despite their best efforts i seem to have some data on how taking estrogen affects sexual preferences now, tho
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Can you DM me what you have on this or point me to what you found? Super curious...
I've been reading research papers on how/whether E and T affect sexual preferences for like the last three days because I've been wondering about this
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There's anecdotal reports of hormonal birth control affecting levels of same-sex interest for bi (genetic) women explicitly and _some_ supporting research but a ton of studies also show no impact on pref across all populations and it's hard to sort out noise
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on phone now but it was looking like yes, changes trans women to prefer being more submissive, more nonconsent scenarios. More stuff across the board, too!
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this is interesting--useful things to examine from self-reported changes are like:
- variation on type of method (andro suppressor? / gonadectomy? / estro delivery method?)
- length of time on hormones
- original preferences and change across time
basically no one has data
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I asked how long on hormones, but not hormone method or base rates of fetishes.
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baaah I mean understandable but unfortunately it's very hard to theorize a lot of useful info about what might be causing a trend without those things
there's SO many personal factors that can influence preference in play here; age/mental state/conceptions of gendered behavior
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I did ask about age! but yeah the survey wasn't super exhaustive. I do think it might still be useful thoigh; for example ppl raise in submissiveness but don't drop as much in dominance, which feels inconsistent with an idea ppl are self deceiving about their sexual preferences
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I wonder if that’s a comfort thing, like you’re more okay being submissive and vulnerable when your dysphoria is reduced.
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you believe women are sub and it's gender affirming to play a sub role but the pref isn't stable
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spiro reduces dom pref but you still perceive yourself as having a pref you don't anymore
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it's easier to find a male partner as sub and it's shifted your pref
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i've added two basic hormone questions into my big survey. i don't ask about changes in the big survey, but i do ask about just flat 'what are you into' (and also stuff like age, are u in a relationship, personality, etc.)
hmm how stable are kinks and prefs generally anyway?
can someone "learn to" be _really_ into something new as an adult via exposure? 🤔
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i haven't asked toooo much about stability, but I do have one question asking if ppl think they developed new fetishes based on watching porn.
(first graph is for biological males, second for biological females)
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