<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0c2e3133-2446-4c1d-ad48-aaa66bef7fe6/08F01922-B824-4062-9B63-F5A94D055CE7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/08/fleshmap-crowdsourcing-sex/" href="http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/08/fleshmap-crowdsourcing-sex/" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.doloreslabs.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/08/fleshmap-crowdsourcing-sex/"> <P>We all know crowds can tell us the <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds">weight of an ox</A>, but can they help us in bed?</p> <P>With artists <A href="http://www.fernandaviegas.com/">Fernanda Viegas</A> and <A href="http://www.bewitched.com/">Martin Wattenberg</A>, we took pictures of the nude human body, and asked people online to rate how much they’d like to touch, or be touched at, different positions all over the body. Here is where men most like to be touched, front and back:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/08/fleshmap-crowdsourcing-sex/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.doloreslabs.com/img/4B27D235-F39D-4E5D-B0D5-28E0EC5C3CA7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/08/fleshmap-crowdsourcing-sex/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.doloreslabs.com/img/13399349-6FC6-4B28-8D1C-4A15A19D5C4C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/08/fleshmap-crowdsourcing-sex/"><P>Some patterns jump out — for example, the back of the neck seems to be a neglected area. (Take note!) But otherwise, desire to touch and be touched seem pretty well matched up.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/08/fleshmap-crowdsourcing-sex/"><P>What’s also interesting about this experiment is that, despite the subjectiveness of the task and large variability in the data, patterns still emerge. To get some idea of how noisy the data is, here are rating histograms for several of the “desire to be touched” locations for women. (You can explore all body locations with the <A href="http://fleshmap.com/touch/sorting.html">Sorting Out Desire</A> visualization.)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/08/fleshmap-crowdsourcing-sex/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.doloreslabs.com/img/9F3A85C9-32B3-43F3-B49C-6C1BC9C695CD" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/08/fleshmap-crowdsourcing-sex/">We had from 20 to 50 responses for most positions. While there are clear differences between these</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/08/fleshmap-crowdsourcing-sex/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.doloreslabs.com/img/8D8BBAA7-8845-4628-830A-D6B54A29713B" alt="picture-24.png" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/08/fleshmap-crowdsourcing-sex/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.doloreslabs.com/img/C63BCF4E-3076-420F-90E0-31F7AD147F6F" alt="touch-by-age.png" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/08F01922-B824-4062-9B63-F5A94D055CE7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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