Incredibly nosy TMI poll

[sholio]

So ... I made a comment elsewhere that got me thinking about sex in fanfic, and then I started having one of those "... am I the only one?" sort of ponderings, and so I made an extremely nosy TMI poll about it. If you don't read explicit fanfic, this will probably not be at all interesting to you.

The thing is, written sex doesn't turn me on. At all, really -- there are extremely rare instances where that's not the case, but as a general rule, no. But I know from reading comments elsewhere that this is definitely not true of everybody. So I'm curious ... am I a total fandom outlier, or not?

I've got "detailed results" turned off, so the only person who can see who answered what is me (though the graphs are visible to everyone). If you'd like to answer anonymously in the comments instead, so that even *I* can't see who you are, that's perfectly fine! I swear I'm not asking out of prurient curiosity; it's not like I'm sitting around wondering "Hey, does so & so on my f'list wank off to internet porn?" Like I said above, I'm just kinda curious how the numbers would stack up. Are there just a couple people who are, like me, unmoved by porn? Or the majority? Inquiring minds are very curious! (I thought about doing this f'locked, but total anonymity wouldn't be an option that way, and I wanted to leave that option available to people who wanted it.) And obviously, if you are not comfortable answering this poll, please don't!

[Poll #1521589]

Comments

[astridv.livejournal.com]

I've gone through phases. When I got into fic I read nothing but gen for years, even avoiding PG romance of any kind. Then I branched out into ship and slash but still avoided the NC 17 stuff. Then branched out into that too, and when I first discovered slash I actually found it really damn hot. But I think it's just lost its novelty appeal, and now I'm back to skipping most sex scenes because they distract from the plot. I very rarely read PWP, when it has specific kinks I like. Het smut tends to leave me even colder than slash smut, but every once in a while I come across a writer who writes a really hot pr0n scene in an otherwise plotty fic (like startlet2367's Cordy/Angel fic, or one Kate/Angel story by girlpire, or that one Sam/Rodney PWP by eretria... but I can remember those so well because for me they're exceptions)./tmi

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

*nods* The novelty thing makes a great deal of sense to me. I think that h/c was very much that way for me in SGA fandom -- when I first got into the fandom, I was delighted by the wide variety of h/c that was available, and read everything I could get my hands on; these days, though, I'm sort of ... overstimulated by it, and tired of the tropes, and it just doesn't do much for me anymore unless it's a small part of a much larger and more complex plot.

Like I mentioned above, I have very rarely encountered sex scenes that I found genuinely "hot", I guess -- appealing, arousing, whatever, on more than a simply emotional level -- and they're pretty much always het, from the woman's POV. But most het sex scenes are alienating to me or simply don't fit with my own experiences enough for me to get into them. (Granted, I'm not usually trying. *g*) It's possible that there might be more sex scenes out there that would appeal to me, but I just don't give enough of them a try to find out.