What is the gender ratio on Literotica?

[IsaacTolkien]

I often wonder what the balance is.

The only data I could find is from 2012. At least at that time, the Non-Human category was mostly read by women, while Mind Control was mostly read by men. Gay Male was about 55% male. That data is based on named commenters who indicated their gender.

From what I understand, paid erotica on sites like Amazon has about an 85% female readership. They have entire fetishes I've barely seen on literotica, such as billionaire fantasies, or Bigfoot.

IIRC research shows that photo/video porn sites have a 75-80% male viewership, and most of the women watching are doing so with a partner rather than by themselves.

What are people's experiences in different categories? Does this affect the kind of stories that get a stronger response?

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm somewhat skeptical of the figures from that 2012 thread because I didn't see a discussion of the methodology (maybe I missed it).

Here's a summary of a study on Literotica readership done by an outside source: http://markallenthornton.com/blog/sexual-demographics/

 

[ElectricBlue]

What are people's experiences in different categories? Does this affect the kind of stories that get a stronger response?

Given that comments to views might be one per thousand, even if you could state a commenter's gender with confidence (which you can't), I don't think you can extrapolate anything from a 0.1% commentary response.

Readers often get a writer's gender wrong, so why should writers be any better at knowing readers' genders, let alone know how gender relates to a story's reception?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I'm somewhat skeptical of the figures from that 2012 thread because I didn't see a discussion of the methodology (maybe I missed it).

Here's a summary of a study on Literotica readership done by an outside source: http://markallenthornton.com/blog/sexual-demographics/

A good article, but more about authors than readers. Good to know in any case. Maybe one can take the observations re writers to be indicative for readers?

 

[SimonDoom]

Maybe one can take the observations re writers to be indicative for readers?

I'll bet there's a correlation.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I'll bet there's a correlation.

Agreed, but one should never assume anything more than a 2% mortgage. Not sure how you would get the data for such a parallel study. The researcher for the one you provided worked off authors self-identifying, but very few readers' can be sexed.

Fascinating in any case. I think it should be made into a sticky for all writers to consider.

Thanks for that.

 

[Shelly2inme]

Not balanced

It seems clear that Literotica is a male dominated landscape. My husband was into Literotica before me. Now he hardly ever uses it and I am on a lot. But typically it seems the other way around. In fact, a lot of guys that I PM with are married and their wife doesn't even know they are on Lit. I think that the male to female ratio is off because society has brainwashed women for thousands of years and made them feel guilty about enjoying sex.

 

[KeithD]

I don't think the actual gender of an Internet user can be known well enough to be doing any statistical work with numbers.

 

[SimonDoom]

I don't think the actual gender of an Internet user can be known well enough to be doing any statistical work with numbers.

You just have to acknowledge that the margin of error is going to be high, unless you have data on the probability that people are telling the truth.

If women and men are equally likely to adopt a false gender, then the false responses would cancel each other out. I suspect that's not true, but there'd be at least some cancelling out.

 

[KeithD]

You just have to acknowledge that the margin of error is going to be high, unless you have data on the probability that people are telling the truth.

If women and men are equally likely to adopt a false gender, then the false responses would cancel each other out. I suspect that's not true, but there'd be at least some cancelling out.

I don't think so. I think you only need to be so latched into statistics that you're willing to accept any numbers coming from anywhere without any consideration of common sense or recognition that you can't reduce everything to reliable stats.

 

[ThisNameIsntTakenYet]

I know that generally speaking, written erotic content is more popular among women while graphic content is more popular among men. Had something to do with the way their minds work, I think. Was a long time since I read that though. Can't say that holds true for Literotica though, and it'll probably depend on the category too.

 

[Voboy]

I don't think the actual gender of an Internet user can be known well enough to be doing any statistical work with numbers.

This.

 

[HeyAll]

Depends on the genre, of course.

But I'd say that for Incest, based on private feedback and the profiles of people who favorite me, I think that 90% are men. An estimate.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

I personally don't know anything 'for real' about data because in fact I do occasionally do 'odd jobs' for a VERY big data organization, and I simply don't believe ANYTHING those guys tell me because right now, for instance, they tell me their field tests show that the FEMALE transgender hybrid 'super soldiers' are FAR better at tolerating pain and traumatic shock from live bullets and shrapnel and that they are more robust and stronger for height and weight! As for aliens as in 'ET's' Jeezus! You would not want to know. So nah, it's all complete crap to me.

However, it's also 'bible truth' around there that Cambridge Analytica had EIGHT THOUSAND data points on every single phone-wielding, internet-using American citizen - and that was prior to 2016. So according to them not only do they know all of you, and all of your readers, but when each was male, and then female, and back to male maybe or maybe just plain a fucked up mess.

...And which of you works for troll farms that Magellan (the old you know, SEARCH ENGINE LINKED TO EPSTEIN) pulls the strings of. Did I say 'Linkedin...?' Nope. He he. Did not mention them either.

Not to mention that some of you don't even realize you ARE being puppeteer'd and y'all git angury win'evurr them-a RIGHT WING nutjobs sound orf.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

'Gender ratio?'

Are fucking kidding? Are you fucken FUCKEN KIDDING.

Or, as ACIII says - 'phuckers!'

 

[Hypoxia]

On the InterWebz, nobody knows you're an incontinent transgender spaniel.

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

...I think that the male to female ratio is off because society has brainwashed women for thousands of years and made them feel guilty about enjoying sex.

A bizzarre idea because a) thousands of years isn't even close to what it would take to make evolutionary (permanent) changes in psychology, b) it is abundantly unclear that most of the human population of eons past even focused on enjoyment, c) it is unclear the mythical suppressed women or yesteryear had any choice in the matter either way, so whether they enjoyed it or not was irrelevant and d) some studies (Sirionó of Bolivia) of aboriginal people indicate that female pleasure is not disdained.

An outgrowth of readings on the evolutionary roots of female desire. YMMV.

 

[MelissaBaby]

IIRC research shows that photo/video porn sites have a 75-80% male viewership, and most of the women watching are doing so with a partner rather than by themselves.

My husband thought it would be cool if we had a joint Pornhub account, until he realized that I could see what he watched when I wasn't around. Then he got all self conscious. I thought it was cute.


End of hijack, you can all go back to debating about an unknowable subject again.

 

[Hypoxia]

As surveillance technologies evolve, soon all Web addicts will be ID'd in real time. Every site will know exactly the sex, age, health, financials, and locale of every sucker interacting online. THEN can gender ratio reports be trusted. But we'll never see them -- trade secrets.

Go ahead, be a mutant queer poodle for now. You're safe till then.

 

[jaF0]

There are only six distinctly individual people on Lit, of which I am one. The rest are alts of those six.

 

[PWilton]

Back of the Envelope Unscientific Survey

I like the Lit Chat rooms. Just for curiosity, I just now 'sampled' the participant list (right hand column of the chat window). Here is what I estimated for the ratio of males to females:

Family Role Play Room -- 105/25 = 4.2
Women Who Love Porn -- 63/17 = 3.7
Young Women for Older Men -- 102/23 = 4.4
Submissives 43/9 = 4.7
Taboo 53/11 = 4.8

Very unscientific. I was surprised; thought it would be higher ratio of male to female than that. Of course, it may be skewed by males pretending to be female, etc., but looking at their stated gender in their profiles it seems in the ballpark. Try it yourself and see what you find.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Go ahead, be a mutant queer poodle for now. You're safe till then.

Um, arf?

 

[KeithD]

I like the Lit Chat rooms. Just for curiosity, I just now 'sampled' the participant list (right hand column of the chat window). Here is what I estimated for the ratio of males to females:

Family Role Play Room -- 105/25 = 4.2
Women Who Love Porn -- 63/17 = 3.7
Young Women for Older Men -- 102/23 = 4.4
Submissives 43/9 = 4.7
Taboo 53/11 = 4.8

Very unscientific. I was surprised; thought it would be higher ratio of male to female than that. Of course, it may be skewed by males pretending to be female, etc., but looking at their stated gender in their profiles it seems in the ballpark. Try it yourself and see what you find.

Yes, very unscientific. What control again did you use to determine gender of the poster? What they claimed? Hahahahaha. Welcome to the bamboozled end of the Internet. But whatever gives you false hope.

 

[SimonDoom]

Yes, very unscientific. What control again did you use to determine gender of the poster? What they claimed? Hahahahaha. Welcome to the bamboozled end of the Internet. But whatever gives you false hope.

But in the world of cyberspace, if we can believe it strongly enough isn't that the same thing as it's being so?

 

[KeithD]

But in the world of cyberspace, if we can believe it strongly enough isn't that the same thing as it's being so?

Apparently so. But that makes it similar to allow yourself to be led around by the nose by someone obviously the opposite of anything they are espousing. In other words, not the sharpest knife in the drawer.