Trust me, I had less sex than you
Even Beavis and Butt-head get more than me, and they are cartoon characters.
My primary search strings were "sheepsex", "funky chicken" and "she-male".
This was before my site even remotely had anything to do with any "real" adult stuff, but just so my audience wouldn't be dissapointed I started working it into the site.
This was before I had a blog, too... now that I'm blogging, I'm aiming for some over-the-hill funny search strings.
Like the size of my um... male reproductive organs and stuff like that.
And yeah, spamming would be bad for search engine placement.
Also, try to get your link in places that are related to what you're catering to.
An example of that:
If the blog is about the many uses of butter and chocolatesauce, getting a link on a major butter-producer's site (or chocolate sauce-producer's) would help search-engine placement (at least on Google, I kinda lost track of how the others do), while having your link appear on a website that caters to people who want to date a rare breed of midget sheep could end up harming your search-engine placement.
And once you get into Google Pagerank (or IF you get into that, I should say...) then there's also the matter of linking to sites with an appropriate PR.
This is related to getting links on the right kind of sites, but there's more to the pagerank-equation... sometimes I think Google Pagerank means everything, sometimes I think it's just an over-rated and over-bloated thing...