Sex on the SDMB

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I think I’ve spotted a SDMB trend: threads with anything sexual in the title have huge replies: views ratios (or maybe they’re small ratios, I was never great at maths). What I mean is, you get a thread called Spread Your Legs, Babe and you’ll get nearly 1000 people viewing, but only 23 replies (at the time of going to press)!

Anyone get the impression that there a large unregistered viewing presence out there?!

I was going to call this thread “Replies: views ratios”, but then I thought, hold on, let’s do an experiment. Let’s see what the ratio for this is?!

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“Sex attracts attention. Film at 11.” :wink:

Yeah, threads that are about sex tend to attract a lot of viewers. Kind of like the red light district: the viewer-to-buyer ratio is a lot bigger there than in your average supermarket.

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And you’ll see the high views:posts ratio when the content of the thread doesn’t match up with the expectations that a poster might have for that thread, especially when combined with the sexually charged title.

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you’ll probably end up noticing the exact same thing with this particular thread.

Got me, anyways :wink:

[sub]where’s the naked ladies dammit?[/sub]

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That was kinda the point Venoma. We’re at 10:1 and counting!

I suppose people want the, er, ‘stimulation’ without anyone else knowing about it. Prob’ly the same everywhere.

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Does my post change the ratio?

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No, the ratio is inexorable, even with this post.

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Through the 20:1 barrier!

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It’s a subject we hold near and dear to our parts.

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OK, enough experimenting. Question asked, and answered.