This survey was originally conceived as a way to figure out "So how many slash fans aren't strictly heterosexual women, anyway?" and began expanding in order to accommodate finer points of "slash", "fan", "strictly", "heterosexual", "sex", "women", and other terms that we thought were pretty nailed down until we actually took a critical look at them. The scope of the survey has likewise expanded to cover many aspects of the complex interrelationship that includes personal sexual orientation -- in identity, activity, inclination, and other aspects -- and slash creation, consumption, and fandom.
As the survey touches on (dwells on, actually) sexual orientation and the sex-positive and sometimes frankly smutty world of slash, it also meanders into questions about one's own personal sexual expression, which is a bit of a touchy topic to divulge to a stranger, particularly when we've expressed up front that we really can't wait to start shaking the data to see what falls out. This is why just about all of the questions have a "decline to answer" or equivalent option.
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This survey was originally conceived as a way to figure out "So how many slash fans aren't strictly heterosexual women, anyway?" and began expanding in order to accommodate finer points of "slash", "fan", "strictly", "heterosexual", "sex", "women", and other terms that we thought were pretty nailed down until we actually took a critical look at them. The scope of the survey has likewise expanded to cover many aspects of the complex interrelationship that includes personal sexual orientation -- in identity, activity, inclination, and other aspects -- and slash creation, consumption, and fandom.
As the survey touches on (dwells on, actually) sexual orientation and the sex-positive and sometimes frankly smutty world of slash, it also meanders into questions about one's own personal sexual expression, which is a bit of a touchy topic to divulge to a stranger, particularly when we've expressed up front that we really can't wait to start shaking the data to see what falls out. This is why just about all of the questions have a "decline to answer" or equivalent option.
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