[Poll] Perceived Kinkiness

[thefourthvine]

I am having a crappy day, people. I come to you for entertainment and distraction.

So, the other day - or maybe it was the other week; I'm not exactly Speedy Jenny, here - frostfire_17 said something that interested me. She said that she thinks Reboot Kirk would be kinkier than TOS Kirk.

My immediate reaction, of course, was to want to evaluate the Perceived Kinkiness (PK) of many characters on a set scale. This is a pressing and important issue in fandom, after all, and I think it's tragic that I can find no previous work on the subject in the literature. (Why is there no journal of Fandometrics? I know lots of people study fans, and, look, I love you guys and I find you interesting and all, but what I really want to read is studies on the characteristics of various OTP groups within a given fandom as compared to OTP groups within another fandom, and an ordering of perceived character intelligence plotted against six key traits one of which is total percentage of dialog, and data on the distribution of key adjectives associated with certain characters, and maybe how that relates to fannish migration over time. Plus, of course, PK.) Fortunately, we have this thing called polls, so I can at least cover the PK issue until such a time as Fandometrics starts publishing.

Obviously, answer this poll using your own personal definition of kinkiness. For bonus points (and a more distracted, and thus more happy, TFV), discuss what specific kinks you think a character is mostly likely to have in the comments.

On this scale, 0 is totally not at all kinky, and 5 is most kinky in all the land. Go! Rate! We will have our Fandometrics yet! (And now we do, thanks to dramaturgca: fandometrics!)



[Poll #1427906]

Comments

[miaruma.livejournal.com]

Although Jack Harkness remains my personal definition of a zero, even though I'm fairly alone there.

Ohhhhh, may I ask why he's a zero for you? And with that: how would you define kink?

And yeah... sex in the snow is tricky, fun but tricky. And I have no idea how it works at arctic temperatures but I'm sure if someone found a way it would be Benton Fraser :DD

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

For me, a kink is a focus, a sort of sexual hot spot. It can even be a limitation or a requirement, something you kind of need to get off. Jack Harkness has no sexual focus or specific hot spots; he's willing to do anything and everything. So to me, he's not kinky, he's just open-minded. It's like there are three possible things you can be: kinky, flexible, and vanilla. Vanilla's a limitation, kink's a focus, flexible is Jack Harkness.

[miaruma.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh.

You know, it's times like these when I wish I could graduate in Fandom. I would ACE all my exams and polls like these would be course requirement (and not at all dreary and exhausting like 99.9% of all other sociological polls ><).

Something that's niggling me though, you say you classify Jack Harkness as flexible (not vanilla) but I understood this poll as 0 = vanilla/just the 'normal variety sex' ; 2-3 = flexible/open to kinky stuff but not expressively pursuing it; 5 = totally kinky (whatever your definition is) but you said Jack Harkness for you is a 0 in this poll. So uhm... halp? Did I misunderstand this poll?