The Clit Gap
March 24, 2023
Each time I open a new fic to read and I'm specifically looking for porn, If the result I get when searching for the word 'Clit' is 0, I'm closing the tab and not bothering at all. And the amount of times this happens is highly significant, to the point that I am now motivated to make this article about the actual numbers of how much and/or often the clit is recognized, in addition to activities that focus on pleasuring the vagina.
The numbers presented are based on the keywords the specific sites use, and are the numbers that are currently present at the time of writing this artcle.
AO3: 238,628 Works in Blow Jobs |VS| 75,342 Works in Cunnilingus
Gelbooru: Fellatio: 127,162 |VS| Cunnilingus: 20,696
Literotica: Blowjob: 28,661 |VS| Cunnilingus: 1,741
e621: Fellatio: 123K |VS| Cunnilingus: 27K
Pixiv: Fellatio: 135,554 |VS| Cunnilingus: 14,501
Itaku: Fellatio: 2139 |VS| Cunnilingus: 547
Hentai foundry of all places, fellatio has 185 results and cunnilingus has 394 results in the story search.
But for images, fellatio has 2026 results and cunnilingus has 1750 results. Though it still remains the closest in ratio for all the rest. (however it has the poorest category system of all the services I've referenced so take that as you will.)
Now, I'm aware that cunnilingus isn't the only means of stimulating the clit, the problem is, if I look up vaginal fingering there's no guarantee that I'll find it in there either. For some more numbers, here's some tags for different types of fingering on AO3:
148,038 works in Anal Fingering |VS| 92,607 Works in Vaginal Fingering
Even worse? The existence of a tag to indicate there is any interaction with the clit at all, either it does not exist or is forgotten. This lack of recognition is even more glaring when you consider Nipple Play is tagged for rather consistently.
AO3: 34,601 Works in Nipple Play |VS| Clit Play: 274 | Clitoral Stimulation: 331
Gelbooru: Nipple Tweak: 20,980 |VS| Clitoral Stimulation: 4,147
Pixiv: Nipple Stimulation: 39,323 |VS| Clitoral Stimulation: 13,584
(it's worth noting that the ratio and overall count of clit stim content on Pixiv is the best because they are the first service to tag for it back in 2007, the first year the service existed. Newgrounds, which didn't have tags until 2009, had its first use of the tag clit-play in 2018. The oldest use of both Clit Play and Clitoral Stimulation on AO3 is in 2013, but I have no way of checking if the entry was back-dated or the tag was added after the fact.)
Attention to the clit is so under-acknowledged people don't even know to tag for it in the first place. I'm certain there's more work out there than the numbers indicate, but if people don't know there's a tag to use they won't know to use it. It doesn't help that AO3 doesn't even categorize either of the Clit Play or Clitoral Stimulation tags as a common tag. Nipples, which can be sexually stimulating but are not a sex organ like the clit, gets more recognition than the clit, which a sex organ for the sole purpose of providing sexual pleasure so why not ensure there's a tag that lets a reader know it's present in a work.
Please, do you understand why I'm exhausted?
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