Comments on: 10 Charts About Sex https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/10-charts-about-sex/ The Official Blog of OkCupid.com Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:49:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.2 By: Lisa Simon https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/10-charts-about-sex/comment-page-6/#comment-34647 Sun, 29 May 2011 05:19:03 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=11188#comment-34647 I think your study is BS and I also holds no weight. I would also like a study done on how many people are looking for a fling or threesome on ok cupid vs match and other sites..

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By: David https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/10-charts-about-sex/comment-page-6/#comment-34613 Thu, 26 May 2011 17:43:40 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=11188#comment-34613 Ever thought of adapting your stats research into the inner workings of the habits of dating behavior for a college or high school stats class….especially an online class – it seems with how important engadgment is that your material could be truly leveraged to create a rather engadging class with a narrative intertwined into it.

i think its something thats worth a partnership and would potentially gain you a bit of advertising as – each course would have to “CITE THEIR SOURCES” 🙂

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By: polaris https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/10-charts-about-sex/comment-page-6/#comment-34569 Wed, 25 May 2011 05:15:01 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=11188#comment-34569 leo766, the 95% “totally fucked”Frenchmen refers to those in the Napoleonic campaign in Russia… at the beginning i though too it was about today’s Frenchmen he he

I’d got to love OKTrends blog enormously!!

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By: mike mick muck https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/10-charts-about-sex/comment-page-6/#comment-34514 Sun, 22 May 2011 08:43:50 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=11188#comment-34514 rivoting!

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By: TheCaoth https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/10-charts-about-sex/comment-page-6/#comment-34379 Sun, 15 May 2011 21:49:05 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=11188#comment-34379 All girls love rough sex. The majority just don’t know it.

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By: Emmahimself https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/10-charts-about-sex/comment-page-6/#comment-34258 Sat, 07 May 2011 12:47:43 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=11188#comment-34258 Let me presume that this chart is not applicable to okcupid users only. Though that was a wonderful analytical break-down, i can boldly say that there were many elements of dependency. Ur basis were replies from users, isn’t there a possibility that many users won’t give the real-self information eg on the masturbation poser feedback? Secondly, the questions you crossed, in no small measure, influenced the chart outcome. Had you crossed the ‘doesnt like to give oral sex’ with another than the one you used, your guess is as good as mine. Our inclination to sex and the urge to have it whenever we feel like, make us more or less mammals. In a situation whereby one can’t control oneself, i wonder the neccesity of such existence. In general, the chart can’t be said to be all-encompassing because of the above reasons, notwithstanding, it’s a good breakdown.

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By: db https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/10-charts-about-sex/comment-page-6/#comment-34245 Fri, 06 May 2011 16:42:07 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=11188#comment-34245 Marbran,

I once read the description of “curvy” as implying that the woman’s waist measurement was approximately 10 inches less than her hips/breasts – as in the classic hourglass figure. In my personal opinion, this would not imply a Kim Kardashian, who I think I heard was a size 2, nor would it imply something like the Michelin Man. While some curvy women are overweight, a lot of overweight women are not curvy.

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By: Tom https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/10-charts-about-sex/comment-page-6/#comment-34227 Thu, 05 May 2011 13:20:46 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=11188#comment-34227 @Gary: you said,” The percent of people who claim they’ve never masturbated:
You have a lot of liars there. I do not believe any of the numbers. Any of them.”

That chart about masterbation clearly says “claim”. “CLAIM”. As in “this is what they said.”

So exactly who are you accusing of lying? And what numbers don’t you believe?

They way I see it, the percent of people who actually masterbate probably doesn’t vary that much among different groups. So that graph, to me, shows in relative terms how many people are lying. Which is interesting.

The bubble chart about sex-drive vs. body image is also largely interesting because it is based completely on self-reporting. Are there people who are actually “overweight” who self-report as “normal.” Sure there are. But that’s not the point of the chart.

So yes, we agree, there are a lot of liars out there. But I DO believe the numbers, because the numbers represent how people answered the surveys. There is no claim that the numbers represent anything else — certainly not the “truth” (whatever that is) — and that’s what makes this whole thing interesting.

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By: Saul Good https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/10-charts-about-sex/comment-page-6/#comment-34222 Thu, 05 May 2011 08:28:05 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=11188#comment-34222 There are many possible interpretations beyond the obvious that should be considered with survey data. In any data collection exercise you have to consider not only issues of sampling (in this case, okc users, ones who answer questions, ones who answer the questions in the analysis). More than that, we should consider the many possible reasons why someone might give a particular answer and how that answer is related to other answers in the analysis. Identifying oneself as curvy may have little correlation with body shape or fat level, but more to do with how one thinks of oneself and/or how one wants to appear or be perceived.

I think that okc users who identify a non-christian religion are more likely to be intending to use the site to find co-religionists for procreation. They may be more likely to click the “I don’t masturbate button during an okc survey for the sake of appearances.

If there were biblical restrictions of masturbation they should pertain to Christians as much Jews, yet there rates of masturbation denial are low. Many branches of Christianity have a more repressive sexuality that Hindu, Muslim, and Jewish sects. It may be that these conservative Christians are not only less likely to use okc, they may be less likely to use if for finding co-religionists for procreation or other dating. It may even be that Christians who would like to find other christians for marriage through okc feel no need to identify themselves as such (either looking for marriage or christian). I imagine this would vary by the percentage of non-christians in the area

And contrary to the claims in the article, in the Biblical narrative Onan gets into trouble for refusing to fulfill his obligation to continue his deceased brothers’ family line by impregnating his brother’s widow as the custom required of him. Instead after sex with his brother’s widow (or the culmination) he spilled his seed on the ground. Ground may even be an idiom for the myriad places he may have deposited his seed. He did this ostensibly because he enjoyed the sex part and didn’t want Tamar to become less shapely by baring a child.

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By: Nicholas https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/10-charts-about-sex/comment-page-6/#comment-34221 Thu, 05 May 2011 08:13:19 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=11188#comment-34221 It is very funny that in chart #2, a significant number of women who like gentle sex are thinking of England…

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