8L Stats - Do openly Female authors get higher ratings than openly Male authors?

[8letters]

Short answer: doesn't look that way:

The above is the average story rating based on stories published from 8/30 to 10/6, with the stats taken 28 days after they were published.

But when you talk about Literotica stories, you always have to mention the category:

I've highlighted the outliers.

Digging a little deeper into the data:
* BDSM - Author Firefly_Writing pulls up the Other average
* Celebrities & Fan Fiction - Author Ohzee44 really pulls up the Female average. The two Male authors with the most stories both pull down the Male average
* Erotic Horror - One of the two stories by Other authors has a 3.5 rating, pulling down the Other average. Small data set problems
* Exhibitionist & Voyeur - Only two stories by Other authors, so probably small data set problems
* Group Sex - Only one story by an Other author, so probably small data set problems
* Illustrated - Not a lot of stories, so probably small data set problems
* Interracial Love - Author Samuelx pulls down the Male average
* Lesbian Sex - There's not one or two authors pulling down the Male average. It's not all men as there is a story by a male author with a 4.82 rating and another with a 4.87 rating
* Letters & Transcripts - Not a lot of stories, so probably small data set problems
* Loving Wives - There's a Female author who has the most LW stories published in that time window by any author by a wide margin, and her stories have a very low average rating
* Romance - Author Kae_Bright really pulls up the Other average
* Sci-Fi & Fantasy - No one author setting the Other average
* Toys & Masturbation - Not a lot of stories, but no Male or Female author has more than one story, so it could be a trend or it could be a small data set problem

 

[MillieDynamite]

I'd say it is determined more by how the reader perceives the story and not what sex they think the writer is. I have had only one person say how it excites them that a woman wrote the story.

 

[Euphony]

Time travel's impossible you say?

Why I can go to the 1300s with just a click of a button.

 

[MillieDynamite]

You're in the 1300s now?

Time travel's impossible you say?

Why I can go to the 1300s with just a click of a button.

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[Smuttyandfun]

I have had readers inquiring about my gender, but I don't think not knowing matters to my ratings. If they like something I've written, I don't think they worry much about whether a man or a woman wrote it.

 

[StillStunned]

I have had readers inquiring about my gender, but I don't think not knowing matters to my ratings. If they like something I've written, I don't think they worry much about whether a man or a woman wrote it.

When I first started posting here - a series of strokers (since deleted) about a Goddess of Love, told from her male lover's point of view - I had several PMs from male members clearly looking to make a "connection", even though I thought it was pretty obvious from my writings that I was a straight male.

 

[lc69hunter]

The LW category does not surprise me. Very few women write BTB stuff, and the author that you mentioned gets raged at by the misogynist trolls on a regular basis for not doing so. She actually is a very good writer.

 

[8letters]

When I first started posting here - a series of strokers (since deleted) about a Goddess of Love, told from her male lover's point of view - I had several PMs from male members clearly looking to make a "connection", even though I thought it was pretty obvious from my writings that I was a straight male.

I have gotten several comments where the person said that they assumed that I was a woman from my writing, and those comments are always written on stories with a first-person male POV. Such comments always make me wonder.

 

[Altissimus]

I write quite a lot of first person female POV, and try to do so in a way that appeals to women. I could add 'as well as men' to the end of that sentence, but I don't feel I need to; I think when it comes to erotica, generally speaking women are more discerning than men.

* Lesbian Sex - There's not one or two authors pulling down the Male average. It's not all men as there is a story by a male author with a 4.82 rating and another with a 4.87 rating

Yeah, it got bombed heavily after the contest results. Quelle surprise.

 

[Victoria14xs]

A more interesting delve might be first person perspective, male vs female.
Not something that easily lends itself to statistical analysis though...

 

[8letters]

A more interesting delve might be first person perspective, male vs female.
Not something that easily lends itself to statistical analysis though...

I'll happily send you a file with the URL's for the 5,585 stories that I have stats for, and you can send me back the kind of perspective each one has.

 

[lovecraft68]

A lot of men think I'm a woman because I do a lot of female POV.

I have no delusions that I write an amazing female, but have more of a belief men want to think their story is written by a woman in just a thong writing one handed while the other hand is between her legs. This same breed would be horrified if anything a man wrote turned them on...might give them the gay.

 

[Victoria14xs]

I'll happily send you a file with the URL's for the 5,585 stories that I have stats for, and you can send me back the kind of perspective each one has.

As tempting an offer as that is…

 

[alohadave]

I'll happily send you a file with the URL's for the 5,585 stories that I have stats for, and you can send me back the kind of perspective each one has.

Send it my way, I'll plug away at it.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Send it my way, I'll plug away at it.

You might've already come up with something, but it should be possible to ID the first-person stories reasonably accurately by counting how often "I" and "me" appear as stand-alone words outside quotes.

 

[alohadave]

You might've already come up with something, but it should be possible to ID the first-person stories reasonably accurately by counting how often "I" and "me" appear as stand-alone words outside quotes.

Good tip.

 

[Victoria14xs]

Send it my way, I'll plug away at it.

If you pull this off by somehow semi-automating it, that’d be impressive.
If you grind through it manually, you deserve an award! My advice would be…wave off, wave off, abort, abort!!!

 

[HeyAll]

From what I hear, they definetly get a ton more creepy emails.

I'd gotten sexually curious emails before from people thinking I was a woman and I'd heard that from former collaborators. When I used to cowrite stories with a woman, she'd forward me a few of the emails (since the feedback was considered mutual).

 

[overwatcher]

I have a female friend who helps bring a level of believability to my female characters, you know suggestions like: 'You dumbass no woman with a brain-cell between her ears is ever going to say/do/act (pick one) anything like that' then she's promptly tells me what I'd meant to write.
Well genius that I am I attached thanks for her input. About that time emails arrived asking for her contact details.
In case you're wondering - no, I didn't think it through. As it turns out telling her what was going on wasn't that bright an idea either, resulting in another 'You dumbass' lecture.
So, a lot more worldly wise now I no longer attach a thanks. Oh and no she doesn't write on Lit, prefers Chyoa and poetry.

 

[Trionyx]

The initial post has some interesting data as long as we recognize some potential limitations. How many writers lie about their gender on their bios? I would suggest more than a few female writers claim ‘male’ so as to avoid harassment.

 

[RainyDayPen]

I find that interesting. I have one strange thing to add. Once I said no to a guy and didn't want to talk. Even though I wasn't rude about it at all, I suddenly got a slew of 1-bombs on my previous work. I have no PROOF. I'm just saying, what a coincidence, heh. I think it's a very, very double edged sword to be openly female.

 

[Stimtheone]

While I am aware that on... other websites... people might shower women with praise not for the quality of their work but for... other reasons... but I am quite unsure how you would even KNOW. Okay, maybe there's the profile, but nobody goes to see if the author is a woman before adding their response. I think the site does not give upfront information on that.

So, really... I don't even know how it could happen unless the author comes and says in the first part "Oh, I'm a woman, if you give me a good review I might look you up" or something.

 

[8letters]

While I am aware that on... other websites... people might shower women with praise not for the quality of their work but for... other reasons... but I am quite unsure how you would even KNOW. Okay, maybe there's the profile, but nobody goes to see if the author is a woman before adding their response. I think the site does not give upfront information on that.

So, really... I don't even know how it could happen unless the author comes and says in the first part "Oh, I'm a woman, if you give me a good review I might look you up" or something.

Before I started posting analysis by declared gender, that's what I thought. But apparently a significant number of readers do look up the biography of the author of a story. My analysis only discussed Male vs Female vs Other, but Unidentified regularly does the poorest in a category. For example, Romance. Why would not disclosing your gender result in a lower rating? I should dig deeper, but nothing brilliant is coming to mind as to how to dig deeper.

 

[alohadave]

You might've already come up with something, but it should be possible to ID the first-person stories reasonably accurately by counting how often "I" and "me" appear as stand-alone words outside quotes.

The first couple paragraphs work pretty well. With 6000 files, I'm not spending too much time manually analyzing them.

It's going to take a while. Interestingly, the first 10-15 that I checked, almost all of them were 1st person.