Hi friends! Not sure if anyone following me here is still active, but I’m giving tumblr a try again. Some features on this old account aren’t working properly for me, so I’m starting fresh:
Thanks again to everyone who took the time to fill this out. There were 886 responses in all, much more than I expected.
A disclaimer: I'm pretty ignorant about statistics, so take my analysis with a grain of salt. This is all just armchair BS and I'm probably doing tons of stuff wrong. Any actual data scientists who might happen to read this, feel free to rip me a new one in the comments.
When I talk about correlations, that means statistically significant at the 0.01 level according to automatic calculations done in SPSS. I didn't bother to control for any variables except where explicitly stated.
For fellow stats-illiterate people: Occasionally I'll mention a number called "r," or the correlation coefficient. The farther from 0 and closer to 1 or -1 this number is, the more closely related two things are. For example, submissiveness is strongly correlated with how much you like to be tied up (r=.730).
OK, on to the results!
PART I: Basic Info
Basic demographic info, presented mostly without comment. Overall, not much really stands out in this section apart from a couple of things:
1. Lots of trans women; ~6% of respondents, which is huge compared to the <1% in the general population. Is there something about my stuff that appeals to trans women in particular? Or are trans women just kinkier than most people? Anyway, hi.
2. Disproportionately few black respondents; this is consistent with data showing that black people seem to shy away from weird niches in general.
Average 24.5, median 23. (The small handful of people who put implausibly high or low numbers weren't counted.)
A quick note here: When I break down responses to a question by gender, I'll only be looking at cis men, cis women, and trans women, just since the sample sizes for trans men and others are kinda small.
PART II: Kinks and Sexuality
This is the Kinsey scale. From here on, when I mention “Kinsey score,” I'm talking about results on this item.
66.6% of respondents identified as straight, but only 35.6% put 0 ("exclusively straight") here. Seems like most of you guys experience at least some same-sex attraction. Interesting!
Much more even spread here than I expected. For some reason, I always assumed you guys leaned mostly on the D side. Men are more dom-oriented than women, but even the men are pretty switchy:
Submissiveness correlates with Kinsey score among men (r=.356). Doesn't appear to for women, but it's kinda hard to tell since female respondents skew so heavily to the submissive side.
People unsure about their BDSM orientation scored themselves 3.31, exactly the same as the overall average. People who said they have no BDSM orientation scored themselves 3.84. Both groups are slightly more dom-ish than self-identified switches, who rate a 2.81.
Looking ahead to Part 3: Seems like subs are generally at least sorta open to dominating, while Ds are more rigid, rating submissive items harshly.
I ask mainly because so much bondage porn (my own included) is so conspicuously tame in terms of actual sex stuff. Why is that the case? I'm really not sure. If you guys have any theories, lay them on me.
For whatever my POV is worth, I don't consider myself asexual. I think my taste in porn is generally pretty mild, but I'm sexually active IRL, I like hardcore from time to time, and I've got a lot of old sketches and some random half-finished personal drawings that are pretty raunchy. So why doesn't my public-facing art reflect this?
For one, the bulk of my audience is on DA, which has a rule against depicting sex acts. Second, I've always assumed (perhaps wrongly) that too many of you guys just wouldn't like it.
"But Jam!" you say. "Most of us aren't into futa, and you post that all the time." Well, with the futa pics, I can just make a non-futa version and everyone's happy. A full-on blowjob is a lot harder to subtract than a dick bulge.
Anyhow, while it's unclear exactly how many people in the world are asexual, it does look like there's a lot of asexuals in this bunch. Maybe there's a link?
Asexuals didn't differ from other respondents on most items in Part 3. They did rate nudity and hardcore lower than average, though not by as much as you might think: 5.22 vs 6.90 and 4.91 vs 5.52, respectively.
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This was mostly just supposed to be a proxy for BDSM orientation, but it looks like a lot more people went for the dominant option here. Maybe people just like Hotaru more than Saya? 🤔
Average and median both 10, though numbers are all over the place. No difference between men and women.
This figure correlates inversely with interest in gags (r=-.223), heavy gags (r=-.163), and heavy bondage (r=-.133); in other words, the younger you were when you became interested in bondage, the more into gags and heavy bondage you probably are.
Average 3.04, median 3. I'd probably put myself down as a 2 for this one.
Correlates with Kinsey score (r=.245) and age (r=.124).
Difficulty getting turned on without kink correlates with Kinsey score (r=.126) and inversely with how much you like nudity (r=-.219). Also correlates weakly with a few of the items in part 3, though I guess it goes without saying that if you're kinkier, you're probably going to want kink more.
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Average is 3.61. People like them big, just not as fuckhuge as I usually draw them.
Correlates with preferred waist-to-hip ratio (r=.503) and less strongly with interest in futa (r=.135).
The science doesn't lie: people really dig that 0.7 waist-to-hip ratio. 3 was by far the most popular choice, and pretty close to the average (3.22). Also interesting: Virtually no one picked option 1. Even lolicons want some curves, I guess.
Median is 1, average about 2. Women reported more partners than men, but not by a whole lot. Many people declined to answer this question.
Number of partners correlates with age (makes sense) as well as openness about kinks (also makes sense), though less strongly.
Lifestyle people rate every item in Part 3 higher than non-lifestyle people by around 1 point except nudity, which they rate the same. They also have slightly higher Kinsey scores (1.66).
Roughly matches up with people's stated preferences. There were somehow 341 responses to this despite only 260 people putting an orientation other than straight or gay. 🤔
I was unsure whether to include this question since this typology of trans women is kind of controversial. Figured it can't hurt too much to just ask and see what shakes out of the tree, though.
Like the previous question, this got significantly more responses than it should have. Lifehack: You can skip survey questions that don't apply to you!
Once we filter out people who put down a gender other than MTF, we're left with 42 responses to this question, with 22 picking the blue option and 20 picking the red. Trans women with an erotic component to their gender ID were more submissive (1.32 vs 2.15), had lower Kinsey scores (3.32 vs 4.30), and rated heavy bondage, heavy gags, lolicon, futa, crossdressers, DDLG and hardcore all significantly higher (around 1-2 points). The sample size here is pretty small, though, so IDK how much is safe to assume. Still, interesting.
PART 3: Hot or Not
You guys were asked to rate a series of items on a scale of 1 to 9. Most of these are things that I've drawn at least once, though I threw in a couple of others I was wondering about for other reasons.
The breakdown:
8.66 Women
8.31 Gags
7.66 Light bondage
7.60 Heavy bondage
7.10 Heavy gags
7.08 Dominating
6.90 Nudity
5.90 Being dominated
5.79 Being bound
5.78 Being gagged
5.74 Humiliation
5.51 Hardcore
4.86 Breathplay
4.65 Feet
4.30 Crossdressing
4.18 Crossdressers
4.06 Futa
3.42 DDLG
3.32 Men
3.17 Lolicon
Foot fetish seems to be linked to sex, with cis women rating it somewhat lower than men and trans women. There were a few cis women who rated it a 9, though, FWIW. Foot fetish is also weakly correlated with lolicon.
I put in lolicon for one reason: Of the people I've met who've professed an interest in it, all except one were bi gals. Because of that, I've always sorta wondered if maybe bi women and lesbians make up a disproportionate slice of the pie.
Cis men: 3.22
Cis women: 2.43
Trans women: 3.05
Hmm... Looks like men are more into it than women, if anything. Guess my friends are just weird.
Dickgirls: you either love 'em or hate 'em. (But mostly you hate them.)
Futa correlates with Kinsey score (r=.419). It makes sense that bi people would be more open to it, but the correlation is stronger than I expected, especially since I’ve heard T-porn is supposedly super popular with straight men. If the results of this survey are anything to go by, it's actually not very popular with straight guys at all and is really more a thing for bisexuals. It's not just that straight-ish people who like futa are simply more willing to ID as bi, either; interest in futa correlates with Kinsey score even among bi folks (r=.174).
Another point against the "straight guys love dickgirls" thing: Trans women like futa more than men do even when controlling for orientation. Cis women also rate it more positively (or at least less negatively) than men.
12.6% of those who put a full 9 for futa reported a Kinsey score of 0 ("exclusively straight"). Is futa gay? IDK. I'm agnostic on this stupid question. Take it to Internet Court, I guess.
Futa lovers like bigger tits than average (4.13 vs 3.62).
Correlates strongly with Kinsey score among men (r=.682). Still, a full 21%(!!) of men who put a 9 for this one ID as straight. No judgment, but I find that really interesting.
Crossdressers and futa are one of the more strongly correlated pairs in the dataset (r=.592). If you like one, you probably like the other. Makes sense, I guess, but I didn't expect the correlation to be quite so strong.
DDLG isn't my cuppa tea at all, but I included it because a lot of people liking and reblogging my stuff on Tumblr seemed to be into it. I was curious whether there's some connection that I wasn't seeing, or if it's just a BDSM Tumblr thing. Seems like the latter; Tumblr refs score this one 4.35, while the overall average is 3.42.
PART 4: Misc.
My art often features characters from obscure, nerdy video games and anime. How many people here share my interest in that stuff, and how many are just here for the kink? That's what I was trying to get a feel for with this question.
Otaku rated feet and lolicon higher than non-otaku (5.49 vs 4.26 and 3.93 vs 2.87, respectively).
I've always had a secret hunch that dudes who always play female characters are perverts.
Looks like I'm not wrong: Guys who play as girls rate nearly everything in part 3 higher than average, especially crossdressing (5.03 vs 3.98).
HYPOTHESIS: CONFIRMED.
There's some research testing for links between handedness and various gender and sexuality-related things, including fetishes. I don't really see anything here, though. Shrug.
A lot of people puzzled by this one. The 2D:4D ratio is used by scientists to measure prenatal androgen exposure and seems to be linked with all kinds of weird stuff.
Unfortunately, the survey results didn’t turn up much other than very weak inverse correlation with liking feet (r=-.089) -- in other words, people reporting feminine ratios like feet slightly less. It's consistent with the apparent link between foot fetish and male sex I mentioned earlier, but like I said, hella small. I'm guessing the results for this question are mostly too crude to be useful since I basically just asked you guys to eyeball it without any precise standard for measuring.
This was to help ensure you were reading instructions and answering questions sincerely. If you picked anything other than the third option, all of your answers were excluded from analysis. I did still read your comments at the end, though, so thanks to those of you who said nice things.
The group leans leftish on the whole, though a big chunk are apolitical. Lefty people are generally gayer and more sub-oriented; Conservatives are generally straighter and more dom-oriented.
Kinda interesting: The apolitical group had the highest score for lolicon by a fair margin (3.63), while partisans on both sides rated it the lowest (far left 2.30, conservative 2.86). What's the connection there?
Virtually no far right respondents. I'm okay with that, though I wonder what those guys do jack off to. Marble busts?
There's some research showing higher rates of fetishism in people with autism, so I was curious to see what shakes out of the tree here. 16.4%! That's freaking huge! Way higher rate than the general population.
So what else does the data show? Actually, if you compare autistic respondents to non-autistic respondents, they come out looking pretty much the same. The only thing I see is that both autistic people and relatives of autistic people were slightly more into crossdressing:
Autistic respondents: 4.84
Autistic family members: 4.54
No autism: 4.18
Other than that, though, nothing seems to stand out. Hmm.
I have an autistic person in my immediate family, so the topic of autism in general is something I'm extra curious about and has a lot of personal significance to me. If you're ever looking for a relevant org to give to, I recommend OAR.
The DA group is less into futa, breathplay, and nudity than the rest. The Twitter group has a huge proportion of trans women (16.7%). Tumblr people are more into DDLG and hardcore. Contrary to what I expected, Patreon people had the same spread of incomes as everyone else.
Any other comments?
At the end of the survey, I put a long answer section for anything else people might want to say. Many more people wrote something here than I expected, so thanks to those of you who did. On the whole, the comments were extremely kind. Some were very personal and a few even included contact info, so I won't post them.
In case anyone wants to know more about me:
I'm a 26yo white male from NY. I consider myself bi. I'm a switch. I've had two partners, both women, one of whom I've been in a monogamous relationship with for most of my adult life. There's a few vids of her here. She's pretty cute, no? Here's her survey response, if you wanna know.
We're not really BDSM lifestyle people (though if you are, more power to you). Outside the bedroom we're pretty boring. We like movies. We eat fried chicken. We have a cat. All our friends know I draw some kind of weird spank material for money, but the details are mostly kept secret.
Regardless, I feel lucky to have this be such a significant part of my life. Maybe this sounds smarmy coming from the guy who just draws weird big titty anime bondage porn, but I really can't thank you guys enough for all your kindness and enthusiasm. It's a pleasure and a privilege to be able to do what I do and share this side of me with so many awesome people. Thanks guys! ✌️
I've always been pretty curious about the people who like my art, as well as kinky people and alternative sexuality in general. Let's see if we can get to know each other a bit better! The first part is a few simple demographic questions, the second is about sexuality and kinks, and then at the end there's some other random stuff I'm curious about. The full survey should only take you around 10 minutes. All responses are fully anonymous; even I can't see who you are, so please answer truthfully and don't be shy. If any of your answers seem overly jokey or implausible (for example, putting 420 as your age) then your entire response will get thrown out. All questions are optional, so feel free to skip for any reason. If a question doesn't apply to you, then skip it. In a week (Oct 15) I'll make a blog post summarizing the data and put it up on DA and Tumblr. The data won't actually be used for anything other than that. Like I said, I'm just curious! Thanks as always, guys.
Hey guys! I wanna know more about you, so I've put together a few anonymous questions for you to answer, primarily kink and sex-related. Whole thing should only take a few minutes.
