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Its very much a gendered thing. If you have lots of female (online) friends and late night topics with them ended up trending spicy, you might hear of AO3. FWI

by jorvi 1y ago

Its very much a gendered thing. If you have lots of female (online) friends and late night topics with them ended up trending spicy, you might hear of AO3. FWIW the vast majority of writing on there is decidedly mediocre. There is also an even more inferior alternative called Wattpad. Funnily enough you learn that in general we aren't all that different in our tastes, it's just that what men like to watch, women like to read / imagine. Edit: to paint the picture, this[0] was sent to me a while back :-) [0]https://www.tiktok.com/@alexarowe11/video/7468462146347617579 https://www.tiktok.com/@alexarowe11/video/746846214634761757...

diggan 1y ago
The world of "spicy reading" isn't new to me (male), just that website in particular. I don't think it's as gendered as you paint it, but I'd also acknowledge it depends a lot on geographic location, probably looks different where I am compared to where you are, I agree with that we probably aren't all that different in tastes in general :)
- Freak_NL 1y ago
  Anecdata, but it does seem like a very gendered divide on the whole. The only reason I know of Archive of Our Own is because my wife is quite familiar with it. And I do consider myself well acquainted with various smut filled corners of the internet well beyond Literotica.
- Ferret7446 1y ago
  Literary vs visual porn is strongly gender divided. I would be very surprised if you were into erotica and weren't aware of AO3; I find it more likely that as a male you aren't actually very into erotica, as is the norm. I'm sure you can find lots of studies about this, but just for a very easy data point, a few years old survey shows that AO3 is ~54% cis female, ~5% cis male, rest nonbinary/trans/etc.
  - fouc 1y ago
    Maybe that's more a statement about the type of content it has (or originally had)? Fan Fiction isn't strictly about erotica after all, if you filter out the erotica part, the distribution might be a bit different.. I would assume webnovels.com wuxiaworld.com and r/ProgressionFantasy might be more male gendered, even though that some of type of content could easily be on ao3 too..
  - diggan 1y ago
    > Literary vs visual porn is strongly gender divided. I would be very surprised if you were into erotica and weren't aware of AO3; I find it more likely that as a male you aren't actually very into erotica, as is the norm. Well, I've read my share of erotica, maybe I wouldn't say "very into erotica" but well-read enough it seems, compared to my peers. I guess everyone who happens to read erotica automatically isn't interested in fan-fiction, so they never stumble across AO3, I can hardly be alone in this situation.
ethbr1 1y ago
The great thing about crowdsourced content is that if you have mediocre at scale, there are some gems! I remember when I first stumbled across the main Antimemetics Division storyline on SCP. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub
- jorvi 1y ago
  QNTM is actually 'remastering' this into a book and then publishing it. There's also another great one about a spinning disc that ends up opening a portal when placed on a mirror. SCP-093.
- ahazred8ta 1y ago
  "But... we don't even have an anti-memetics division." "Yeah, we get that a lot."
  - ethbr1 1y ago
    I always forget how good the anti-memetics division stories are.

by jorvi 1y ago

diggan 1y ago

The world of "spicy reading" isn't new to me (male), just that website in particular. I don't think it's as gendered as you paint it, but I'd also acknowledge it depends a lot on geographic location, probably looks different where I am compared to where you are, I agree with that we probably aren't all that different in tastes in general :)

Freak_NL 1y ago
Anecdata, but it does seem like a very gendered divide on the whole. The only reason I know of Archive of Our Own is because my wife is quite familiar with it. And I do consider myself well acquainted with various smut filled corners of the internet well beyond Literotica.
Ferret7446 1y ago
Literary vs visual porn is strongly gender divided. I would be very surprised if you were into erotica and weren't aware of AO3; I find it more likely that as a male you aren't actually very into erotica, as is the norm. I'm sure you can find lots of studies about this, but just for a very easy data point, a few years old survey shows that AO3 is ~54% cis female, ~5% cis male, rest nonbinary/trans/etc.
- fouc 1y ago
  Maybe that's more a statement about the type of content it has (or originally had)? Fan Fiction isn't strictly about erotica after all, if you filter out the erotica part, the distribution might be a bit different.. I would assume webnovels.com wuxiaworld.com and r/ProgressionFantasy might be more male gendered, even though that some of type of content could easily be on ao3 too..
- diggan 1y ago
  > Literary vs visual porn is strongly gender divided. I would be very surprised if you were into erotica and weren't aware of AO3; I find it more likely that as a male you aren't actually very into erotica, as is the norm. Well, I've read my share of erotica, maybe I wouldn't say "very into erotica" but well-read enough it seems, compared to my peers. I guess everyone who happens to read erotica automatically isn't interested in fan-fiction, so they never stumble across AO3, I can hardly be alone in this situation.

ethbr1 1y ago

The great thing about crowdsourced content is that if you have mediocre at scale, there are some gems! I remember when I first stumbled across the main Antimemetics Division storyline on SCP. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub

jorvi 1y ago
QNTM is actually 'remastering' this into a book and then publishing it. There's also another great one about a spinning disc that ends up opening a portal when placed on a mirror. SCP-093.
ahazred8ta 1y ago
"But... we don't even have an anti-memetics division." "Yeah, we get that a lot."
- ethbr1 1y ago
  I always forget how good the anti-memetics division stories are.