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RedMagic1 -> RE: Kink Demographics: Online Versus In Reality (12/12/2012 6:48:06 AM)
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ORIGINAL: dominlosangeles
I've never seen a particularly good study on the demographics of people who engage in kink. And kink is so broad it probably would be hard to even define what "alternatively inclined" means.
Perhaps the broadest such study comes out of the Australian Sex Survey. Based on 19,000 people interviewed by telephone in 2001-2, 2.2% of men and 1.3% of women had participated in BDSM in the previous year. Bisexuals and homosexuals were more likely to have done so than heterosexuals. Link here (behind a paywall unfortunately):
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2008.00795.x/abstract?systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+will+be+disrupted+on+15+December+from+10%3A00-13%3A00+GMT+%2805%3A00-08%3A00+EST%29+for+essential+maintenance
The Australian sex survey page is here:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ashr/
So about twice as many men as women engaged in BDSM, consistent with most people's general sense that there are more men than women online and in their local scene, even though women make up the majority of online daters overall.
There is almost no research money available to pursue something similar in the United States because of the influence of religion-based morality on politics.
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