Comments on: Fleshmap: crowdsourcing sex

By: sos media

sos media — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:12:05 +0000

Interesting finds. Its funny to use such technological science to figure out such a subtle personal preference and then graph it like this.

By: brendano

brendano — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:23:48 +0000

Izzen and David: these are just a few images from the entire site fleshmap.com . Look there.

By: David

David — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:03:50 +0000

# Raw Shark Says:
May 15th, 2009 at 7:27 pm

So why does the male show front and back desire to be touched …but the female only has back views with 2 different fields?

I agree with this fellow, I want to know the front as well.

By: Izzen

Izzen — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:51:21 +0000

I was also wondering why there was no Female to Male “desire to touch” map. We like it to touch too! Maybe the voters just weren’t as open about it…

I also notice that the Female “desire to be touched” map is much more evenly distributed than either Male perspective map; I think that the response is greater, sometimes, if that desire (like touching the back and neck) is only occasionally indulged. We might like it more because those areas are neglected in daily interaction. We don’t touch anyone but lovers anymore…

By: glassgun

glassgun — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:10:21 +0000

By: Raw Shark

Raw Shark — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:27:57 +0000

So why does the male show front and back desire to be touched …but the female only has back views with 2 different fields?

By: Alex Pilafian

Alex Pilafian — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:33:51 +0000

please do what comment #7 says.

By: Gregory Kohs

Gregory Kohs — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:31:47 +0000

I’m going to give you your next great idea…

Produce a user-clicked heat map of the United States, asking “Assuming you could find appropriate work and income, where in the United States would you most like to live? You may choose your current area, too.”

In exchange for this brilliant idea, you and your readers have to watch the 10-minute video on my website, linked through my name above. Fair deal? ;-)

By: james

james — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:30:25 +0000

nice one

By: nicole

nicole — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:04:19 +0000

great article thank you for the nice read

By: Hadley

Hadley — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:35:02 +0000

Interesting data and lovely visualisations, but please make sure your bar graphs start at 0!

By: Brendan O'Connor

Brendan O'Connor — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:35:58 +0000

jln: Thanks for the kind words, and the information from your performance experiences. That’s pretty interesting.

Adrian: I really don’t know, but I do know that some people have ascribed it to how sensitive different areas of the body are. The feet have few nerves compared to other parts of the body.

By: Adrian Kuhn

Adrian Kuhn — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:28:07 +0000

I wonder why know one want to touch, be touched at the feet. Do you have an explanation?

By: jln

jln — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:40:52 +0000

I love it… the informative content is not scoop, of course, but the process to ask people, the idea of thousands of clicks on pictures, and the results very nicely visualized make it a very strong piece. It’s net-art really using the web.

When I first discovered Dolores Lab a few month ago, via the color experiment, I thought that I should do a piece using your services. But now the standard is raised, and I better think of something really cool !

Anyway, i’m doing a web based info-sculpture, due to be online next year (around women street harassment stories) and Fleshmap is really an inspiration to continue my project.

PS : “straight men are the least likely to report wanting to be touched”
It’s purely anecdotal, but I’ve seen that in my performance art work too. Women for example engage a lot more easily in the performance. But in my experience men over 45 seems to be more open to play with their body, in an performance art context. Do you confirm ? (do they older men like more to be touched than younger men ??)