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BDSM Satatistics - 5/28/2006 10:36:37 PM

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I'd like to know if anyone knows where I could find BDSM statistics. For example, how many people classify themselves as part of this community. I'd even be interested in statistics related to this web site. In fact, that would be great. How many profiles are here? How do those profiles break down into their various catagories and sub groups (no pun intended.) If anyone has this sort of information or knows where I can find it, that would be a help. Thank you.

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RE: BDSM Satatistics - 5/28/2006 10:40:41 PM

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No such statistics are available.

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RE: BDSM Satatistics - 5/28/2006 10:46:35 PM

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No such statistics are available.

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I assume that you're speaking here just for this site, correct?

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RE: BDSM Satatistics - 5/28/2006 11:05:59 PM

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I'm speaking authoritatively with regard to the site, but you're not going to find any such verifiable statistics regarding the community at large either.

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RE: BDSM Satatistics - 5/28/2006 11:30:33 PM

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I would have to search but it is all guessing on the part of those studying sexuality in various fields. I have read some statistics when I was in college because I was thinking of taking up studying BDSM as a subculture in graduate school and changed my mind. Some of the best figures they have, which they even state are mostly guess work based upon anonymoud questionaires from the general public is that 85% of all adults had experimented with some form of BDSM kink.. meaning they were tied up, used handcuffs, had their mate spank them, or used verbal humiliation as a part of their sexual repertoire. This same abstract claimed that 15% used BDSM play as a regular part of their sexual activity, but only between 5% to 10% of the population at large would consider themselves "submissive" or "dominant" sexually as a self identifier. Even less would consider it a lifestyle they were pursuing I suppose. I have no way of verifying these numbers because I no longer have access to the materials I used have access to... and like I said, this abstract made the point over and over again that they hadnt verified the data.

It is a hard thing to study and that is part of my own fascination with it.

On Edit I will look around on a couple of college sites and see if I can find anything either tonight or tomorrow.. no promises..

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RE: BDSM Satatistics - 5/29/2006 12:13:19 AM

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It is a hard thing to study and that is part of my own fascination with it.

I will look around on a couple of college sites and see if I can find anything either tonight or tomorrow.. no promises..

Thank you! And if you find more information, great! (no promises, of course!) I was hoping that this site would have a page where one could look at a statistical picture of the group (all members.) How many people are have profiles? How do they group classify and/or identify themselves? etc. I can't imagine that anyone here would object to a page containing that sort of statistical information, but then again, maybe I'm wrong. I'd almost think that information gathered from a site like this (no names involved, of course) would be more informative than any gathered from a public questionaire. At any rate, thanks for your post and don't sweat over the search unless it's something you're sort of maybe in the mood for anyway.

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RE: BDSM Satatistics - 5/29/2006 3:03:06 AM

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The problem with the stats you are asking about is that everyone may have their own version or "title" of themselves which may also change. Some prefer Top, others prefer Domme/Dom or Mistress, or Queen, or Goddess etc. And then you have the switches whose own classifications may vary as well. The same applies to what one considers to be "this community" at large. Many that own nipple clamps and engage in a little spanking/roleplay as foreplay would not classify themselves as being "into" S/M, B/D etc. Others would and therein lies even more complications.

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RE: BDSM Satatistics - 5/29/2006 5:50:50 AM

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I'm speaking authoritatively with regard to the site, but you're not going to find any such verifiable statistics regarding the community at large either.

With some sadness, I agree. As a former market researcher, I get very nervous when anyone says X percent of people are kinky. The numbers I've seen have varied so wildly as has the definition of "kinky" that generally they are meaningless. Add to this, a lot of the current "research" is web-based and self-selected. To someone who is used to working with valid and replicatable data, it's deeply disturbing.

Add to this the influence of what we called "the social response" (giving the answer that's socially respectable. For example, in the 50's a survey asking "are you homosexual" would probably have found there were a couple of hundred gay people in the US)

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RE: BDSM Satatistics - 5/29/2006 9:15:31 AM

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I was speaking partially of a Kinesy study done in 1990, and they quantified this with defining "kinky BDSM" as certain activities - the old standards, but you are right, many in the lifestyle have other fetishes besides S&M or Bondage. I agree, it is very hard to quantify if a couple is just power exchange with very little kink, and that is possible. There is a whole branch of Christian D/s that is not based in kinkiness whatsoever. How could we quantify them?...lol

Here is a direct link to what they found, although they are not the only ones studying this... there are other academics who are trying to quantify the culture http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/resources/FAQ.html#bdsm

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