[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!)



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Comments

[midnitemaraud-r.livejournal.com]

See, but that's not quite the criteria you stated. You didn't say "how kinky would the characters see themselves" but whether we think they're kinky. Or not. And for Jack to not see himself as kinky, that would kind of preclude that "kinky" is a bad thing. The fact that he has no hangups and will try anything is what MAKES him kinky. That's kind of like taking IQ scores out of determining someone's intelligence, or *gropes* saying someone can't be pretty because they think they are, or trying to determine what constitutes normalcy, and saying X isn't normal because he acts normally.

I mean, we're not talking about kinkiness being the level for which said person can be coerced into trying something they would consider an unusual sexual practice, nor, I think are we rating a character's perception of what they think is kinky. I mean, there are millions of people who think oral sex is kinky. What's the standard then? What definition of kinky are we working from?

For my choices, I picked on a scale by whether I though the character would be willing to try "unusual" or "different" sexual practices. Because that's how I define kinky.