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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
by 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 agoMaybe 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.