Poll: Compare Amongst Yourselves

[thefourthvine]

makesmewannadie is visiting me, and we got to talking, as we often do. (Okay. Full disclosure: the actual challenge would be making us shut the fuck up.) And one thing we talked about reminded me of a poll I'd considered posting lo these many moons ago, to test a hypothesis that I can't very well tell you beforehand. (Bias is death to informal and statistically skewed LJ polls, my friends.)

So, first, let me just say: hey, it'd be cool if you'd take this poll. I would love you and stuff.

Second - when I say "your friends list," I mean the portion of your friends list that you read regularly - your default reading filter, if you have one, or the whole list if that's how you read. (If you don't read your friends list at all, this poll is not going to be a good fit for you.) My point is, I want you to consider the people you know the best. (Which is not to say you necessarily know them well, of course.) And when I say "the average," I mean your own personally assessed average of this trait over your friends list.

And, seriously, there are no bad answers here. I'm only wondering where you fit into your own mental picture of your friends list for these particular variables. I know you may not have great data for all these questions; just give me your first reaction, and I will of course love you forever.

ETA: Please don't go back to change your answers after you've finished the poll and seen the results! (Unless you think of something you want to add to the text box, or you've decided shoes are more important than almost-cock. Those questions are weighty and take long consideration; I understand that.)



[Poll #931955]

Comments

[gwynevere1.livejournal.com]

The "less sexually active" was the statistic that drew my attention as well.
Maybe it's that people lie in their text posts but are willing to be truthful in ticky-boxes?

Or, else, we've all read so much fan fiction that we've gotten to the point where we think if we're not in a BDSM foursome, we have boring sex lives?

[jenna-thorn.livejournal.com]

That's it exactly. I mean, really, I'm having sex on a fairly regular basis, but it's in a bed with sheets and a quilt on top and doesn't involve feathers or Karo syrup, black leather, gun oil, or puddlejumpers, so it doens't really count.

Which, when typed out like that, is incredibly stupid, but as requested, I'll not go back and change my answer.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

See, this is why this poll is so interesting. Because I'm also having good sex on a regular basis, though it doesn't involve feathers, Karo syrup (thank god), black leather, gun oil, or puddlejumpers, and I considered that "more sexually active."

(And thank you for resisting the temptation to change your answers. I know half the time with polls I do that, and I really do want people's first reactions, here.)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I think it may be more that we tend to hear about sex people are having, if that makes sense. If three people post about having sex all the time, and everyone else is silent on the subject, what we think of when asked about sexual activity is those three people.

Of course, my own theory doesn't work on my friends list, where people are very vocal about the sex they're not having.

Hmmm.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Or very vocal about the sex *other* people are having, which seems to be a common theme on my flist.

("And then I realized why the ceiling was shaking and OH MY GOD.")

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

"All I did was walk into the living room and now I'm TRAUMATIZED FOREVER OH GOD MY EYES."

Yeah, I see that on my friends list from time to time, too. (And I also once lived in an apartment complex that - well, it was sort of built around a courtyard, and the courtyard echoed, and all I can say is that one woman did not need the echo to help carry her glad tidings, if you see what I'm saying, but it certainly ratcheted things up to operatic scale for her. This was particularly bad in hot weather, when everyone had windows open. I mean, yay for sex, but I think you should somehow manage to be less noisy and disruptive than cats in heat. (There was a theory in the building that she was just making the noise for entertainment purposes, with no sex involved. That would have made sense, because I have heard many an orgasm in my time and none has been quite that - um.))