Mid-year F-List Census: Gender

This is a collection of various charts relating to F-List demographics, with a particular focus on gender and species.

This post discusses F-List genders using the canonical terms. Click here if you prefer the names “purple” and “green”.

Methodology

Figures are gathered by searching for public profiles, noting the number of pages, and then multiplying that value by 10.
It is technically possible for the final page in a search to have fewer than 10 results (10 pages might be 91 profiles), but for the majority of statistics this difference isn’t terribly significant.
If a profile sets itself to private, its existence can’t be accounted for, since it won’t show up in searches. Maybe there’s a secret undead moogle cabal hanging out somewhere on F-Chat. (We can call it the ill-Moogle-nati.)

Except where otherwise stated, the popularity of a gender or of the human species is measured by kink list entries, not orientation or furry preference. The reasons for this are many.

• There are many intersex and non-binary options that do not fit into binary descriptions of orientation.
  • Does a straight herm like males? Cuntboys?
  • Can a gay herm approach a straight shemale with a reasonable expectation of roleplay without orientation-play themes? What about a straight female, or a straight male?
  • Can a pan profile like everything except male-herms, or should they lower themselves to bisexual?
• Species kinks are infinitely more granular than the furry preference options.
  • Can a person with “humans only” like kemonomimi characters?
  • Can a person with “no humans” like elves?
  • Can a person with “no furries” like feral animals?
  • Categories such as “undead” can include both furry and non-furry characters.
• Kink lists allow one to indicate four levels of interest/disinterest, meanwhile…
  • … the orientation options, outside of the bisexual offerings, are comparatively bare.
  • … “no furries” and “furries only” are too broad to paint a meaningful picture of what species people like.

However, this is not without downsides.

• Many people specifically prefer to set things like orientation, furry preference, etc., and don’t prioritize the kink list as much.
  • For some, this might be simply because there’s several hundreds of kinks to fill out.
  • For some, this might be because they like how an empty/custom-only kink list looks.
  • Setting subfetishes can give you custom kinks with the functionality of official kinks, but this is a laborious process that requires a tool that’s not highly visible, and not practical to use across multiple profiles.
• Some gender/species kinks are significantly newer and lack the data that much older kinks have.
  • This is especially obvious with “Trans Males” and “Trans Females” vs. “Transgender”.
    There isn’t a massive demographic that likes trans profiles but excludes trans men and trans women, the more specific kinks just have less data.

In cases where a kink is judged on approval, and the data does not include the fave/yes/maybe/no separation, approval is understood as either fave or yes.

• Humans in “maybe” might be approval of specific kinds of humans.
• Males in “maybe” might be conditional approval like requiring a password or kink.
• It might just vary depending on the user’s mood.

None of the above cases are broad approval, so for simplicity, “maybe” is rolled up with “no”.

Genders

Profiles Created

Kink Popularity

Gender-Gender Popularity Heatmap

This is the most complex any of these charts will get. No API is exposed for these searches, so it’s not practical to compare every species to every species kink.

Gender Observations

• Most of F-List prefers playing as binary sexes, or is just lazy.

  • Many of these (unselected) profiles can be chalked up to name-hoarding, or icons existing before the eicon implementation, though these aren’t necessarily the only reasons.

• There are almost twice as many shemale profiles as there are hermaphrodite profiles.

• In meatspace, males outnumber females, but on F-List, the opposite is true.

• People would rather be specifically genderless instead of being a male intersex.

• Femininity is always popular.

  • Females outperform males on all metrics. (More approval, more profiles, less disapproval.)
  • Hermaphrodites outperform male-herms on all metrics.
  • Shemales outperform cuntboys on all metrics.
  • Transfems outperform transmascs on all metrics.
  • With the exception of intersexes, masculine genders tend to enjoy similar popularity to their feminine counterparts.

• Everybody loves cis females.

  • 52% of all assignments are “favorite”.
  • 83% of all assignments are “favorite” or “yes”.

• Nobody feels very strongly about nonbinary characters.

  • 43% of all assignments are “yes”.

• Masculine intersexes have it rough.

  • 38% of all cuntboy assignments are “no”.
  • 60% of all cuntboy assignments are “maybe” or “no”.
  • 37% of all male-herm assignments are “no”.
  • 60% of all male-herm assignments are “maybe” or “no”.

• “Nonbinary” and “transgender” are vague enough that people would rather choose “yes” or “maybe” instead of “favorite” or “no”.

  • 63% of all transgender (not including fem/masc/nb) assignments are “yes” or “maybe”.
  • 68% of all nonbinary assignments are “yes” or “maybe”.

• Shemales are the most popular intersex kink, followed closely by hermaphrodites. While obviously they’re just popular, a few factors to consider:

  • Girlcock enjoyers tend to cluster very closely together, and they also have multiple open channels dedicated to themselves.
  • Gynephilic bluenames can expand their range of potential partners by just… playing a more feminine character. If one prefers to top, shemale is a pretty appealing option.

• Male-herms are a bastion of love and acceptance.

  • They give a 66% approval rate to cis females.
  • They give a 93% approval rate to cis males.

• Cuntboys are slightly less accepting than male-herms, but love males more. They don’t like cis females very much.

  • They give a 59% approval rate to cis females.
  • They give a 95% approval rate to cis males.

• Males have a stick up their ass about intersex men (the boy-love is not mutual!), but are otherwise pretty neutral.

  • They give a ~40% approval rate to cuntboys and male-herms, a 72% approval rate for other males, and a ~50% approval rate to all other genders.

• Females and shemales hate intersex men even more.

  • Both give cuntboys a 31% approval rate.
  • Females give male-herms a 35% approval rate.
  • Shemales give male-herms a 26% approval rate, the lowest-compatibility combo.

• Most of F-List says “trans rights”.

  • Shemales are the only gender to give the transgender kink a sub-50% approval rate.
    • Shemales last online within 365 days give the same kink a 66% approval rate.
    • Shemales created within 365 days give the same kink a 71% approval rate.
  • Females and males both give the transgender kink an approval rate slightly above 50%.
  • Who loves transgender characters the most? Transgender characters, duh.
  • Out of all public profiles (1526750)…
    • 124770 (8.1%) mark either Trans Females, Transgender, Trans Males, or Nonbinary as “no”.
    • 27950 (1.8%) mark all four as “no”.
  • Out of all transgender characters (23920)…
    • 12750 (53%) do not have Trans Females/Transgender/Trans Males/Nonbinary in their “favorite” or “yes” lists.
    • 840 (3.5%) mark either Trans Females, Transgender, Trans Males, or Nonbinary as “no”.
    • 39 (0.16%; not a typo, that’s less than four full pages) mark all four as “no”.