So, in the continuing fallout from boobiegate, I responded to a point in drownedinink's post. On further reflection, my point was based on an unexamined assumption on my part. So I'd like to examine it.

I'm not limiting this to my sex-filter, because I'm not, but if you don't think you'd like to participate or read the results of a poll discussing body parts, don't click on the cut, okay?


I'll try to word this poll as carefully as I can. And, of course, if it makes you uncomfortable to participate, don't participate.

To be clear, what I'm asking in the first three questions is for the women who read this to rank their breasts, buttocks, and genitals in order from most private to least private. In the fourth, I'm asking you to qualitatively compare your feelings about your breasts being touched with your feelings about touching various male body parts, and in the fifth, I'm asking you to tell me how closely you think those two things match up.

Poll #1176555 FOR SCIENCE
Open to: All, results viewable to: None

I am a woman, and, among breasts, buttocks, and genitals, I would rank my breasts...

I am a woman, and, among breasts, buttocks, and genitals, I would rank my buttocks...

I am a woman, and, among breasts, buttocks, and genitals, I would rank my genitals...

I am a woman at least sometimes interested in men, and, in level of privacy, intimacy, and sexual suggestion (not sexual feeling), I would say that touching my breasts is most analogous to...

As a follow-up to question 4, with "1" meaning "I don't really think they're at all similar but you made me pick something" and 10 being "I'd say they're pretty much exactly the same in my mind," how similar in level of privacy, intimacy, and sexual suggestion would you say touching your breasts is to the option you chose?

Mostly unrelated bonus question on which EVERYONE can play: My preferred term for a woman's genitalia is...

Mostly unrelated bonus question on which EVERYONE can play: My preferred term for a man's genitalia is...