it's been awhile since we've had a poll...

[keryx]

I saw this photo yesterday that made me wonder if there's a sex- or gender-based trend in the postures people assume while having orgasms.

My purely anecdotal conjecture is that women tend to squinch while men sprawl, and women become convex while men become concave (though upon reflection, I'm not so sure about the latter). So tell me: where do you fall on this totally scientific spectrum?

[Poll #1545057]

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Comments

[peregrin8.livejournal.com]

i love love love that you made it go to 11.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's important to have an amusing gender scale!

[mermeydele.livejournal.com]

for the dude-lady scale, it really depends on what you mean by those particular words (like did you choose those instead of m/f for a reason), so i chose according to the words basically.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I picked those two because they're fairly gender-stereotypey, to make it more a question of gender than sex (that is, less apparently dualistic than w/m or m/f). Also, I think they're silly words so I like them more than say, the butch/femme comparison I also contemplated.

[firecat]

I would need checkboxes instead of radio buttons to fill out this poll.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

Valid point. I like the ease of scaling, but you're right that it assumes one constant answer. You could average?

[turbogrrl.livejournal.com]

identity is such a nebulous thing. when I was in high school, I used to quip that I was a gay man trapped in a woman's body. I think mostly I thought it was funny, at the time. And yet...

My own sense of self/personhood is highly androgynous, but I am constantly aware that I am in a very feminized body. I can't really decouple the two for a single identity.

[snidegrrl.livejournal.com]

But is concave with belly in, or with back in? I'm so confused!

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I think I meant concave or convex if viewed from behind. So convex = belly in?