Leonidas
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Statistically speaking (using legitimate surveys, not head counds of self-identifying online personas), considering all sexes and orientations (to include gay & lesian leather), the largest orientation segment in the Scene are submissive males. This is followed closely by submissive females, Dominant males, and the rarest is the Dominant female.
I doubt that you will ever see a valid study carried out that attempts to quantify the proclivity for dominance along gender lines. Those who are in a position to carry out such a study simply don't want to know. There have been studies done where men were put in situations where they'd either have to assert dominance, or demure to try to establish that the tendency to assert dominance is cultural, not inate. Science (especially behavioral science) gets done to prove or disprove some premise. If you end up proving some premise that your study wasn't set up to prove or disprove, it's an accident. Some premises aren't politically acceptable to address, and so you won't see any "peer reviewed studies" that comment on them one way or another.
The primary factor at work in the numbers that you are throwing around is that people will tend to gravitate toward the "scene" to get something they need, but that is hard or risky to seek out, in the "normal" community. If you did a count on collarme, for example, to try to figure out what percentage of the female population is lesbian, you'd come away with a really, really skewed number. It's hard to fathom that submissive men could not find women willing to pussy-whip them outside the scene in this day-and-age, or that women coudn't find men willing to be pussy-whipped. More than likely most of those who gravitate toward the scene don't really want to engage in D/s so much as have their "kinks" served.
The other factor at work is that 70% of internet users are still male. You'll always see more men (of all stripes) on a site like collarme than women until that changes (and it is changing, slowly). Sites like collarme will also attract a number of men even more disproportionate than the general internet population because it is percieved to be sex/pornography related. As "liberated" as we think we are, there still isn't a significant market for pornography among women. Even though they would never comment about it publically, it was widely known among advertisers that the most prominent pornographic magazine for "women" (Playgirl) was subscribed to and read mostly by gay men. Collarme doesn't show membership statistics, as one of it's competitors whose name begins with an "A" does, but it's a pretty safe bet that the membership of collarme is also around 90% male. You'll see women better represented in areas of the site like chat and discussions, because those features appeal more to them than they do to men, who tend to be here to look at pictures of naked women and try to get sex partners through private e-mail.
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Leonidas
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