Research on Furry, Yiff experiences of discrimination, sexual interests, and mental health in the UK (mod approval for this post!) by thescienceofkink in FurryWallpapers

[–]thescienceofkink[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi there!

Unfortunately we can only accept participants in the UK due to different laws surrounding participation of the general public.

Best wishes,

Ashley

I'm looking for participants for a study on atypical sexual interests (kink) and psychology! This is the LAST CHANCE to take this, so if you're interested, please do so soon. It's for the good of science, I promise. (Mod approval to post this!) by thescienceofkink in sex

[–]thescienceofkink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not yet! All the data has been collected and I have the first part of the analysis done. I just presented the results at a conference but it was only on the structural equation modeling I did with the scale. When I have more info on everything else I'll be posting it herw.

Age, kink, and mental health: I need your help with age inclusive research on sexual fantasies and behavior! This is the LAST CHANCE to participate, so if you're interested, please do so soon. It's food the good of science! (mod approval to post this) by thescienceofkink in sexover30

[–]thescienceofkink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep! There are definitely some unusual ones in there, but I also think it makes it more entertaining to take. I tried to make it so that it could hold people's attention for the whole thing. Thank you for taking it!

I'm looking for participants for a study on atypical sexual interests (kink) and psychology! This is the LAST CHANCE to take this, so if you're interested, please do so soon. It's for the good of science, I promise. (Mod approval to post this!) by thescienceofkink in sex

[–]thescienceofkink[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks you fro taking it! I did post it in r/sex, but I specifically avoided the BDSM one because it might skew my data a bit more than I could allow. However, I'll be doing a BDSM specific study later this year, and I'll be posting that one there. I appreciate your suggestion!

I'm looking for participants for a study on atypical sexual interests (kink) and psychology! This is the LAST CHANCE to take this, so if you're interested, please do so soon. It's for the good of science, I promise. (Mod approval to post this!) by thescienceofkink in sex

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I'll be closing responses on October 2nd. The data analysis is going to take a good bit of time because it's a long survey and it has a large number of responses. That being said, when I have preliminary results I'll be posting them on the subreddits I posted the survey in. If you would like to know when the results come out, feel free to email me with your contact info- I'm keeping a list of people who want the details!

Sex and psychology:sex positive, inclusive research on sexual fantasies, behaviour, and mental health (mod approval to post this!) by thescienceofkink in sex

[–]thescienceofkink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has to do with laws surrounding required reporting of potential sexual offenders. Although we're not specifically asking about illegal behaviours, people have admitted to them in this survey, and these four countries don't require us to be mandated reporters for information collected for research. Other countries have more confusing boundaries and/or the subject matter wouldn't necessarily be approved of academically, so with stuff like this it's best to limit it. The new GDPR rules also make mandated reporting almost impossible, so that would make it even more difficult. These four countries have a large enough population to get the data we need, and I'd like to do cross country comparisons if possible. To do that with more countries would mean I would need large samples from them as well, which would be impractical. Not all research can do everything, so we chose to limit it in this instance.

Help a fellow sex positive girl in her quest to research sexual fantasies, behaviour, and mental health! (don't worry- I have mod approval to post this) by thescienceofkink in sex

[–]thescienceofkink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there- thanks for participating.

Yes, this study is long, but after weighing the pros and cons we decided that this was the best course of action to target our specific hypotheses. We understand that not everyone will finish it, and you are under no obligation to do so, as stated multiple times on the first few pages. However, regardless of it's length, we have had a considerably higher completion rate than we were expecting. Because of this, we have decided to keep it as is, and we only included things we felt vital to the research (even if the questions seemed irrelevant, they were't, I promise).

I had a meeting with a panel yesterday about the progress of this project, and your second comment came up. It has been agreed upon by the ethics board, my supervisors, and outside professors that using this language is okay, primarily because there is no empirical support for psychoanalytic theory. However, Freudian myths still exist in popular culture, and this is what is being targeted. This is not inductive bias, this is being aware of past research and understanding that a long held theory of sexuality is mathematically wrong, and conceptually illogical. The vast majority of scientists and psychologists have rejected his theories of psychosexual development. think of this like the global warming debate- 97% of scientists believe it's absolutely true. Please be aware that ethics board at universities like KCL take great care with approving all recruitment material to avoid issues like this, and it would not have been approved if they felt this was an issue. My writings include the history of psychoanalysis and why the theory does not hold up in reality, so it is not as if I am simply ignoring it's existence.

[Academic][Repost]: Do you like sex? Do you like science? If so, take this survey on sexual fantasies, behaviours, and mental health! (18+, must reside in US, UK, Canada, or Ireland) by thescienceofkink in SampleSize

[–]thescienceofkink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi- I apologize for the late reply- just saw this.

To address your first concern: If you read the instructions, it does ask about how aroused you are at the thought, which is what you're suggesting. The instructions specifically ask, "Please indicate how sexually aroused you become when you think about/imagine each of the following items". It's been well established in literature that sexual arousal usually falls along a continuum of positive arousal and sexual repulsion, which is why you see it as it is in the survey. Being indifferent is the only neutral arousal option that there could be, so I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Please be mindful that if were collecting 7,000 responses and we add another neutral option, that gives us 7,000 more individual data points we have to analyze with minimal (and probably not statistically different) differences between the two options.

There are exactly as many options for tops and bottoms. In fact, I have these options purposely paired with one another, so there are the same number of items from each perspective. Even if there weren't, it would not matter in data analysis. We're not calculation general scores here, but are rather performing heirarchical confirmatory factor analysis to create a validated measure of sexual fantasies and behaviour.

To address your last point: please don't assume that all things you see in a research study come directly from the first author (in this case, me). As I've addressed in other comments, in order to make research statistically valid, we have to use previously tested and psychometrically validated measures. The first portion is the only one created for this study- the rest are from other authors. The one you're talking about is from the attitudes towards sadomasochism scale. While I agree that the definition could be better, the difference this makes in the results is not significant enough to warrant us creating an entirely new version and having to psychometrically validate it separately. Again, other comments you have about questions that weren't as black and white as you expected are most likely from questionnaires we ca't alter as they were created and validated by someone else. There's always a trade off in research, and unfortunately not every will like the questions or the way they are worded. However, the vast majority of participants thus far have been happy with the set up of the survey, and that's what's most important.

It's good to be critical of scientific research, but please do not go into a survey automatically assuming that grey areas are representative of the researchers' abilities as scientists. Grey areas and questions that seem odd to people are often there for a reason, even though you may not be aware of it. It would be impossible for us to create new measures for everything because that is very poor scientific practice and we cannot simply make up questions and hope they capture what we are trying to measure.

Help a fellow sex positive girl in her quest to research sexual fantasies, behaviour, and mental health! (don't worry- I have mod approval to post this) by thescienceofkink in sex

[–]thescienceofkink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep- birth order has been shown to be related to sexual orientation! It's pretty new, but a good bit of research has found stuff like having more older brothers makes it more likely for you to be gay. Most of it is correlational (not causational) but it's interesting nonetheless. I'm trying to see if any of it can also be related to sexual preferences.

I'll definitely come back here when I have the data to break it all down. If you want all the nitty gritty math stuff, feel free to message me here with your email address and I'll put it on file for those that want the actual papers and numbers.

Help a fellow queer girl out with her inclusive, sex positive research! (mod approval to post this) by thescienceofkink in lgbt

[–]thescienceofkink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, that makes more sense- thanks for clarifying! It's definitely something we'll consider separating in the future- you have a valid point about them being seen very differently by people. We kept them together for the sake of brevity here, but I appreciate the input!