Comments | thefourthvine: [Poll] Perceived Kinkiness

thefourthvine

[Poll] Perceived Kinkiness

Jul 10, 2009 11:20

I am having a crappy day, people. I come to you for entertainment and distraction.

So, the other day - or maybe it was the other week; I'm not exactly Speedy Jenny, here - frostfire_17 said something that interested me. She said that she thinks Reboot Kirk would be kinkier than TOS Kirk ( Read more... )

[meta], [poll]

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derryderrydown July 10 2009, 19:01:31 UTC

I've said 0 for Jack Harkness because, although he'll do absolutely anything, he's pretty vanilla by 51st century standards.

thefourthvine July 10 2009, 23:06:39 UTC

See, and I said 0 for Jack Harkness because he's just sexually open. He's not kinked in any particular way; he'll do anything, with no special focus or restriction or indeed anything beyond, "Hey, sex is fun!"

illariy July 10 2009, 19:02:37 UTC

Fandometrics: Want Want Want! :D

illariy July 10 2009, 19:09:55 UTC

Damn. Pushed submit too soon.

What kinks: I think TOS!Kirk enjoys bondage, possibly anything that gets hurt, orgies and telepathic sex. Heck, TOS!Kirk probably would enjoy sex with a tribble. But I didn't give him a high rating because to me, the sex is what matters most to him. Everything else is secondary.

TOS!Spock... I don't know. He did have some nice moments with strangling someone. He enjoys melding with people so I think he'd enjoy it sexually, too. Other than that? I got nothing. I think TOS!Spock is quite repressed.

AOS!Kirk enjoys getting hurrrrt very much. Asphyxation, whipping, calling him names, it's all good. He has kinky sex as often as he can, which sadly is getting less and less frequent now that he's a Captain. Thank god for masked parties and some pretty advanced 23nd century makeup. Also, having a good relationship with your CMO is key. *nods*

AOS!Spock loves strangling people. He also might have a mama kink. AOS!Spock is not ashamed of much. Humans are weird and illogical, Vulcans detest him anyway so noone ( ... )

thefourthvine July 10 2009, 23:07:15 UTC

It's been created! fandometrics.

bleedtoblue July 10 2009, 19:09:25 UTC

I find it very interesting that my answers mostly matched the most popular answer for each character. I seriously suspect Jack Harkness throws the whole scale off.

thefourthvine July 10 2009, 23:12:38 UTC

Apparently you have a very popular sense of kinkiness. *g*

I seriously suspect Jack Harkness throws the whole scale off.

It's what he'd want to do, of course.

puckling July 10 2009, 19:09:37 UTC

I approve of this study. More of these sorts of polls should be conducted. Basically, I would totally read Fandometrics.

thefourthvine July 10 2009, 23:13:48 UTC

Thanks to dramaturgca, it exists! fandometrics.

hannahrorlove July 10 2009, 19:10:13 UTC

To find a baseline from which to judge, I looked at the online OED. The third definition of the noun "Kink" is as follows: A sexually abnormal person; one who practises sexual perversions; loosely, an eccentric, a person wearing noticeably unusual clothes, behaving in a startling manner, etc.

Disregarding the notes about clothing, as that can vary within a few square miles of a single city - Los Angeles with its bikinis and Orthodox Jews, for example - we are still left with a broad base from which to judge, by "pervesions" and "abnormal." However, to go by the first part of the first definition of the adjective "kinky" is a bit more helpful: Having, or full of, kinks. With kink being taken to mean an abnormality or unusual trait ( ... )

thefourthvine July 10 2009, 23:15:59 UTC

Oddly enough, this seems to throw the sexual opportunists on this list - Captains Jack Sparrow and Harkness, for example - into the low numbers.

And, see, this is mostly where I place them! (Jack Sparrow seems kinkier to me than Jack Harkness, who seems totally non-kinky. I mean, Jack Sparrow's primary love interest is a SHIP. That's kinky!)

And I even have the perfect icon for this.

You really, really do. *admires it greatly*

Why, yes, I did have a bad afternoon and decided to sublimate with academic language.

I hope your day improves. (And I was in a similar situation, although I went to the poll route. *g*)

hannahrorlove July 11 2009, 00:20:10 UTC

His love interest, yes, but this poll is about sex rather than pairings. When it comes to sex, Sparrow has no outside requirements beyond, as I said, a willing partner or two. Harkness is even less worried about the circumstances of the situation - not even the Blitz is enough to stop his flirting. Although he is perhaps one of the best-informed characters in fiction in regards to "no means no."

It's gotten better after buying blue eggs and cooking some tasty zucchini. There'll probably be tea later, too.

strangerian July 11 2009, 02:27:37 UTC

Hmmm, Original Kirk's love interest was often thought to be his ship, which of course didn't stop him from pursuing Babes of the Week (on the show) and Spock (in fanfic). He still loved his ship best.

Hmmm, this reveals a lot about conflating loyalty, romance, love, sex, and kinks, but that's Epic Adventure TV, and (not coincidentally) fanfic, for you.

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