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tacit

Some thoughts on human sexuality

Oct 02, 2008 22:22

[Edit] The map has been updated since this post was made! The new, improved version is here.

Some time ago, a person named Katharine Gates designed a map of human sexuality. Her Web site appears to be defunct now, but the map has recently gained exposure in other placesMy first impression upon seeing this fetish map was that it was woefully ( Read more... )

sex, sexual informatics

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chicky October 3 2008, 02:39:19 UTC

And a sea monster (perhaps swimming over by the Angry Dragon).

madamruppy October 3 2008, 03:12:27 UTC

JMac saw it came up on the computer screen and asked if it was a fantasy map - and I laughed at him.

darkwolf69 October 14 2008, 15:24:09 UTC

No wonder the Elves don't let everyone cross the Sea with them. ;-)

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chicky October 3 2008, 02:38:42 UTC

Christ, I'm all over the map!

icedrake October 3 2008, 02:53:17 UTC

"gigolo" is misspelled.

tacit October 3 2008, 16:42:35 UTC

Thanks! Fixed now.

georgiamagnolia October 3 2008, 03:01:55 UTC

So how exactly are you choosing what goes on the map? If anyone actually admits to doing a thing or just has talked about doing a thing or gotten off talking or thinking about a thing? I ask because having worked for an adult conversation line for the last nine years, I have heard some ... uh ... things. I hesitate to actually call them interesting things. As a result I recognize way too many of the things on this map. Oddly enough, furries and plushies don't seem to call our line. EVERYONE else does though. Happily that is no longer my day job, but I still have my hand in, so to speak. (gah! no pun intended)

(and as an aside, I love "literotica bay", that cracked me up. I've been swimming there... *snerk*)

tacit October 3 2008, 16:43:45 UTC

Things generally go on the map if they're real fetishes engaged in, however infrequently, by real people. (The exception is the Land of Myth, which contains things like gerbilling and snuff films which are part of the popular folklore, but which have never actually been recorded for real.)

madamruppy October 3 2008, 03:08:11 UTC

That is very interesting, I'm actually surprised at how few I hadn't heard of. I really thought there would be more. I guess I don't live as sheltered an existence as I though.

tacit October 3 2008, 16:44:16 UTC

Or we have similar tastes,a nd there's a lot of stuff out there neither of us has heard of (yet)...

madamruppy October 3 2008, 16:57:58 UTC

Uhm, from what I've read in your journal, we don't share much :D I'm pretty darn vanilla - much to the boyfriend's dismay (poor felllow). But so many of my friends are kinky I get to learn about lots of "interesting" things. And you are right, there is so much more out there than we know - possibly want to know.