How many people write here?

[gunhilltrain]

As per the site:

"Today, more than 50 million people visit Literotica each month to read and write original self-published sex stories, erotic audio, adult comics, and interactive fiction. Our community of two and a half million registered members includes 100,000 authors who’ve published an astounding 500,000+ stories."

Well, 2.5 million people registered over the past 25 years, but that doesn't mean much. In any such transaction, you'll get people who register for something and then forget about it. Since the rolls are never culled, many of them have probably passed by now anyway.

50 million visitors? Now we know where a lot of the trolls come from. I'm not sure what to think of he 100,000 number. I've seen on another site that keeps track of these things that the majority of writers submit one or two stories and then they are gone.

It's certainly literary mass production.

 

[NotWise]

It's certainly literary mass production.

Mass consumption, as well.

 

[MrPixel]

Mass consumption, as well.

...visualizing a six-pack being crushed against a cone-shaped head...

 

[RejectReality]

It would be more accurate to say 100,000 pen names. I've got three, and I'm hardly the only one. For a blurb, authors makes sense, though.

 

[Britva415]

I can't prove it but I don't think most or even many authors double and triple up on handles. I think most of those 100,000 really do write one or two stories and then quit.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I wonder how much they make selling Lit merchandise? They don't seem to offer T-shirts or caps. Somebody would buy them.

https://shop.literotica.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqBS_6GhoRGb-nGSMipRiWEYiBY0zjcGyI7EV0giCKpl76cAUqv

 

[Belegon]

There used to be a "virtual bar" in the AH called Abstrusions, after the originator of the thread... around about 2006 we created tee shirts as though it were a real neighborhood bar and we sold a fair number of them.

 

[Rustyoznail]

At a very rough guess with zero supporting data, I'd say there would be around 60,000 unique people writing here. Some would have multiple accounts for different categories, I've got another I created so the name I used in a story didn't get pinched, and others like HP who couldn't get in to his original account.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I'll drink to that. But I've been accused by a few of drinking to anything, anything at all. Hell, let's drink to drinking to things, shall we?

There used to be a "virtual bar" in the AH called Abstrusions, after the originator of the thread... around about 2006 we created tee shirts as though it were a real neighborhood bar and we sold a fair number of them.

 

[MillieDynamite]

The Hitachi Magic Wand will liquify things, so be careful where you use it.

I wonder how much they make selling Lit merchandise? They don't seem to offer T-shirts or caps. Somebody would buy them.

https://shop.literotica.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqBS_6GhoRGb-nGSMipRiWEYiBY0zjcGyI7EV0giCKpl76cAUqv

 

[Bamagan]

As per the site:

"Today, more than 50 million people visit Literotica each month to read and write original self-published sex stories, erotic audio, adult comics, and interactive fiction. Our community of two and a half million registered members includes 100,000 authors who’ve published an astounding 500,000+ stories."

Well, 2.5 million people registered over the past 25 years, but that doesn't mean much. In any such transaction, you'll get people who register for something and then forget about it. Since the rolls are never culled, many of them have probably passed by now anyway.

50 million visitors? Now we know where a lot of the trolls come from. I'm not sure what to think of he 100,000 number. I've seen on another site that keeps track of these things that the majority of writers submit one or two stories and then they are gone.

It's certainly literary mass production.

The story tags page, which seems to update daily about the time the stories go up, says the current count is 632,959 stories by 105,915 authors. Obviously there are people who have multiple accounts for various reasons, but I doubt the fraction of such folks is very high. People who spend a lot of time on the forums may be more incentivized to create alts, so we may not be a very representative sample of the population of all authors, and the alts created are not always for posting stories under a different nom de plume. I'd expect the number of unique authors to be relatively close to the stated figure*, perhaps somewhere in the 90k to 95k range.

*Edit: To be clear, I am sure the number of active authors is much lower, given the age of the site and the many 'one-and-done' writers.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Someone can go through the list of all authors and see how many are active and how many aren't. Then, they can do a spreadsheet for us and post it here. (A very, very, extremely long spreadsheet)

The story tags page, which seems to update daily about the time the stories go up, says the current count is 632,959 stories by 105,915 authors. Obviously there are people who have multiple accounts for various reasons, but I doubt the fraction of such folks is very high. People who spend a lot of time on the forums may be more incentivized to create alts, so we may not be a very representative sample of the population of all authors, and the alts created are not always for posting stories under a different nom de plume. I'd expect the number of unique authors to be relatively close to the stated figure*, perhaps somewhere in the 90k to 95k range.

*Edit: To be clear, I am sure the number of active authors is much lower, given the age of the site and the many 'one-and-done' writers.

 

[gunhilltrain]

The Hitachi Magic Wand will liquify things, so be careful where you use it.

That company seems to make absolutely everything. I don't know how they got into the vibrator business, but why not?

You have to be careful when using this too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hitachi_ZX490LCH-6.jpg

 

[gunhilltrain]

The story tags page, which seems to update daily about the time the stories go up, says the current count is 632,959 stories by 105,915 authors. Obviously there are people who have multiple accounts for various reasons, but I doubt the fraction of such folks is very high. People who spend a lot of time on the forums may be more incentivized to create alts, so we may not be a very representative sample of the population of all authors, and the alts created are not always for posting stories under a different nom de plume. I'd expect the number of unique authors to be relatively close to the stated figure*, perhaps somewhere in the 90k to 95k range.

*Edit: To be clear, I am sure the number of active authors is much lower, given the age of the site and the many 'one-and-done' writers.

From what I've seen on another site that lists these things, a large majority of writers (all-time) post one or two stories and then seem to run out of ideas. Maybe ten percent write the majority of the stories. Even though this is a much bigger site, I suspect the same is roughly true here too.

 

[Rustyoznail]

That company seems to make absolutely everything. I don't know how they got into the vibrator business, but why not?

You have to be careful when using this too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hitachi_ZX490LCH-6.jpg

I remember quite a few years ago a respectable department store regularly ran ads for Hitachi Personal Massagers. It featured a lady pressing the bulb into her shoulder.

I haven't seen that ad for a long time.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I remember quite a few years ago a respectable department store regularly ran ads for Hitachi Personal Massagers. It featured a lady pressing the bulb into her shoulder.

I haven't seen that ad for a long time.

Yes, they were marketed as an all-purpose massager for aches and pains of all sorts.

 

[Belegon]

Magic wands do a just fine job on shoulders and backs. They are just multi purpose, that's all.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I remember quite a few years ago a respectable department store regularly ran ads for Hitachi Personal Massagers. It featured a lady pressing the bulb into her shoulder.

I haven't seen that ad for a long time.

Spike Milligan, who died decades ago, thought it would be a good idea if a woman's vagina was on her shoulder. "Excuse me, Madam," he could say, tapping her shoulder to get her attention, "I think this is your stop." Very useful, on the bus.

 

[TheLobster]

That company seems to make absolutely everything. I don't know how they got into the vibrator business, but why not?

You have to be careful when using this too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hitachi_ZX490LCH-6.jpg

If you scaled it down and packaged it nicely, I bet this hydraulic pressure mechanism would be a hit among the same clientele that uses the Magic Wand.

 

[StillStunned]

That company seems to make absolutely everything. I don't know how they got into the vibrator business, but why not?

You have to be careful when using this too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hitachi_ZX490LCH-6.jpg

[Generic "Yo' momma" joke]

 

[MrHereWriting]

How many people write here?​

I write "here" all the time, can't seem to get away from it.

 

[gunhilltrain]

If you scaled it down and packaged it nicely, I bet this hydraulic pressure mechanism would be a hit among the same clientele that uses the Magic Wand.

This is one to fifty scale and should work fine. "I just bought it for my kid's birthday."

https://www.ebay.com/itm/135090503393

 

[gunhilltrain]

Spike Milligan, who died decades ago, thought it would be a good idea if a woman's vagina was on her shoulder. "Excuse me, Madam," he could say, tapping her shoulder to get her attention, "I think this is your stop." Very useful, on the bus.

This thread is going into odd digressions. If that were true, shoulders would be a "no-go" zone too. In New York, every part of someone else - like stepping on their toes - requires an "excuse me" - or else. I've apologized to chair legs and then realized it wasn't a person.

 

[StillStunned]

I've thought about an April Fool's story where a male character is cursed so that his nose and his penis are swapped around.

(Also: Spike Milligan was hilarious. His bizarre humour was in fact one reason why Monty Python was so surreal: he was already doing weird stuff, so they had to outdo him if they wanted to break new ground.)

 

[Bamagan]

I've thought about an April Fool's story where a male character is cursed so that his nose and his penis are swapped around.

Physically swapped, such that he gets erections on his face? Or functionally swapped, such that he has nasal ejaculation?