On herpy.net half of the scalie pics is M/M and even here on e621. Does anyone has any idea why? (Sorry about my english if it's not correct somewhere.)

rainpory said:
On herpy.net half of the scalie pics is M/M and even here on e621. Does anyone has any idea why? (Sorry about my english if it's not correct somewhere.)

It's what the people demand!

Oh, herpy.net. I was thinking herpes, which would make a lot less sense.

I'm not sure about herpy.net because I don't know how they do tagging, but I do think part of the reason might be that scalies tend to put less emphasis on breasts due to them not being mammalian, and may end up getting tagged with male for intersex or ambiguous cases more often than not. That's just my guess.

What I find even more interesting is the distribution of pairings on here:

Some highlights:

• The post difference for male/male and female/female is 3.75:1. Whether this is a tagging issue (undertagged/overtagged) or an availability issue (people arent't drawing it) I'm not sure, but the discrepancy is definitely very noticeable.
• The post difference for cuntboy/male and cuntboy/female is almost 24:1. Even considering that cuntboy/X is probably undertagged, the bigger reason for this discrepancy is (probably) fairly obvious: Ambiguous flat chested characters and tagging conflicts. How interesting is that?
• Even though maleherm isn't very popular, maleherm/male still accounts for ~73% of all maleherm/X tags (including maleherm/maleherm). I think this may say more about the target demographic here than anything. Note: About a month or so ago I actually went through each of the maleherm posts and tagged all the maleherm/x I could find, so these numbers are probably still fairly accurate (even considering the small sample size).

Lol I thought this thread was gonna be about why so many gays have herpes. That would have been a better topic.

ippiki_ookami said:
Lol I thought this thread was gonna be about why so many gays have herpes. That would have been a better topic.

I thought that too... I'm still not sure what this post is about though...

parasprite said:
Oh, herpy.net. I was thinking herpes, which would make a lot less sense.

I'm not sure about herpy.net because I don't know how they do tagging, but I do think part of the reason might be that scalies tend to put less emphasis on breasts due to them not being mammalian, and may end up getting tagged with male for intersex or ambiguous cases more often than not. That's just my guess.

What I find even more interesting is the distribution of pairings on here:

Click for fun numbers and statistics

• male/female ~79600 posts
• male/male ~59000 posts
• female/female ~15700 posts
• intersex/female ~2750 posts
• dickgirl/female ~2200 posts (80%)
• herm/female ~525 posts (19%)
• cuntboy/female* 21 posts (less than 1%)
• maleherm/female 13 posts (less than 1%)
• intersex/male ~2125 posts
• dickgirl/male ~1140 posts (~54%)
• cuntboy/male ~500 posts (~24%)
• herm/male ~400 posts (19%)
• maleherm/male 89 posts (4%)
• intersex/intersex* ~1140 posts
• dickgirl/dickgirl ~660 posts (57.8%)
• dickgirl/herm ~240 posts (21%)
• herm/herm 166 posts (14.6%)
• dickgirl/cuntboy 27 posts (2.4%)
• cuntboy/cuntboy 20 posts (1.8%)
• herm/cuntboy 7 posts (less than 1%)
• maleherm/X*** (intersex only) ~20 posts (1.8%)
• maleherm/dickgirl** 7 posts (less than 1%)
• maleherm/cuntboy** 6 posts (less than 1%)
• maleherm/herm** 4 posts (less than 1%)
• maleherm/maleherm** 3 posts (less than 1%)

*These are probably undertagged, so assume a large margin of error.
**Note that the maleherm/X combinations don't implicate herm/X, even though they probably should.
***This tag doesn't actually exist, but is estimated for illustrative purposes.

Some highlights:

• The post difference for male/male and female/female is 3.75:1. Whether this is a tagging issue (undertagged/overtagged) or an availability issue (people arent't drawing it) I'm not sure, but the discrepancy is definitely very noticeable.
• The post difference for cuntboy/male and cuntboy/female is almost 24:1. Even considering that cuntboy/X is probably undertagged, the bigger reason for this discrepancy is (probably) fairly obvious: Ambiguous flat chested characters and tagging conflicts. How interesting is that?
• Even though maleherm isn't very popular, maleherm/male still accounts for ~73% of all maleherm/X tags (including maleherm/maleherm). I think this may say more about the target demographic here than anything. Note: About a month or so ago I actually went through each of the maleherm posts and tagged all the maleherm/x I could find, so these numbers are probably still fairly accurate (even considering the small sample size).

Thank you for the interesting stats. I made a little excel spreadsheet with the tag stats of 2 month if you are interested.

rainpory said:
Thank you for the interesting stats. I made a little excel spreadsheet with the tag stats of 2 month if you are interested.

I'm always interested in stats. :3

rainpory said:
On herpy.net half of the scalie pics is M/M and even here on e621. Does anyone has any idea why?

Likely because most of the early herp artists (such as Chris Sawyer, Brian Harp and Kaa) drew predominantly M/M art. So the scalie community grew around that, there wasn't much demand for anything else. And most scalies in fiction were male or masculine: Dinosaucers, Digimon (Agumon, Flamedramon, Exveemon), etc. So rule 34 was mostly M/M.

That started to change around the time the second generation of Pokemon was released: suddenly there were a lot of newbies commissioning art of female Charizards, etc. But female scalies remained rare until around the time that Eragon got published.

half of them are homosexual is because the other half is not homosexual c:

tfkcex said:
half of them are homosexual is because the other half is not homosexual c:

Pssh, you forgot about the hundreds of "alternative" sexualities that seem to pop up every day.

Moon_Moon said:
Pssh, you forgot about the hundreds of "alternative" sexualities that seem to pop up every day.

You mean the ones kids today make up to sound cool and to have a reason to feel 'oppressed'?

Moon_Moon said:
Pssh, you forgot about the hundreds of "alternative" sexualities that seem to pop up every day.

Wouldn't those still fall under "not homosexual"?

parasprite said:
Wouldn't those still fall under "not homosexual"?

But then you group em together like that. They need to be represented or else you are oppressing them!

parasprite said:
I'm always interested in stats. :3

Than here you go here is the link : https://www.dropbox.com/s/ffk8umf142lbr7z/e621stats.xlsx?dl=0
I hope you will like it. :)

rainpory said:
Than here you go here is the link : https://www.dropbox.com/s/ffk8umf142lbr7z/e621stats.xlsx?dl=0
I hope you will like it. :)

Neat. Seeing anal/vaginal/oral on that graph makes it look a lot more evenly tagged than I expected.

Just curious, what is the significance of [gay, sex, dragon, v game -p] being within the same block?

parasprite said:
Neat. Seeing anal/vaginal/oral on that graph makes it look a lot more evenly tagged than I expected.

Just curious, what is the significance of [gay, sex, dragon, v game -p] being within the same block?

well when i created this file the male/female tag doesn't excisted so i can't pair it with gay. (sorry my english is not perfect... jet.) So i just put it in the others group, 'couse that group is the others group. I like dragons so that's why i put it there and because dragons are also scalies. Well the other two was just other type for me.

Actually can i help tagging pictures becouse i have a lot of time now in summer holiday.And by lot i mean a LOT.