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No way I'm trusting this informal survey unless they have a plausible, data-backed explanation for the supposed huge gender disparity in sexting. The only half
by marvin 14y ago
No way I'm trusting this informal survey unless they have a plausible, data-backed explanation for the supposed huge gender disparity in sexting.
The only halfway plausible explanation is that the 3.4% of men who are gay or bi all sext with each other. In other words, a large number of the respondents lied and the data is invalid.
That said, anecdotal evidence (the people I talk do every day) strongly indicates that people are in fact occasionally using Snapchat for other things than sexting
- sp332 14y agoPossibly the men are all sexting with the same women.
- justinsteele 14y agoI actually found that piece the funniest, and anecdotally after living with 4 women, I expected it. A case I see is a mixture of more Bi/Gay men sexting each other (than Bi/Lesbian women), plus a lot of men either attempting to sex with women (who do not sext back) or sexting with the same smaller subset of women.
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- awenger 14y agoThat's one of the first things that we (I'm a Survata co-founder) noted in seeing the data too. I see a few possible explanations: (1) A woman who sexts could have multiple sexting partners. In the extreme, you could have every man in the world sext with one woman, making the male sexting prevalence 100% and the female near 0. (2) While we defined sexting as "sending or receiving", some respondents may interpret the question as primarily about sending. There could be a gender bias in the sending vs receiving of sexts. (3) As you point out, the data is reported behavior and not observed behavior. Reported behavior often is a good proxy for observed behavior, but it is not perfect. And there are known to be effects where certain demographics answer questions dishonestly for conscious or unconscious reasons. Perhaps women are less willing to admit to sexting behavior.
- nollidge 14y agoSexting isn't necessarily two-way.
- antidaily 14y agoIf only
- saalweachter 14y agoHasn't prior research established that men on average overstate sexual experience and women on average understate? I think I've seen this come up in surveys of number of partners and frequency, so it doesn't surprise me at all that it would happen in sexting surveys. Even assuming all of the participants are being truthful, you'll have some problems with definitions not being shared by the participants. The classic example is "Does oral sex count?" Men, for whom a large number of partners is (sometimes) culturally good, may be inclined to count it. Women, for whom a large number of partners is (sometimes) culturally bad, might not count it. With respect to sexting, imagine a woman sends a man a picture of herself in a low-cut dress. The man might say, "she was totally sexting me", and believe it, the woman might say, "I was fully dressed in an outfit seen by hundreds of people at a party, how can that be sexting?", and believe it.
- analog 14y agoHasn't prior research established that men on average overstate sexual experience and women on average understate How would you be able to tell?
- saalweachter 14y agoIn the case of systematic lying it'd be hard, but when the problem is definitions -- what counts as sex and sexting -- you just need to ask more and more detailed questions and then the reasons become obvious.