I need a favor

[sweetprince]

AHAH, you clicked it. Okay, well I need a favor so that I can officially finish my Sophomore year of college. In my sociolinguistics class we're ending the year with studies, and we're trying to figure out if there's a difference in speech in how women talk about sex and masturbation. Most of these questions, unfortunately, are not ideal for regression, but we're still curious.

IF YOU ANSWER IT (PLEASE, PLEASE DO, I'VE ALREADY POLLED MY CLASSMATES BUT THEY'RE A VERY SPECIFIC SAMPLE), I WILL WRITE A DIRTY-HOT-WRONG MASTURBATION SEQUENCE INTO MY PREP SCHOOL AU, AND GET TWIN TO DO SOMETHING FOR YOU. I DON'T KNOW WHAT YET, BUT SHE'LL DO IT.

[Poll #1185744]

I'll write a really embarrassing fan letter to Jensen on how much his lips hook me in and how much I love wincest and how much I imagine him and Jared doing it every day of the week, if you don't answer this poll, I SWEAR it!

Also, if you know anybody else who's curious about this sort of thing, PLEASE link to this. I promise that once I've done the models, I'll publish the results on here.

ETA: OHMYGOD, you guys are so awesome. This is such a huge number of responses, I can't even begin to thank you.

Comments

[memphis86.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how much it took for me to answer this, I AM SO BAD AT TALKING ABOUT THAT STUFF. DDDD:

[sgriobadh.livejournal.com]

Girls totally masturbate. They're just not obsessed with it. Or with their penises. What is with that, anyways?

[wendy.livejournal.com]

Have you ever talked about masturbation with your friends?

I want to qualify this question.

I talked to a friend about it once when I was very young and just finding out that it even existed. (She didn't know either!) And I talked to my ex-husband about it, obviously. And I've done many polls about fangirls and masturbation (ever done it in your car? ever done it to fanfic? Etc.)

But I've never like, sat around the table at dinner and had it be a hot topic of conversation. Thank goodness.

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

See, that was very useful, because what we're studying is the contrast to how men speak about masturbation which is much more freely then women do. They're fine telling us that they just jerked off, or that they need lotion, or tissues, or whatever, they can be surprisingly candid even when a girl is present, but I think, girls would never talk about masturbation with their male friends present.

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

We're not studying whether they masturbate, we're trying to figure out how they talk about masturbating, notice there is no question, DO YOU MASTURBATE, I'm assuming you do.

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

Well that's important, and I appreciate that you did. That'll probably go in my report.

[sgriobadh.livejournal.com]

Oh, I got that. It's just strange that guys and girls masturbate quite a lot, but only guys like to talk about it.

[wendy.livejournal.com]

I have a brother and an ex-husband and I can honestly say that other than when my husband and I were talking about doing it together or for each other...I've never heard boys talk about masturbation either.

Are guys REALLY fine with it, or is that a stereotype too? I'm honestly asking, but I think it's waaaaay exaggerated, true or not.

Well, once we WALKED IN on a guy doing it but that was horrifying for everyone involved.

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

My definition of masturbating includes, of course, the use of a vibrator. Just to let you know. :)

[finn21.livejournal.com]

So that was KIND OF embarassing. I don't even know why.

I did, however, want to clarify my answer for the last question because I've had 2 very different friends in my life that I think are good examples for this poll. Friend A has very little sexual experience so really never talks about sex with me in general. Friend B has tons of sexual experience and LOVES to talk about sex and masturbation a lot of the time. These of course are extreme examples and while experience and being open to talking about sexual practices aren't mutually exclusive I think they do greatly play into a woman's ability to discuss these kinds of topics with friends. So, while women may talk about masturbation, I think because a large majority find it to be awkward they don't necesscarily put a name to it even if they are in fact doing it.

LOL. I wrote you an essay. I'M SORRY.

[softbluebuddy.livejournal.com]

You might want to post your poll at the masturbationto comm.

I kid you not, the most recent entry that was in my in box not five minutes ago was this from a guy who was probably just reading the entries in the comm that are probably 50/50 men/women.

I never realized so many women masturbate!

There are some people in that comm that aren't shy about talking about masturbation in the least. I have never entered a comment there, but there are quite a few who do.

Notice my icon. Those lips and that mouth are one of the wonders of the world if you ask me. LOL

[walkawayslowly.livejournal.com]

I just want to expand on the last question, I don't think it's because we do it less, I think it's because it's less socially acceptable for us to talk about doing it.

[sloane-m.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to clarify I don't think that there are fewer slang terms because women do it less but more because it's perceived as something that ladies don't talk about. As a consequence I think that's why we don't have the range of terms for it that men do.

[hkath.livejournal.com]

Talking about masturbation? Not embarrassing.

Admitting to sustaining a masturbation-related injury? That's a different story.

:D

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

I'm comparing to a study I did of guys at my school, and of course there could have been response-bias, but not only do they talk about it more frequently than girls claimed to, they talked about it with more ease.

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

NO, DUDE, this is awesome! Thank you!

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, thanks for the idea!

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

*nod nod* Yup, that's the hypothesis I'm testing.

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

See above responses.

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

OH MAN, I HAVE THE BEST STORY EVER. So I was researching gun related death about a year ago, and I like, misread the meta tags on a search I was doing, and I wound up with GORY SEX INJURIES, and my favorite? This guy dumped his girl friend, but he realized he was really lonely, and she'd left this vase over, and I don't know why he went from VASE OF GIRLFRIEND to SEXTOY, but some how his brain made the leap and so he started thrusting away, and was all happy about it. And he thought, "Hmm, if I have a little lube this'll be even better."

So he got the lube and it allowed him to slip further in, and suddenly he was putting to much weight on the vase, and it BROKE. And partially severed his penis. Imagine having to explain that to a doctor.

[hkath.livejournal.com]

Hoooooly crap. o___O

OK, now I don't feel *so* bad :D

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

Okay, what happened to you, I want to know now!

[hkath.livejournal.com]

Um. Last year, I'm on my belly on a really soft couch and the cushions shift, trapping my arm under me and pulling my shoulder out of the socket. OW. Explaining that shit to the doctor (and later the x-ray tech) without getting too specific was really awkward. Also, my friend AJ totally guessed what had happened. *pinkface*