The Ten Most Used Words in Erotoca

[Bramblethorn]

woot, new gender just dropped!

Maybe things were different in 2015, maybe it was how the stories were pulled, but it's hard for me to believe that only 20% of the authors for the stories that were pulled didn't report their sex. "No Answer" and "Blank" are so common that the kind of analysis he did should be meaningless. I did some similar analysis in 2023, and @KeithD rightly called them out as meaningless.

IDK whether it's the cause, but Literotica did update the way gender was handled in profiles a couple of years back. A lot of the options now seen were not available when I signed up - back then it was just Male, Female, Couple, Transgender (maybe male/female split?) and No Answer, or something close to that.

Your sample's based on New Stories so it will lean towards users who created their accounts recently, probably most of them since that change. From the size of the data set mentioned, I'd guess that he pulled all or almost all of the stories/authors that were on the site as of 2015, so that would have much older accounts relative to yours and all created before the change in profile systems.

That would be my first guess for the cause of the disparity. I don't remember the old account creation process very well, and I haven't seen the new one. But if the change made that gender field less prominent, e.g. changing from something that gets filled out as part of account creation to something users just optionally fill in after account creation, that could easily explain the change.

Anybody with better knowledge of the past and/or present account creation process able to provide info on this?

 

[8letters]

I guess things were different in 2015. I blew out my data by the year the member created their account. In the last few years, the number of Blank / No Answer genders has skyrocketed.

? is Blank / No Answer
F is Female
M is Male
O is all others