IBM Researchers and Dolores Labs did an interesting crowdsourcing experiment with amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk.
They showed men and women a body image with a random point highlighted. Would they like to touch their lover there, and separately, would they want to be touched there?
30,000 point ratings aggregate into a heat map of desire – interesting in isolation and in contrast across scenarios.
Here you see where each gender desires to be touched. Not too surprising.
But when you compare to where their lovers think they want to be touched, a few subtle differences emerge, providing guidance. For men, dingle and dangle could use a bit more attention. For women, the back of the neck is more sensual than you might imagine. Otherwise, you probably know where to go.
You can do other Fleshmap pair-wise comparisons here.
Across the straight/bisexual/gay gender matrix, the group least interested in being touched, on average: straight men. Go figure. But the other men bring the overall male average higher than the overall female average. Even older men (over 50) have higher scores than the most desirous female cohort –the 20-30 year olds. (from Dolores Blog)
All good food for thought as I depart for Utah…
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