You’re basically talking about human telemetry. Such systems have existed, particularly in the space program. Currently, there are lots of telemetry options for humans, most of which are uncomfortable to wear.

As for how they would feel about it, I think it depends on who has access to the data. If you do, and you control who else can access it, then it seems like it could be a very useful thing. However, if people can crack access to your telemetry, and use that data to their own ends, even if not directly to your detriment, I think such a system would be difficult to live with.

The only problem I see is that I’m the one who has to log them, and I’m usually not conscious enough to do so right after I’ve had one, which means I forget all the time. As you may have noticed, I have not logged into my account in quite a few months. What would be truly revolutionary is if you could create some tool which monitored peoples’ bodies and kept track of their orgasms (and you know, every other bodily function, 24/7). I wonder what those same confused parties would think then.

There are definitely changes/improvements that could be made, but even as it is, I find it invaluable.

xx Dee

It would not have occurred to me to log orgasms. I see how it is useful to people, and I could probably find other ways to find it useful for myself. Still, I find it uncomfortable to gather any sort of metrics about myself. I find it more uncomfortable to publish those metrics, or allow them to be in someone else’s control.

Maybe the puzzled people are puzzled about the privacy implications. Why would someone publish this? Why would someone allow someone else to track this? But I think also the degree of automation is confusing to people – particularly people who don’t have a clear sense of how much or who little time and effort would be required to create the tool.

More on the topic, I love the idea of orgasm logger. I remember taking a look, but I think it didn’t work on mac-only platform. Once I get the new OS, I’ll be trying it.

Orgasm Logger is a web site that should work with any standards-compliant web browser, regardless of the Operating System platform. The only requirements are that the browser supports and has cookies enabled, as well as JavaScript. These are requirements that I was hoping to make even more lax when I next get a chance at revamping the code.

But the fact of the matter is that the web site is running on a Mac OS X Server computer, so I know for a fact a Mac-only platform should have no ill effects on the functioning of the site. If you’re running into a specific problem using the tool, give me a holler and I’ll work through it with you.

More on the topic, I love the idea of orgasm logger. I remember taking a look, but I think it didn’t work on mac-only platform. Once I get the new OS, I’ll be trying it.

Bad analogy, May. More orgasms don’t make you more or less wealthy – they have an intrinsic value to you and you alone (and okay, a small value to your partner).

I don’t see how this doesn’t work, possibly because you and I may understand money differently from one another. The point I’m making is that neither orgasms or money have intrinsic value. Both are valuable because of some other reason, such as what they can give us, how they make us feel, what we enjoy doing, and so on and so forth. Of course having more or less orgasms don’t make you more or less wealthy, but frankly neither does money.

And if you disagree there, then I’d challenge you to reconsider your definition of wealthy. What makes a rich man rich, Tom?

I started using a timer program and keeping track of them on my Palm. It was a countdown timer (how many dauy until xxx), but it worked just fine as a countup time, and you could see how long it had been at a glance.

Not that I ever had much of a problem there. :-\ When you haven’t come for 42 days, you sort of have a mental clock going.

No one would have looked at me askance if I wrote improvements to banking software, because money is very important to a lot of people.

Bad analogy, May. More orgasms don’t make you more or less wealthy – they have an intrinsic value to you and you alone (and okay, a small value to your partner). However, you do ask a good question in wondering why people are so surprised, almost as if tracking them is unwarranted.

Reading around the blogging world, one finds people in bad relationships in which one partner complains about the libido disparity (usually a High Libido Partner complaining about a Low Libido Partner). Bringing up an argument about “the last time we had sex” is often viewed as a cheap shot, but sometimes it’s instructive to both parties to see objectively just how long partners go.

I once had a LLP who swore that we had sex “almost every week” (as if it were a lot). I started keeping a calendar, and for several months I tracked that we had sex maybe once every two or three weeks (no, I can’t imagine why someone wouldn’t want to have sex with me three times a week, either). When I brought this up in our joint counseling session it became a very objective point, instead of her saying that I was “oversexed” or “perverted”, we could actually discuss the issue at hand.

Umm, of course, we didn’t have sex for at least a month afterwards, though, because I made her feel embarrassed in front of the therapist. But now I’m rambling…