#1 2013-07-16 17:09:50

chrischmchris

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Registered: 2013-07-04

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Quite fewer men than women - why?

Hello, It strikes me that quite contrary to both general opinion and sexological findnings, while masturbation is more common (or quasi generalized) by men less so by women (studies showed an increase of this practice during the last 50 years from approx. 40% in Kinsey's studies to some 70% nowadays), there are on BA quite less men than women. Would you have a hypothesis why that? I'd be interested to have an answer from some staff member in particular, since it may be a bias due for instance to the places where BA is most known.
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lauren

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Re: Quite fewer men than women - why?

We have always had fewer male submissions than female, chrischmchris. It's just the way it is.  BA isn't only about sharing your Orgasm, its also about sharing your stories, and the fella seems a little shyer when it comes to sharing these. If we received more submissions from them then we could even up the ratio.

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kjcana

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Re: Quite fewer men than women - why?

That's interesting to hear because whereas I'm male and have submitted and know a few friends who have (of both genders), I also know a couple of other male friends who rang the feck offices, each at different times, to enquire about submitting and were refused. 

They were told there wasn't a need for male particpants at the time because there was already enough lined up.

Any female friends who wished to submit have never had a problem!

lauren

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Re: Quite fewer men than women - why?

We don't tend to refuse, we may not have been looking for fellas at the time as we had a lot waiting to be edited (it happened recently) but we most likely took details and we'll call back when we are looking for guys to submit. Please tell them to get in contact with us again, or to submit via our submit page online.

Its an unfortunate situation, but male submissions have never consistently arrived like the female submissions. It's been this way since the beginning.

We do what works for us, for a while now it's been 4 female and 2 male submissions a week. It wasn't always this way though, once upon a time it was one male submission a week

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chrischmchris

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Re: Quite fewer men than women - why?

Hi again! Apart from the specific problem raised by kjcana, your data fit well within the framework of what we learn from investigations whether in gender psychology or psychosexology. It was long thought that male sexuality was a lot "simpler" and well known than that of women and that the "dark continent" was that of female sexuality. But it appears increasingly that the supposed "simplicity" of men actually refers much more to their shyness, timidity, their difficulty to adress their feelings, emotional life and intimacy. Males psychoaffectivity and sexuality is much more difficult to investigate in research than that of women - and thus very much less revealed.