Some should - given that is precisely what has happened, or put more accurately "has been connived at by the BBC".Little waster wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2019 9:58 am
You see it a lot in newspapers reports of "shock" survey results where Option A: Vaguely defined thing which could be interpreted as either something tediously humdrum and everyday or possibly something mildly scandalous/worrying which gets 45% response is lumped in with Option B: Something clearly worrying but thankfully uncommon on 4% and Option C: Something absolutely terrible but which is almost unheard of on <1% to produce the desired headline "50% of people have experienced Option C-type things!!!!"
*I'm not saying that's what happened here.
https://www.comresglobal.com/polls/bbc- ... mber-2019/
full data = https://www.comresglobal.com/wp-content ... 119cdh.pdf
Is slapping a powerful blow to the face, or a passing contact with minimal power delivered to a buttock ? Was the blow delivered in rage, or with expressed dominance, or as a passing silliness on the way to a soft embrace ? Does hair pulling involve detaching measurable numbers of hairs at the root, or just the vaguest restraint by briefly holding a pony tail, or is it the result of clumsiness by leaning on flowing tresses ? What constitutes spitting ? Any use of saliva as a lubricant, intentional or deliberate dribbling, spitballing or only a violent expulsion of saliva that mirrors highly aggressive and degrading behaviour in a public context ? Is gagging the result of a deliberate action or of clumsiness ? Is it the gentle placing of hand to stifle a cry of pleasure or done with the intention to inhibit breathing ?
Without explicit definition the results of those questions are meaningless, yet thrown in with the possibilities of innocent harm free interactions is the unambiguously dangerous practice of throat constriction which inevitably colours how the results are read in their entirety.
At best the survey shows the subjective and unexaminable experience of some individuals whose only commonality is that they identify as female and of a certain age, beyond that it tells us nothing about human sexuality, certainly nothing about how sexuality in the UK may be changing.