Literotica statistics.

[oOScarletWingsOo]

I feel like that was a tremendous undertaking.

Thanks for taking the time to do the research and post the results.

 

[TimothyM]

The point is that your conclusions about the gender of gay male readers were based on a flawed premise, so they are meaningless rather than entertaining.

I have to agree with sr on the first part of the statement, even though I found i_would's postings on the subject interesting and the subsequent discussions fun.

Maybe you should do an anonymous poll for Lit readers and authors:

1) Do you give a gender on your profile? Y/N

2) Is this info also your real gender? Y/N

3) If NO to 2) are you
a: a man pretending to be a woman
b: a woman pretending to be a man
c: neither of the above

and if you want to relate it to your statistics:

4) what is your favorite category
a: as a reader
b: as an author (if applicable)

Not that there is any guarantee that the people who lie in their profile will tell the truth in the poll even if anonymous - or that you will get a representative sample answering the poll. So I'm not seriously suggesting this as something to be done, just saying in theory it could be fun and the results may be surprising.

 

[sr71plt]

1) Do you give a gender on your profile? Y/N

2) Is this info also your real gender? Y/N

You need to allow for those of us with multiple story-posting accounts. Yes or No doesn't necessarily apply.

 

[TimothyM]

You need to allow for those of us with multiple story-posting accounts. Yes or No doesn't necessarily apply.

Oh yeah - didn't think about that

But I suppose you could just answer once for each account...

Or there could be a choice of giving the number of yes's and no's

Do you give a gender on your profile ? Y_3_ / N_2_ (for a male with five profiles)

Is this info also your real gender ? Y_2_ / N_1_ (for the same male if one of his 'gendered' profiles was female)

So those with just one profile would just write Y_0_ / N_1_ as the answer

Damn, this is more complicated than I thought - but fun to pretend that it could be done. Though I think the information gained would be just as meaningless as the speculations on whether people lie about their gender or not, and whether men or women are more likely to hide or lie as to their gender.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

...Matter of fact, a lot of men write under female names these days, even in hetero cats because there's a perception that women are better writers of erotica.

Not sure I agree with your reasoning about why men write under a woman's pseudonym (which, for the record, I do not do). I think it has more to do with marketing and gender prejudice than skill.

My guess:

A woman might feel more comfortable about reading porn if she see a female name attached to it. She may not feel weird, nasty or sluttish.

Meanwhile, I think believing it was written by a woman adds a thrill for most men.

 

[ja99]

Some time ago I read on these forums the claim that Gay Male story readers are mostly females. Now it's well known that the yaoi manga is mostly read by women, so maybe that's also the case for Gay Male? Well, spoiler: it's not so. However the number of females reading Gay Male stories is surprisingly high.

Anyway I did some work on this, checking out readers and authors.
To get an idea on readership of stories and categories, I looked at the registered users that marked a story Favorite, or that added a Comment to the story. Hereby the results.

1. Scores and hotness of categories.
The average rating of stories on the site is 4.20, the median score is 4.31, meaning half the stories on the site has a score 4.31 or better.

Average story score per category:
Lowest average rating: 3.90 in Illustrated.
Highest average rating: 4.47 in Novels and Novellas

Hotness of stories:
Hotness is the percentage of stories that reaches “Hot” status, i.e. a score of 4.50 or higher.
Of all the stories, 28.5% is “Hot”.
Coldest category: 5.2% “Hot” in Illustrated.
Hottest category: 62.5% “Hot” in Novels and Novellas.


2. Views and comments.

Average views per story per category.
Best read category: Illustrated with on average 328259 views per story.
This is a remarkable number, the second best read is Incest/Taboo with on average 123837 views per story, and the third is Text With Audio with on average 91126 views per story.
Worst read category: Novels and Novellas with on average 10131 views per story.

Average comments per story per category.
Category with lowest number of comments per story: Celebrities with 1.34 comments per story.
Second lowest: Erotic Couplings, 1.48 comments per story.
Third lowest: BDSM with 1.57 comments per story.
Fourth lowest: Group Sex with 1.59 comments per story.

Category with highest number of comments per story: Loving Wives with 12.8 comments per story.
Second highest: How To with 12.5 comments per story.
Third highest: Text With Audio with 12.3 comments per story.

Average number of views that results in a comment on a story per category.
Higher number means less likely to receive comments.
Most actively commenting readers: Non-Erotic with one comment per 1961 views.
Least active commenting readers: Illustrated with one comment per 33467 views.
Loving Wives is 7th with one comment per 5182 views.


3. Sex ratios of readers.
Sex ratio of readers per category. The percentage “Unknown” is the percentage of the total number of readers; the others are the percentage of those that did indicate their gender.

Overall sex ratios of readers.
57.3% male, 41.1% female, 0.8% couple, 0.8% transsexual.
Of the readers, 33.1% did not indicate their gender.

Interesting observations in sex ratios of readers.
Highest ratio of female readers: Non Human
17.1% male, 82.8% female (28% of the total readers gave no answer).

Highest ratio of male readers: Loving Wives.
88.1% male, 8.7% female (33.7% of the readers gave no answer).

Most secretive readers: Mind Control
79.6% male, 18.8% female. Of the total, 46.2% gave no answer for gender.
Does this have to do with the subject matter?

Sex ratio of readers of Gay Male:
54% male, 42.8% female.
This is very close to the site average, going against the expected higher number of female readers (Japanese yaoi manga is known to have a primarily female readership).

Sex ratio of readers of Lesbian Sex (one could call that Gay Female as well of course):
51.4% male, 46.7% female.
Again very close the the site average.


4. Sexual orientation of readers.
This only uses the information from readers that indicate both their gender and their sexual orientation.
Overall sexual orientations:
Males: 86.4% straight, 2.1% gay, 11.4% bi.
Females: 70.1% straight, 2.5% gay, 27.5% bi.
The high number of bisexual females stands out. This gives weight to the typical male fantasy of “all women are bisexual”.

Results for selected categories:
Gay Male:
Males: 13.7% straight, 36.3% gay, 50% bi.
Ratios are not very surprising, with a very strong skew towards gay males and a lesser skew towards bisexual males reading Gay Male stories.
Females: 66.7% straight, 1% gay, 32.4% bi.
These ratios are very close to the overall ratios of the sexual orientation of females on this site. There seems to be no relationship between sexual orientation of a female and her interest in Gay Male stories, except the lowish ratio of gay women.

Lesbian Sex:
Same story as Gay Male but with the genders swapped.
Males: 85% straight, 15% bi, which is close to the site average. No gay males found among the readership, apparently gay males really don't like women.
Females: 9.4% straight, 38.1% gay, 52.5% bi.
Really almost the exact same story as for males reading Gay Male stories. Straight women just don't like fantasising about doing it with another woman.


5. Overall sex ratios authors.
58.8% male
39.1% female
1.02% couple
1.09% transsexual
Of the total number of authors, 10.9% did not indicate their gender.
This ratio is very close to the sex ratio of readers. With the large number of users not indicating their gender and errors due to this being just a sample of the site, one should consider them equal.

Interesting observations in sex ratios of authors.
Highest ratio of female authors: Non Human
26.3% male, 73.7% female (8.3% overall gave no answer).
Also the category with the highest ratio of female readers, though the authors sex ratio less skewed.

Highest ratio of male authors: Gay Male
81.8% male, 16.4% female.
Very different from the sex ratio of this category's readers, which has slightly more females than the site average.

Gender ratio of authors of Lesbian Sex stories:
31.2% male, 68.8% female (11.7% overall gave no answer)
Like Gay Male this is also in strong contrast to the sex ratio of the readership.

Gender ratio of authors of Loving Wives stories:
79.9% male, 12.1% female, 8.1% couple.
Interesting is how many “couple” authors there are in this category. Also notable is how many more female authors there are in this category than female readers, especially if you add the female half of the “couple” too.

Text with Audio is second for ratio of couples as author: 5.9% indicate they're a couple.


6. Sexual orientation of authors.
This only uses the information from authors that indicated both their gender and their sexual orientation. The results:
Males: 86.4% straight, 2.1% gay, 11.4% bi.
Females: 70.1% straight, 2.5% gay, 27.5% bi.
These numbers are virtually identical to the overall readership numbers.

Results for selected categories:
The sexual orientation of the authors and readers of the two gay categories closely matches the orientations of their respective readers, even though the gender ratio is very different between readers and authors.
Gay Male:
Males: 19% straight, 28% gay, 53% bi.
Females: 68% straight, 32% bi.
Both are very close to the sexual orientations of the readerships of these categories.

Lesbian Sex:
Males: 72% straight, 28% bi. Interesting is the relatively high ratio of bisexual male authors of Lesbian Sex stories.
Females: 14% straight, 36% gay, 51% bi. Pretty much identical to the sexual orientation of the readers of these stories.


If you have any other ideas of potential intersting statistics let me know and I will try to create them. Note that the above is likely to contain errors, and is for entertainment only. No serious weight should be given to this information.

Please update this info? It's 2023!

 

[KeithD]

No conclusions can be made on gender-drawn stats on Literotica. There is no control here on who is claiming to be male or female--or not claiming either. Just give up on that one. Nothing relevant/accurate can be drawn from that. You're spinning wheels.

 

[LexxRuthless]

No conclusions can be made on gender-drawn stats on Literotica. There is no control here on who is claiming to be male or female--or not claiming either. Just give up on that one. Nothing relevant/accurate can be drawn from that. You're spinning wheels.

The vast majority of readers on Literotica do not have a Literotica account, never vote, and never comment. Any attempt to ascertain anything about "who reads what" is pure speculation.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Too much data, memory bank full, crash of system, IMMINENT!

 

[SimonDoom]

Too much data, memory bank full, crash of system, IMMINENT!

Sounds like a Star Trek original series episode. The smoke will be coming out soon.

 

[lc69hunter]

Getting actual numbers on homo/bisexuality is very difficult.
This as there are cultural issues (the whole issue of people willing to come out for their "abnormal" sexuality - heterosexuality being the norm in most cultures), and the whole definition of homo/bi/heterosexuality:
Does feeling some attraction to a person of the same sex qualify as making someone bi?
Does having strong attraction to people of the same sex, but sometimes also a bit to someone of the opposite sex, make someone not gay?
Does a person need to have had an actual sexual experience with someone of the same sex to make them gay/bi? Is kissing/touching enough to make a "sexual experience" or do you require genitals to have been part of the action?

From the link below:


These numbers are notably lower than what I find in my survey on Literotica, but then the numbers here are likely skewed as it is a site for people with a strong interest in anything sexual/erotic. A possible explanation might be tha.t gay/bi people are more aware of their sexuality, and with that will pursue more things sexual, including sexual fantasy sites like Literotica.

http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.e...ple-are-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender/

Very interesting study, with the disparity between sexual activity and sexual identity. I fit into that profile. I identify as straight and have no interest in a one on one with another male. However, in a group (3 or more) situation I don't believe in labels and have definitely had same sex interactions

 

[nice90sguy]

Highest ratio of female authors: Non Human

I don't know why that makes sense to me, but it does.

 

[DeLaFaye]

I don't know why that makes sense to me, but it does.

You know why.

 

[MillieDynamite]

And they call me batshit crazy. I've written a couple of those stories, but I don't think I put them in nonhuman, though they had nonhuman characters.

 

[lc69hunter]

And they call me batshit crazy. I've written a couple of those stories, but I don't think I put them in nonhuman, though they had nonhuman characters.

Just looked at your story list. You are definitely out there with the non human actors

 

[MillieDynamite]

Only a few of them. The Countess, another Countess, the succubus, the plant, that's it.

Just looked at your story list. You are definitely out there with the non human actors

At least, I think that is it.