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Demographics of Sexual Fantasy

 
Face Palmer
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Warning: This post includes discussion of mature themes. If you are a minor, a prude, or at work, turn away now.

Analyzing the authorship of 290K erotic stories

The act of sex is an essential element of life. Nearly all of Earth's plants and animals owe their existence to sexual reproduction. For (most) humans, sex is an intensely pleasurable activity. Desire for sex motivates, directly or indirectly, a wide range of important social, cultural, and economic behaviors.

Despite the importance of sexual activity to human life, shockingly little academic research is devoted to the subject and much of that is epidemiological in nature. Given the commonality and centrality of sex, it seems obvious that a scientific understanding of its psychological aspects would be an excellent investment in increasing human happiness.

Unfortunately, in many human societies sex is still to some degree taboo. Here in the US, half the population seems eager not to admit it happens and most of the rest fear offending such people. As a result, candid discussion, never mind research, of sex remains very much on the national backburner. Sex researchers are few in number, poorly funded, and frequently ridiculed.

While my own primary research interests are at best tangentially related, this blog post represents an effort on my behalf to expand what we collectively know about sex. Using Python and Beautiful Soup, I scraped ~300,000 erotic stories from Literotica.com, a popular site for sharing self-authored pieces. Each of these stores belonged to one of several categories discussed below. I removed entries from a number of non-story or catch-all categories, resulting in a final set of 23. I also scraped the public profiles of the authors (~65K) of these stories, obtaining a variety of useful self-reported information from many of them including sex, age, sexual orientation, and relationships status.

[link to markallenthornton.com]

Lots of interesting charts
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bump
"The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title."

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
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Indeed it is interesting.

Do you think that the results could be skewed from user profiles being lies?
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Indeed it is interesting.

Do you think that the results could be skewed from user profiles being lies?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59129123


The data was not derived from user profiles, but from self-authorized erotic publications of (hobby) authors:

Using Python and Beautiful Soup, I scraped ~300,000 erotic stories from Literotica.com, a popular site for sharing self-authored pieces
"The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title."

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
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Indeed it is interesting.

Do you think that the results could be skewed from user profiles being lies?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59129123


The data was not derived from user profiles, but from self-authorized erotic publications of (hobby) authors:

Using Python and Beautiful Soup, I scraped ~300,000 erotic stories from Literotica.com, a popular site for sharing self-authored pieces
 Quoting: Face Palmer


How do you know if the author was male or female?

That's why I thought you used user profiles from literotica.com.

Where did you obtain the topics? Is it the frequency of words appearing in the stories?
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How do you know if the author was male or female?
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Oh yeah, right. There could be male users using female names and vice versa.


That's why I thought you used user profiles from literotica.com.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59129123


It's not me who did this, its the guy running the website at the OPS link.


Where did you obtain the topics? Is it the frequency of words appearing in the stories?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59129123


I think so
"The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title."

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
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How do you know if the author was male or female?
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Oh yeah, right. There could be male users using female names and vice versa.


That's why I thought you used user profiles from literotica.com.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59129123


It's not me who did this, its the guy running the website at the OPS link.


Where did you obtain the topics? Is it the frequency of words appearing in the stories?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59129123


I think so
 Quoting: Face Palmer


I see.

Thanks for the link.

Maybe other posters here are too scared to be involved, don't want everyone to know they are sex pervert.

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How do you know if the author was male or female?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59129123


Oh yeah, right. There could be male users using female names and vice versa.


That's why I thought you used user profiles from literotica.com.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59129123


It's not me who did this, its the guy running the website at the OPS link.


Where did you obtain the topics? Is it the frequency of words appearing in the stories?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59129123


I think so
 Quoting: Face Palmer


I see.

Thanks for the link.

Maybe other posters here are too scared to be involved, don't want everyone to know they are sex pervert.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59129123


Its too early for GLP.
"The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title."

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
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Be Advised...

The Author of this "Study"
"""""
Mark is a Psychology Ph.D. Candidate in the Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at Harvard University.
"""""

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"Harvard" is notorious for the most Toxic, Poisonous, Deadly, Heinous, Sociopaths, Psychopaths, Maligants, Megalomaniacs, and Demon Worshipers in the History of the United States.

Be advised that anything with "Harvard" attached to it is likely a Psy-Op, or Mind-Control program, directed at its "Victim".

Harvard synonymous with "Darwinian Selection" practices to produce the most effective Maniacal Sociopaths possible.

For ordinary "normal" people...

Read this with a healthy amount of skepticism, and fear.
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"Meanwhile younger women seem to have the strongest preference for Interracial Love"
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Be Advised...

The Author of this "Study"
"""""
Mark is a Psychology Ph.D. Candidate in the Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at Harvard University.
"""""

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"Harvard" is notorious for the most Toxic, Poisonous, Deadly, Heinous, Sociopaths, Psychopaths, Maligants, Megalomaniacs, and Demon Worshipers in the History of the United States.

Be advised that anything with "Harvard" attached to it is likely a Psy-Op, or Mind-Control program, directed at its "Victim".

Harvard synonymous with "Darwinian Selection" practices to produce the most effective Maniacal Sociopaths possible.

For ordinary "normal" people...

Read this with a healthy amount of skepticism, and fear.
.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1133050


Or this could be a personal hobby and he wanted to release the results while trying to "convince" people to read it.

As with any scientific conclusion, test it again and see if you arrive at the same conclusion.
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Be Advised...

The Author of this "Study"
"""""
Mark is a Psychology Ph.D. Candidate in the Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at Harvard University.
"""""

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"Harvard" is notorious for the most Toxic, Poisonous, Deadly, Heinous, Sociopaths, Psychopaths, Maligants, Megalomaniacs, and Demon Worshipers in the History of the United States.

Be advised that anything with "Harvard" attached to it is likely a Psy-Op, or Mind-Control program, directed at its "Victim".

Harvard synonymous with "Darwinian Selection" practices to produce the most effective Maniacal Sociopaths possible.

For ordinary "normal" people...

Read this with a healthy amount of skepticism, and fear.
.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1133050


Or this could be a personal hobby and he wanted to release the results while trying to "convince" people to read it.

As with any scientific conclusion, test it again and see if you arrive at the same conclusion.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59129123


Go ahead
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
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I'm surprised the incest category is as popular as it seems to be. Yuck, just yuck scared
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Unfortunately, in many human societies sex is still to some degree taboo. Here in the US, half the population seems eager not to admit it happens and most of the rest fear offending such people. As a result, candid discussion, never mind research, of sex remains very much on the national backburner. Sex researchers are few in number, poorly funded, and frequently ridiculed.

 Quoting: Face Palmer


I don't know about the rest of his blog, but I'm not gonna bother, because that is just about the dumbest statement I have ever heard about the national conversation on sex in America. We are inundated, daily, with sex on TV in all forms. It is constantly discussed in every media we have, including here, ad nauseum. I don't know about research projects' but really, what else do we need to research about sex? Everybody does it. Everybody wants to be doing it. Pretty much everybody knows how. We teach it to kindergartners in a lot of places, for God's sake. If this guy is not getting enough talk about sex in his life, he needs to turn on CNN, or the Discovery Channel, or TLC, or MTV, or VH1, or CMT, or Showtime, or HBO, or CBS, or NBC, or ABC, or Fox, or E! for three minutes, or just make one accidental click on ANY website known to man.

If sex researchers are mocked or poorly funded within the scientific community, it's because they're studying something that has already been studied to death, and are probably just horny bastards looking for female test subjects to tell them lots of dirty stories. And it wouldn't be hard. I could put out a Craigslist ad and have hundreds of liberated college-age women looking to tell all their stories for "science," and it wouldn't cost me, or the taxpayers, a dime.

Last Edited by Revbo™ on 01/23/2015 10:01 AM
John 8:32

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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I always did like that site. hf





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