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

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

That's really fascinating! Now I'm going to have to look at some sex scenes from that point of view, and see if I also notice the viewpoint shift. It's definitely more likely for sex scenes to have the "any two characters" kind of feeling, where you could swap out names and still get basically the same scene.

What you say about the writer "Mary Sue-ing" the character in a sex scene also makes a lot of sense in context of some of the other comments, since it seems like it's common (and I've had this experience as well) for readers to feel alienated from a sex scene that doesn't match their personal experience and predelictions. Presumably this is also the case when one is writing it.