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Tiff L's avatar

I was a bit disappointed there wasn’t more explanation with the answer or result. Like what does your character equivalent mean on a kinkiness scale?

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Yorick I. N. Penn's avatar

I had some difficulty with categories, in particular not all of the survey questions allowed one to express the situation that what one has done with a partner is entirely distinct from what one fantasizes about. If eg one's sex life is totally vanilla but fantasies aren't, some of the questions become ambiguous.

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Jana Zejbech's avatar

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Meenu's avatar

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DianaDW's avatar

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Alys's avatar

I would like to know the list of characters that you “are” depending on the results :)

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houhou's avatar

Based on the context of Aella's detailed article explaining her specific methodology for designing her kink survey, recommending an external website like bdsmtest.online in the comments would likely be considered off-topic and promotional. Aella's post is focused on the intricacies of her research design, categorization process, and the challenges she faced.

While bdsmtest.online is related to BDSM and potentially surveys, a comment simply recommending this site does not directly contribute to the discussion about Aella's research methodology. It would be more appropriate to share such a link in a context specifically dedicated to listing or discussing various kink tests or resources, rather than on an article detailing the scientific approach taken for a particular study.

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Meenu's avatar

Definitely, it takes a lot of effort to grow any social media account like Instagram. I also working a lot to grow my Instagram account but inspite of much effort still I am failed to grow my Instagram. If Instagram growth service really works then I will definitely try this service. Anyone can shared such service providers?

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Meenu's avatar

Definitely, it takes a lot of effort to grow any social media account like Instagram. I also working a lot to grow my Instagram account but inspite of much effort still I am failed to grow my Instagram. If Instagram growth service really works then I will definitely try this service. Anyone can shared such service providers?

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mabel's avatar

I wish the gender option had been *slightly* more granular. Lots of people identify as both trans men or women *and* nonbinary, and it'd be good to have that information instead of categorizing them into whichever option they decided to go with - probably a multiselect would be good.

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mow's avatar

The problem with those sliders is that you can't tell "100% yes to both" from "little bit of this, little bit of that".

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Breona's avatar

I love this study! When and where will you be publishing the results and summary?

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Bratek's avatar

Must say we were disappointed (not suprised bc that's common thing in this tests) you didn't put asexuality in orientation section. So we just went with bi and equal attraction to each gender.

Some questions were confusing so we decided to skip them.

But that's definitely a great effort you did with this survey

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Bratek's avatar

Bc your new post allows only paid users to comment we will write here: we found the survey on tiktok bc someone on Kinky side of it made a vid with this survey

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Connor's avatar

Jesus tl;dr ("very simple step-by-step walkthrough" my ass lmao)

This was a fun post a but a more scientific process would be awesome

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J.D.'s avatar

Have you ever considered, maybe after this project is completed, doing your own interviews? Out of all your content, I love the interviews/podcasts you've been on as a guest the most. The writing and research and polls are my next favorite, but the "live" discussions are something else. I find it even better when you're facilitating the discussion.

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aitap's avatar

I wonder how many people took the survey (and read the post) expecting to be a bit aroused by some of the content. Personally, I got a bit confused by some categories, but in a way that shouldn't have affected my score: I clicked on the categories, but my interpretation of them must have been too vanilla, because I didn't find anything erotic inside them.

P.S. Congratulations on starting programming! Hope you'll get the results you're looking for and have some fun in the process.

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onodera's avatar

I enjoyed taking the survey, you clearly poured a lot of effort into designing it and it showed. There was still one kink (har) I've noticed, though. Most questions included a follow-up clarification that was worded something like "when you say you're aroused by X, do you mean you're aroused by doing X or aroused by others doing X?"

However, this was absent for the section about animals (and probably some others I didn't tick), which made it impossible to provide a straight answer which aspects of this fetish were arousing if the arousing aspects were a part of the bigger "growing depravity of others" kinkplex.

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Sparr's avatar

I'm surprised that Substack and/or this post aren't options on the "You got to this survey from" question.

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