An observation

[bearlee]

that was a fear i had when i first tossed about the idea of risking putting up pictures: what if no one bothers to look? what if no one says anything? (and, in the back of my mind, what if they tell me to cut this shit out?).
i've noticed how men don't get the same number of views & replies as women since i first came around. i don't know about it being fair or not, does it even matter? i take the pictures and post them more for me than for anyone else to appreciate; getting any kind words at all is just sort of the icing on the cake i guess. it makes me feel all hot and blushy and turned-on, but i think it is a secondary attraction to posting pictures.
did i make any sense? i have no idea if i even got out what i was trying to say....

Any sense-probably not Actually though, if you go by downloads I'd say you've done pretty well-of course I'm a guy so I don't look-just like the thought of Akronites being around the board

 

[pinkstarfish]

Okay, so I can't just sit back and observe any more

I noticed something about this myself. As the MALE half of SuperFunCouple, I am all but un-noticed. True, we have posted MANY more pictures of The Princess than myself, but in the "couples" shots, and in the few of just myself we get next to no response to any --ahem-- part of me, and I'm doing okay for myself down there.

By the same token, both of us expected as much, and here's our reasoning. Men were built, designed, for utility... we're strong, beefy and not much to look at. Women are built for beauty (now before anyone gets offended, I'm speaking in generalizations, there are always exceptions to both rules - and no, women's ONLY purpose is not to be beautiful, it's just a nice perk that comes with the job). Women have nicer lines, nicer shapes. Men are square and rough, women soft and curvy. There's no mystery in why women get more attention, they're simply more beautiful than men.

So that's my humble opinion

- The Guy

i agree %100.

 

[LOST&FOUND]

I notice this too. In my thread I try to vary the types of pics that I take and will even take requests but I still get hardly any replies. A little encouragement can go along way. The more encouraged I am the more likely I am to post. But when my thread hardly gets any replies I get a little discouraged and don't post any new pictures for a while.

 

[kittykateater]

I agree with emptyness, I posted my photos mostly to feel good about myself, and the 6 or 8 ladies who seemed to really enjoy them, and kept asking for more, were just the icing on the cake.

I disagree that the male anatomy is less attractive to a woman than the female anatomy is to a man. The other night we were watching a movie, where this boyfriend spent the night and the woman's son busted in on them, and the boy told the man to get dressed because "Mommy doesn't want to see YOU naked!" and my fiance laughed at Hollywood's constant portrayal that women have no interest in sex or nudity, telling me she wants to see ME naked every chance she gets! And that's why it doesn't bother me so much if my pics aren't as widely appreciated as pics of women: because I always have my one-woman cheering section right here at home! And that's what matters most!

Nevertheless, when I post picture after picture with no feedback, it gets a little discouraging.

Then again, there had been NO activity on one of my photo threads for about 3 weeks, and today, out of the blue, I heard from a lady how much my pics on that thread were turning her on, and how much she wishes she had a man handy to help her out. So you just never know! Reading such a comment out of the blue definitely brightened my day; intellectually I know it shouldn't matter what strangers think of how I look naked, but psychologically and emotionally it feels GOOD to have someone tell you that you look sexy and desirable.

I also disagree that men right off jump into showing their cock. My latest (fourrth) photo series had me in boxers, then peeling down to a G-string, then showing my chest, my legs, my back, and my ass, and my cock didn't even make an appearance until the 17th photo. And THAT'S when I started getting the most feedback, too! Before my cock showed up in the pics, hardly anybody bothered to encourage my posting. Do you know how difficult and disheartening it is to keep posting through 17 pics with almost zero feedback? Just a couple of words from any lady, "I like, show me more" can go a long way to encourage those of us brave enough to show it all here.

A woman can post one pic in just her underwear and generate 30 or 40 replies before she has to post another pic to satisfy the male hunger, and can milk it through 100 or more posts before everyone insists she show us her pussy. A guy can post 10 or 12 pics before any woman bothers to encourage him, and gets few responses until that cock comes out.

I don't mind that ladies prefer to encourage other ladies, but when I see 200 women have looked at my pic or ANY guy's pic, and not one has posted that she appreciates it, well...why not? What's wrong with you ladies?

Hint: if you are this passive about showing your appreciation, guys are going to get turned off fast. What guy wants a woman to lie there passively, not responding? A moan, a groan, an "Oh baby!" works wonders to keep a guy's interest up, whether it's posting pic or while loving you. Be an active participant! Guys need positive feedback and encouragement every bit as you ladies do!

There, I've said my piece, I relinquish the floor to others now...



from KK

 

[bearlee]

LOL I screwed this up big time-the stuff with quotes are my comments and the rest is from the previous post-guess I had to do what I wasn't going to do and come back in to edit-but only to that extent

I agree with emptyness, I posted my photos mostly to feel good about myself, and the 6 or 8 ladies who seemed to really enjoy them, and kept asking for more, were just the icing on the cake.

"Which really is the best reason to post, but I suspect people post for the enjoyment of others."

I disagree that the male anatomy is less attractive to a woman than the female anatomy is to a man.

"Difficult for me as a male to answer this one, but over and over again all I hear is the exact opposite."


telling me she wants to see ME naked every chance she gets! And that's why it doesn't bother me so much if my pics aren't as widely appreciated as pics of women: because I always have my one-woman cheering section right here at home! And that's what matters most!

"So very true!"

Nevertheless, when I post picture after picture with no feedback, it gets a little discouraging.

"Probably everybody gets discouraged by this-I do. But if you look at the threads and click the number of posts, a box will pop up and tell you the name of each person that has posted and how many times. We have as I write this 1870 posts-alot of which is chat-and well over 800 are mine and when you add Dawn in, it climbs to around 1000. Most threads which a high number of posts are like this. Sexywench has contributed to almost 50% of her posts herself, Cateyes the same and the list goes on. Some exceptions are nightnurse with just 73 of 260 being from her and one right now with the highest views per post by kirr. In fact for her, she's only posted 22 times of the 107 shown. Another exception, but not by tons, is luvrgurl and turberboy's combined thread for her. High number of views per post but between the two of them, almost one-half of the posts come from them and she is really one nice looking lady. Even My Queen of the Damned is interesting. Two posters of pics, but one is fourth on the list. They have two guys that have responded more to that thread than Ozraven and I think it's probably one of the best on here. So yeah, many of the threads featuring females run 30-50 or more views per post, but they're almost posting alot keeping it on the front page or page two. (Again, these numbers will be different by the time I finish)"

Reading such a comment out of the blue definitely brightened my day; intellectually I know it shouldn't matter what strangers think of how I look naked, but psychologically and emotionally it feels GOOD to have someone tell you that you look sexy and desirable.

"Probably does, but the most important audience is your wife you said and I would agree she should be."

I also disagree that men right off jump into showing their cock. My latest (fourrth) photo series had me in boxers, then peeling down to a G-string, then showing my chest, my legs, my back, and my ass, and my cock didn't even make an appearance until the 17th photo. And THAT'S when I started getting the most feedback, too! Before my cock showed up in the pics, hardly anybody bothered to encourage my posting. Do you know how difficult and disheartening it is to keep posting through 17 pics with almost zero feedback? Just a couple of words from any lady, "I like, show me more" can go a long way to encourage those of us brave enough to show it all here.

"Not sure on the first part because I don't think I went through it, but I believe you. But, being discourged almost zero feedback. Yeah, it can be. I happen to think Dawn is the most beautiful woman in the world, but many times there is no feedback even though folks may be looking. So while there may not be comments, since there really are so few anyway, I guess if what I'm hoping for is people to enjoy the beauty I see in her, then I shouldn't get discouraged."

A woman can post one pic in just her underwear and generate 30 or 40 replies before she has to post another pic to satisfy the male hunger, and can milk it through 100 or more posts before everyone insists she show us her pussy. A guy can post 10 or 12 pics before any woman bothers to encourage him, and gets few responses until that cock comes out.

"Kind of answered this above-I think the numbers you are using are a fallacy for the ladies. Plus, you referred to emptyness-his is doing very well."

I don't mind that ladies prefer to encourage other ladies, but when I see 200 women have looked at my pic or ANY guy's pic, and not one has posted that she appreciates it, well...why not? What's wrong with you ladies?

"They'll have to answer this one-can't speak for them but I don't know that women are encouraging other women to look at other women. I still just think they prefer it."

Hint: if you are this passive about showing your appreciation, guys are going to get turned off fast. What guy wants a woman to lie there passively, not responding? A moan, a groan, an "Oh baby!" works wonders to keep a guy's interest up, whether it's posting pic or while loving you. Be an active participant! Guys need positive feedback and encouragement every bit as you ladies do!

"I don't get it. We're not in bed here, we're looking at pictures. Like I say, I think luvrgurl for example is really hot, but I don't think I've ever moaned looking at her picture or started jacking off to it. I have sent a comment because I liked a picture, not always. Would I moan and groan if I was in bed with her-apples and oranges now!"

There, I've said my piece, I relinquish the floor to others now...




from KK

I'm done except to add what I probably said in an earlier post-I have to believe there are far more men coming to the threads than women and I just have to believe most of them are here to look at women. No doubt I left stuff out and I'm not going back to edit this. To the guys that post, have fun with it, enjoy that people are looking and smile to yourself when you get a response, even if it's only one

 

[bearlee]

I'm done except to add what I probably said in an earlier post-I have to believe there are far more men coming to the threads than women and I just have to believe most of them are here to look at women. No doubt I left stuff out and I'm not going back to edit this. To the guys that post, have fun with it, enjoy that people are looking and smile to yourself when you get a response, even if it's only one

Boy, I sure screwed up that post-can't tell which are the orginally quote and which are my comments. Maybe I will edit to at least put quotes around what I wrote-sorry

Okay, I went back and tried to fix it some-but I'm not going back to see if I did it right

 

[Camille Savage]

This is an interesting topic. I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but for the most part (and I know there are exceptions) I think men are more visual than women.

It would be interesting to find out the percentage of men to women that are registered on the Lit site. Is there a way to find this out?

Bearlee, I had never noticed clicking on the number of posts to see who has posted on the thread and how many posts they have posted. I have contributed about 45% of the posts on my thread, which only further proves my theory that I was a posting slut.

 

[bearlee]

This is an interesting topic. I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but for the most part (and I know there are exceptions) I think men are more visual than women.

It would be interesting to find out the percentage of men to women that are registered on the Lit site. Is there a way to find this out?

Bearlee, I had never noticed clicking on the number of posts to see who has posted on the thread and how many posts they have posted. I have contributed about 45% of the posts on my thread, which only further proves my theory that I was a posting slut.

Well, I've looked at the pics and while you may be a "posting slut"-I must save a very beautiful one I especially like how the first page is set up-gives a nice idea of what's to follow although a person could spend there time on the page and be more than satisfied Actually, maybe most of them are there-really like your strip on geocities and although dressed, love the shots of your face with the hair falling over it-anybody that hasn't seen it should take a look like right now You're posts are about average, roughly one half, a little less, but it's really the only way to sustain more than 200 pages although it's a testament to you that with all the pics you have on page 1 that people keep posting replies-of course you do something else and that's respond with more than little blurbs. There's a sexual banter back and forth so of course we keep coming back. Now I have to post something there so you'll play with me too

 

[bearlee]

Unofficial survey

"I also disagree that men right off jump into showing their cock."

Don't know, I looked at the first page just now and 5 of 8 of the guys started out with a cock shot.

 

[LOST&FOUND]

Re: Unofficial survey

"I also disagree that men right off jump into showing their cock."

Don't know, I looked at the first page just now and 5 of 8 of the guys started out with a cock shot.

Thinking back maybe that was not the best way to start off.

 

[bearlee]

Re: Re: Unofficial survey

Thinking back maybe that was not the best way to start off.

I don't know-did a quick search-you've only accounted for one-half of the posts on your thread which isn't bad at all. Another male thread I took a quick look at is Meta's back and he's got tons of views and the percentage of overall posts by him is low-and it doesn't look like he started that way-so who knows

 

[LOST&FOUND]

Re: Re: Re: Unofficial survey

I don't know-did a quick search-you've only accounted for one-half of the posts on your thread which isn't bad at all. Another male thread I took a quick look at is Meta's back and he's got tons of views and the percentage of overall posts by him is low-and it doesn't look like he started that way-so who knows

All in all I guess I am not doing that bad considering the number of active female posters.

 

[Massive Grooves]

I may be wrong, but I also feel that if there's a recurring set of female posters, other women are less likely to chime in. They may look and follow the thread, but they are less likely to actually say something.

 

[N8Dreams]

easy to answer. The female body is more beautiful than male.

 

[cb_63]

I'm fairly new to this posting thing, but I've had my handiwork on the board quite a lot. My wife has posted quite a few threads and commented on many, many others.

After saying that, I think there are many contributing factors to the number of posts on a male thread, and most have been covered here already: male to male affection isn't as accepted as female to female (how many teenage boys have you ever seen dancing together?), males assume there dicks are their main sex organ and throw it out there with minimal results (how many threads have posts from men with comments like "Nice cock-I wouldn't mind tasting that"?) and many times, the man is the one BEHIND the camera.

Still and all, I truly believe it's because (as a whole) women are more adventurous, sexually, than men are. I always thought I was rather forward in my attitude towards sex until Luvinit got started on here. Then I realized that I knew very little about what really excites women. But, man, am I enjoying the schooling!

 

[LOST&FOUND]

I myself plan on discovering the secret to getting the ladies to post.

 

[kittykateater]

I think I finally found the secret to more female participation on male naked-pics threads. In my thread titled "Audition" I posted my pics with a story line that I was auditioning for a job as a male stripper for a lot of hot-looking women who co-own the club. I then posted pics of me doing a very slow strip-tease. This let a lot of women comment on the photos and the action, they could pretend to be the women who are judging the audition, they helped guide the direction of the story and the photos. They could pretend they were there with me, cheering me on, helping me undress, their mouths and hands helping me harden-up for them. The thread has been VERY successful, because it lets a lot of women participate and use their imagination, instead of just "hey, here's a pic of my dick, whaddya think?" like so many guys seem to do.

In other words, be creative, let others respond creatively, and the thread seems to do very well. Over 1000 have viewed this thread, and of the 100 or so posts, only about half are mine: with a different photo of my slow strip-tease in each of my nearly 50 posts.

Something other guys might want to think about if they want the ladies to notice and comment on their pics.

Have a great Thanksgiving, everyone. Good night!

KK

 

[ariadne]

I think I finally found the secret to more female participation on male naked-pics threads. In my thread titled "Audition" I posted my pics with a story line that I was auditioning for a job as a male stripper for a lot of hot-looking women who co-own the club. I then posted pics of me doing a very slow strip-tease. This let a lot of women comment on the photos and the action, they could pretend to be the women who are judging the audition, they helped guide the direction of the story and the photos. They could pretend they were there with me, cheering me on, helping me undress, their mouths and hands helping me harden-up for them. The thread has been VERY successful, because it lets a lot of women participate and use their imagination, instead of just "hey, here's a pic of my dick, whaddya think?" like so many guys seem to do.

In other words, be creative, let others respond creatively, and the thread seems to do very well. Over 1000 have viewed this thread, and of the 100 or so posts, only about half are mine: with a different photo of my slow strip-tease in each of my nearly 50 posts.

Something other guys might want to think about if they want the ladies to notice and comment on their pics.

Have a great Thanksgiving, everyone. Good night!

KK

This is not ariadne(Dawn) but Lee using her computer. I don't follow the male threads but I started with this one and the formula you used for the audition did seem to work including your handling the spats and working them into the story line-it's been a good job. I remember a female doing something similar and t seemed to work well for her too. (bearlee)