Anonymous OP 1d

This is mostly interesting in the way it reflects men’s body counts are very concentrated at the lower level while women’s tend to be mostly concentrated at the mid and higher range. Obviously these results would be different if I had the same number of participants on both sides so I may wait until I do and then compare again. This is all just for funsies so I thought I’d share my results

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Anonymous #1 1d

But it shouldn’t be surprising anymore than rich people wanting lower taxes. If women didn’t have constant immediate access to sex they’d have lower body counts tolerances, if men had easier access to sex, they justify all of their sex with attempting to make high body a social norm.

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Anonymous #1 1d

I think a lot of people actually answered these posts based on what they view is a high sex count for the other sex. However since I only received a few comments I can’t confirm this. Generally though men tend to have a higher body count than women, this was not asking for personal body count but rather what was considered high.

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Anonymous #1 1d

Arguably, I’d say sex for men is easier than it is for women. Social stigmas tend to criticize women much more harshly for being sex positive than it does men, as well as labeling things on women as sexual that aren’t inherently true and hold double standards when compared to men. But that wasn’t the intent of my poll.

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Anonymous OP 1d

This is the average body count of sexually experienced men. It doesn’t answer what percent of men of sexually experienced (studies show that is significantly less than women).

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Anonymous OP 1d

Social stigmas make women more weary to sex because of judgment, it doesn’t make their actual access to sex harder.

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Anonymous #1 1d

Sorry could you clarify what you’re saying in that second line? “It doesn’t answer what percent of men of sexually experience” specifically confuses me.

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Anonymous #1 1d

Okay, can you explain how sex is made harder for men then?

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Anonymous #1 1d

I’m not trying to be aggressive here I’m genuinely confused on what point you’re trying to make. Ans again this poll had nothing to do with personal body counts and all to do with what we generally, for men AND women, consider to be a high body count

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Anonymous OP 1d

It doesn’t answer what percent of men are sexually experienced, it only says the body count of sexually experienced men. Its graph that’s like saying “20% of male farmers own 8 or more chickens”, but that’s doesn’t answer how many men are farmers. Makes sense?

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Anonymous #1 1d

Ah okay thank you for the clarification. Here’s a study that supports your claim but only by 1% https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad362.pdf

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Anonymous OP 1d

If the link made it hard to access its “Sexual Behavior and Selected Health Measures: Men and Women 15–44 Years of Age, United States, 2002” and I found it published by CDC

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Anonymous OP 1d

Its multifaceted. 1.The default setting of men are evil, dangerous, and scary. Women don’t experience that social stigma and the consequences of it at all. One consequence is who does the “pursuing”. Its typically men pursuing women in attempt to present themselves as favorable mates and not evil scumbags. Women refuse to pursue because of safety. 2. The heterosexual baseline of attraction is lopsided. Women are significantly less physically attracted to the male population than vice versa.

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Anonymous OP 1d

A study is a study… but 2002 is rough lmao.

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Anonymous #1 1d

Ah okay, do you have any sources of bavk this up? I’m genuinely always interested in these things. I’m trying very hard to make it work so I can have a double minor and one be Women and genders studies. And while I do think this is generally interesting, I am still not seeing the connection between this and the poll, which is examining what each gender views as a high body count.

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Anonymous #1 1d

I fully managed to misread 2002 as 2020, I think I’m a little too tired lol. I’ll try to find a newer study. If you have any, which is how I’m assuming you got your statistic, please share!

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Anonymous #1 1d

Bumble as a company almost went under because its old niche was to be the only dating app where women pursued men by women only being able to message first. They stopped it in August, because the lack of attention of men from women on the apps almost crashed the company

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Anonymous #1 1d

Ohh that is very interesting and I’ll have to look into it! I don’t have an actual source and more of just word of mouth so this should be taken with a grain of salt, but I have heard most men on dating apps seem more inclined to wanting sex than they do a real relationship and more women want the opposite which could explain why many women weren’t approaching the men.

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Anonymous OP 1d

I guess the connection to your poll which is interesting is that its not surprising that the gender with easier access to sex thinks that high body counts are normal. There’s a reason frats allow girls in free, clubs allow women in free, IRL dating events are majority men, dating apps are majority men. Men go overboard teetering on desperation to the point of often being creepy for female attention that’s rarely if ever reciprocated.

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Anonymous OP 1d

96% of Tinder’s revenue is male subscribers. Its extremely hard to justify women have a harder time with access to sex. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/tinder-statistics/

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Anonymous #1 1d

That’s interesting, and could definitely hold true if people answered with my original intent of what’s generally a high body count. Women can more easily find a sex willing man and also see how easy (which is a sucky word but Im not sure what other one to use) men can be and have a higher standard for what’s too much. Men however find much fewer women willing to have sex and thus their idea of what’s too high is skewered. I.E, if someone is given an opportunity to have 100 apples a day, -

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Anonymous OP 1d

-theyd think 50 is a high number. However if someone is only given access to 20 apples a day, theyd find 10 to be a high number.

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Anonymous OP 1d

Yea. When I was 6, I thought $20 was like having money bags. The more you have of something, the less valuable it becomes. Its like Americans taking clean tap water for granted.

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Anonymous OP 1d

if we assume everyone answered with what’s considered high for the opposite sex, I think your point still has merit. Women can easily see how much sex men are willing to have and assume a higher body count would be average and make their decision on that. Men however could see how few women are having sex and make their decision on that. Like if someone is ready to eat apples all the time, you’re probably going to have more leniency in what becomes a weird amount they eat. But if someone -

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Anonymous OP 1d

-doesn’t reallt seem to like apples, you’ll have a lower perception of what is a weird amount for them to eat. Of course other factors could be at play and skew results, but it was a 24 hr Yik yak poll I did in my free time. Regardless Ives had a lot of interesting conversations like this one!

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Anonymous #1 1d

Also i do appreciate the fact this is the first time ive heard the idea that women have more access to sex without it being mostly rooted in misogyny or having nothing of substance to back up, so i genuinely thank you for this!

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Anonymous OP 1d

For sure, no problem

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Anonymous #2 1d

How did I miss this 😭

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Anonymous OP 1d

I thought they were being genuine and pointing out since men are usually more sex ready then women a woman would assume they have higher body counts/it would make sense that women would view a higher body count as easily realistic 😞

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