Monday, October 23, 2006

Update on the reader poll: sexual and power orientation

Here's an update as of today on the poll I've taken for a while (see the side bar of my blog). In summary, there's almost a 5 to 1 ratio between self-identified submissive men to dominant women.



The graphical breakdown of the data, followed by the numbers.
It's my belief that there are far more dominant women out there, but they are not self-identified as dominant (since to do so is to run counter to social conditioning and the status quo).

2 comments:

Tom Allen said...

I once read an amusing statement: The only shortage is of the type that you're looking for. This sounds like a "Murphy's Law" corollary, but makes sense when you think about it.

However, I actually do beleive that societal and cultural restraints (heh) make for the domme/sub imbalance.

Something to wonder about, though, is how many self-identified sub men are thinking in terms of extreme femdom, LFA, or weekend kink?

The Edge of Vanilla

Mistress Laura's boy said...

Hi Tom,

Interesting question, but one that is again colored by social/cultural restraints.

I know many women who once they have tasted their power in a D/s relationship, have started shedding their conditioning. These women would have answered your hypothetical question differently at the beginning of their journey than they would now.