Most/Least read categories?

Seanathon

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When I joined Literotica last month, I stumbled across a post (or maybe it was an article?) that ranked each of the categories from most to least read.

I've unsuccessfully tried to use the Search function to find it again but haven't had any luck, and I'm hoping someone can remember (or paste a link) to this post.

I assume the top categories are Incest and Loving Wives, just trying to get an idea on where the rest of the categories fall in terms of readership/views.

Thanks in advance for any assistance!
 
You're right - Incest is indeed the most viewed category here. I'd say 3/4th of the total views come from that category alone. LW is a distant second. I'd say BDSM is third, given the number of stories there.

I would assume Lesbian is next, given the readership of the site is mostly straight male *wink*. Erotic Couplings is another category which gets less views than it should, simply because the average reader comes with a type of story they want to read in mind and go straight there. Erotic Couplings is kinda vague in that regard

Gay, Romance, SciFi and NonHuman have their fixed readership. These readers don't usually overlap and appreciate longer plot driven stories (and vote and comment well).

Erotic Horror, Anal, TS/CD, Novels/Novellas have a smaller readership than the above.

Letters/Transcripts and Chain stories languish at the bottom. Chain stories are usually only read by the writers of the chain.
 
Incest and Loving Wives top the charts.

Below that I would put Anal, Exhibitionist & Voyeur, Mature, Group Sex, Mind Control, and Non-Con & Reluctance.

At the bottom I would have two groups consisting first of Erotic Horror, Humor & Satire, Celebrities, Novels & Novellas, and Non-Erotic.

The second and bottom of the barrel I would say are Chain Stories, Reviews and Essays, How-To, and Letters and Transcripts.

I excluded Audio and Illustrated, but everything else falls somewhere in the middle.

This is all off the top of my head, rather than directly mining the data for actual numbers.

I have a fairly broad range of categories amongst my work, so you can use that for at least some comparison. This is the most recent track from this month:

http://www.darkniciad.com/hotlink_pics/All_3_Names_11_02_13.htm
 
Quick Question:

Which category, would any of you estimate, has the most amount of female readers? (besides nonhuman or sci fi)


And try looking through the Top List if you haven't already:

http://www.literotica.com/top/

You can look at the total reads (30 days, 12 months, all time) and you can click on the individual categories to get an idea of how many votes the stories are doing.
 
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Quick answer. There's no telling here who is a female reader and who isn't. ;)
 
Quick Question:

Which category, would any of you estimate, has the most amount of female readers? (besides nonhuman or sci fi)


And try looking through the Top List if you haven't already:

http://www.literotica.com/top/

You can look at the total reads (30 days, 12 months, all time) and you can click on the individual categories to get an idea of how many votes the stories are doing.

Hard to say. I agree with what Pilot says as in who knows who is pretending to be what, but I am taking that you are curious as to what category is read by the most true females.

Again hard to say. When I started my perception of incest was it would be Male dominated, but it seems there are just as many women and that's because daddy fantasies are as much female as male driven and bro/sis is probably a split

And that is where the problem is in determining an answer. Every category has different facets to it that can appeal to either.

My guess for men would be LW and non con(I am aware many women like to read rape fantasies as well, but many stories there are a little to rape driven to attract that many)

My guess for female would be your guess NH. I have heard there a lot of female readers in GM, but my second pick would be romance, specifically HEA romance.
 
Quick answer. There's no telling here who is a female reader and who isn't. ;)

Indeed. I've had more than one PM that came across as "guy doing a really bad job at pretending to be female" and I'm sure some are better at concealing it.

That said, I think a significant percentage of readers in Lesbian are women IRL, because I and others get a fair bit of feedback on story aspects that probably wouldn't matter to somebody who's just trying to get their rocks off under false pretenses.

(Also, because some people give feedback that's linkable to their RL ID.)
 
Thanks for the replies and information!

I like your spreadsheet Dark, I'm OC for numbers in the same way. I would be curious to see what it looks like sorted by views.

Which of the stats do you take the most pride in: scores, votes, views or faves?
 
Thanks for the replies and information!

I like your spreadsheet Dark, I'm OC for numbers in the same way. I would be curious to see what it looks like sorted by views.

Which of the stats do you take the most pride in: scores, votes, views or faves?

To me, it's a cumulative thing out of all the stats. No one is any specific source of pride or real information about how well the story was received.

You should be able to copy/paste from the page into a spreadsheet and sort by views. Just tried it, and it works in Excel, at least. Of course, you'll have to copy each pen name section and paste them together, eliminating the wrap-up for each pen name.
 
Most = Best ?

There are positives to writing in a less-busy category. Your story stays on the top list longer, and, because they aren't inundated with new stories every few minutes, readers, I think, appreciate the contribution to their category of choice.

I wrote my first mind-control story for the Halloween costume and it got a lot of readership because there just isn't that much in that category.
 
There are positives to writing in a less-busy category. Your story stays on the top list longer, and, because they aren't inundated with new stories every few minutes, readers, I think, appreciate the contribution to their category of choice.

I agree.

I wrote a story for Erotic Horror and I got notably fewer views than I get in my usual stomping grounds Loving Wives, but the score was higher and the feedback has been consistently positive. In Loving Wives the feedback indicates a more polarised reader base (some love it while others tell me to crawl under a rock and die).

I suspect it has to do with Loving Wife being a very broad category - it covers all types of marital play which could be cuckolding, infidelity, revenge, threesomes, risky sex in public places, relationship crisis and lots of other stuff. A person who starts reading a story in Loving Wives never knows for sure what he or she is getting, and if you happen to hate gay sex and the protagonist in the story suddenly turns out to be gay you'll get pissed and slam the story in the scores and comments.

Dissatisfaction happen's when theres a discrepancy between what you expect and what you get. In Erotic Horror you're more likely to know exactly what you're in for and thus be more satisfied with the result, I think...
 
Quick Question:

Which category, would any of you estimate, has the most amount of female readers? (besides nonhuman or sci fi)

I would have to guess out of sheer numbers that there would be the most female readers in one of the mega-categories, like incest or LW. But if you are looking at percentages, I would have to guess (perhaps) gay male.

There are fewer female authors, but those tend to be more prolific. And only a few of the really big names are completely and non-ambiguously male. Like Robcub32, Pilot, and DW_Simon.
 
And only a few of the really big names are completely and non-ambiguously male. Like Robcub32, Pilot, and DW_Simon.

And you know that how? Cause they say so? :rolleyes:

I know a few girls in real life who are posing as guys on the internet because they want to interact with the community without having to fend off sex-hungry geeks on a constant basis...
 
And you know that how? Cause they say so? :rolleyes:

I know a few girls in real life who are posing as guys on the internet because they want to interact with the community without having to fend off sex-hungry geeks on a constant basis...

I know for sure that Pilot and Robcub are dudes... I'm not so sure about DW.

You're right, there is no way we can tell for real...

But on a site like this, I find that there is a slightly different mentality than say, 4chan, or reddit, or porn sites. This site isn't about anonymity, it's about finding someone (anyone) to acknowledge your work. People here are looking for recognition.

So other than the whole pen-name, secret-identity thing, a lot of people are just here, mostly telling the truth.

I write in GM, so other than the random perv who finds some of my ancient posts from the personals board, I don't really have the smexy PM problem.
 
I know for sure that Pilot and Robcub are dudes... I'm not so sure about DW.

You're right, there is no way we can tell for real...

But on a site like this, I find that there is a slightly different mentality than say, 4chan, or reddit, or porn sites. This site isn't about anonymity, it's about finding someone (anyone) to acknowledge your work. People here are looking for recognition.

So other than the whole pen-name, secret-identity thing, a lot of people are just here, mostly telling the truth.

I write in GM, so other than the random perv who finds some of my ancient posts from the personals board, I don't really have the smexy PM problem.

David Mamet says artists crave truth and communion at the same time resisting it as much as possible. He says writers don't wanna know that there is no communion and real excellence. All the best have to offer is a slightly improved McDonalds menu.
 
Quick Question:

Which category, would any of you estimate, has the most amount of female readers? (besides nonhuman or sci fi)


And try looking through the Top List if you haven't already:

http://www.literotica.com/top/

You can look at the total reads (30 days, 12 months, all time) and you can click on the individual categories to get an idea of how many votes the stories are doing.

After those two categories, I would say Noncon/Reluctance. I'm finding that there is a huge female readership there, but they are interested in a certain type of story. They like a young female; an older, handsome, and very experienced male with a dark side; romantic entanglements; and an HEA ending.

That same readership also goes for Noncon/Reluctance stories with a sci-fi or fantasy theme.

It's the same audience that made 50 Shades a huge success.
 
After those two categories, I would say Noncon/Reluctance. I'm finding that there is a huge female readership there, but they are interested in a certain type of story. They like a young female; an older, handsome, and very experienced male with a dark side; romantic entanglements; and an HEA ending.

That same readership also goes for Noncon/Reluctance stories with a sci-fi or fantasy theme.

It's the same audience that made 50 Shades a huge success.

I know that an older experienced man who actually knows a thing or two about sex and seduction is literally the exact opposite of what most women my age are getting.

Which might be why it's a fantasy.
 
I know that an older experienced man who actually knows a thing or two about sex and seduction is literally the exact opposite of what most women my age are getting.

Which might be why it's a fantasy.

Wham, Bam, and not even a thank you, ma'am, is not good. Youth is so wasted on the young and inexperienced. :rolleyes:
 
I would have to guess out of sheer numbers that there would be the most female readers in one of the mega-categories, like incest or LW. But if you are looking at percentages, I would have to guess (perhaps) gay male.

There are fewer female authors, but those tend to be more prolific. And only a few of the really big names are completely and non-ambiguously male. Like Robcub32, Pilot, and DW_Simon.


Well, Rob is a guy. I know him in real life. Plus, he was at GRL this past October. Now, having said that, there are so many professional writers in M/M who are female and have male pen names. Won't be seeing them at places like GRL. ;)
 
Well, Rob is a guy. I know him in real life. Plus, he was at GRL this past October. Now, having said that, there are so many professional writers in M/M who are female and have male pen names. Won't be seeing them at places like GRL. ;)

"Pilot"/sr71plt confirms as male, but, to the point of the thread, I'll note that I write under nearly as many female-name accounts (and perspectives/genres) here as male. So I'll stand pat on there being no way of identifying, statistically, male vs. female writers or readers on this Web site. All attempts to do so are just conjecture constructed on sand.
 
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