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[moominmolly]

I want a little clicker, a handheld counter thing, so that I can hit a button every time I think about sex. I'm really curious. I think I'd especially like to see a little graph showing the times of the button-presses so that I could see when I was more and less likely to let myself, er, wander. It would have to be small enough to tote around all the time, though, and not be a nuisance -- pilot-based solutions would really not work. Ideally, I'd also like to see the graphs of a thousand other people who had clickers as well, but that seems unlikely.

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[tikva.livejournal.com]

Jesus. I'd get an RSI.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Damn, good point! At this rate, so would I.

[baronet.livejournal.com]

I'd carry one of those hand-clickers around. It would at least produce a daily total, if not a time-dependant graph...

I guess i'm a freak.

[trysha.livejournal.com]

I can estimate 10-20 times in a MONTH that i have thought about sex.

Re: I guess i'm a freak.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

What I find interesting for me is that it varies so much! I can go long periods without thinking about it really at all, but then there will be times when it's just all over the place to me. Especially in long, boring meetings. Maybe more useful would be a multi-year graph of my sex thoughts over time...

Modify an electronic watch...

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

...so that it has a time log. Then you can tap away and move unnoticed among the non-horned.

Uh-oh, embedded mods revolving around sexual thinking in an OCD-centric research model...

-ding, Dante

Re: Modify an electronic watch...

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

There are watches with "lap counters", but most of them seem to stop at 99. I mean, I have no idea what the number would turn out to be. Why limit myself?

Home-modded digital watches. Hmmm.

Re: Modify an electronic watch...

[srd.livejournal.com]

You know, if it's that frequently...
There are watches you can use to count bpms... Just note the frequency, not the absolutes. And hold down the counter while you're actually thinking about it. I mean, does thinking twice briefly about it in a minute really count twice as much as a 10 minute fantasy?

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

this is the best plan ever.

here is the item you are looking for. they're only nine bucks a pop.

in fact, i think this is such a great idea that i'm going to order one of these counters for this very purpose. who else wants in? a bulk order will save on shipping.

it's currently thursday afternoon. respond to this comment by 4:30 pm tomorrow (that's friday, june 7) if you want me to order a counter for you. or email vecna_99@NOSPAMyahoo.com after removing NOSPAM.

provided you're located more or less in the Boston area, i'll be happy to deliver your counter (and take your nine bucks) once they arrive. if you're not in the Boston area, PayPal $9 to the email address given above, and we'll chat. :)

i can't wait to see the statistics from this!

-steve

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

nice! I'm in.

I'm in

[zsquirrelboy.livejournal.com]

Get me one too. This could be useful. Shame we couldn't get something with Serial/USB/IR interface...

Only aggrigate results...

[zsquirrelboy.livejournal.com]

Which is also a problem. It'd be cool if we had something that could record each individual date/time datum. We'd be able to make *much* more elaborate graphs with that information...

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

A not-quite-as-handy but geekier alternative is to take a cheap pocket calculator, enter +1, cover over everything but the = key, and then hit = when you want to add to the count.

[baronet.livejournal.com]

I'm in. Get me one.

UPDATE - 4:39 PM

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

ok, i've ordered six clickers, one for me, three for respondents in this thread, and two for email respondents. i'll keep y'all posted.

-steve

Aaahhh! It's the Doc clicker!

[fishfoo.livejournal.com]

*shudder* I think the sex-thought-clicker is a fantastic idea (though, like others, my graph would be more interesting on a num-thoughts-per-day basis rather than num-thoughts-per-hour), but that clicker is the exact model we used at Doc. It'd just make me think of betrayal and bitterness. Not that I need that much help...

because i'm such a geek

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

you can track the clickers here.

they're in Worcester now...

-steve

Re: because i'm such a geek

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

geek. :)

Re: because i'm such a geek

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

woo! this looks promising:

Jun 24, 2002 2:12 P.M. WATERTOWN-BACK BAY, MA, US DELIVERY

SCORE!

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

rockin! clickers are in my possession. will be contacting y'all to arrange transfers... molly, you got a mailing address over there? :)

w00t,
steve

Re: SCORE!

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I think the fastest and surest means of delivery would be to give it to David (http://www.livejournal.com/users/dilletante) and have him ferry it to me next week. :)

Yaaaaay!

thinking about thinking

[cos]

Wouldn't thinking about thinking about sex, alter how often you think about it? How can you measure when you know you're measuring? And how often would you think about thinking about sex? Would you count that?

Re: thinking about thinking

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I don't think that thinking about thinking about sex counts as a sex thought. It has to be honestly carnal. :) I think it would alter my count for a little while, but that it would quickly settle back down to what's passing for normal right now. Maybe I'm wrong! No idea.

Re: thinking about thinking

[arib.livejournal.com]

Would that fall under the heading of meta-thinking about sex?

[fluzby.livejournal.com]

You could get one of those toe clickers that professional card counters/gamblers use that are hidden in the toe of their shoes. It would make things easier as you wouldn't even need to have a hand free to click.

BTDTGTTS

[fishfoo.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, "real" card counters don't use clickers... they're too difficult to reset when the count goes to zero (i.e., the deck is shuffled). I suppose you could come up with situations in which a clicker might be useful, but it's pretty certain to blow your cover, and you're really better off just learning to count in your head.

Anyway, even if you could find a clicker which could decrement the values in addition to incrementing them, many of the better counting systems value cards as fractional values, such as +1.5, -0.5, and so on. In blackjack, anyway -- I don't know much about counting systems for other games, since most other casino games aren't beatable under even the best of circumstances

[wandra.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.... what would count as a time? Two seconds? Half an hour? A weekend? And...erm...what if you didn't have your hands free?

:-)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

well, the incidents I'm thinking of include the little two-second thoughts all the way up to the "too busy to click a button" moments. :)

I wonder if

[andreas_schaefer]

any of you have read Brian Aldiss 'The Primal Urge'.
Something like that but maybe aless obvious and with a date time stamp is what you ( we, as I am as curious ) really want.

[tablesaw]

This is obviously an idea that appeals to people who are having much more sex than I.

What, me frustrated?

[ectropy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no kidding...

[network.livejournal.com]

Click.

[fishfoo.livejournal.com]

Click! (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1561633186/)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I now find myself quietly saying "click" when I think prurient thoughts. :)

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

ok, now i feel slightly less silly about doing it myself. :)

the frighteningly helpful and pleasant customer service rep from AthleticStuff.com tells me that the clickers should ship tomorrow and be in Boston by the end of the week. business at internet speed, my arse.

but i'm supposed to get a tracking number tomorrow, which will enable me to be even more obsessive about it.

-steve

problem (?) with this suggestion

[crs.livejournal.com]

This runs into the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in a big way - you can't measure a thing without affecting it.

If you go through with this, you will now have a little "sex talisman" you are carrying around with you. When your hand reaches down to your pocket and you realize you are carrying the clicker, your mind will wander to thinking about the reason you're carrying it, and you'll think about sex. *click*

Is this a problem with the idea? Depends on your goals. :)

Re: problem (?) with this suggestion

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Noooooooooo! Not the sex talisman! Eeeeeeee!

It's a fair cop, I just think that this would still be an amusing exercise.

Re: problem (?) with this suggestion

[dot_fennel]

I think this is more likely to reduce the amount of time I spend thinking about sex, because as soon as I click the counter I'll feel silly consciously going back to whatever I was thinking before. But still, too interesting not to try doing.

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

Man, does this sound like an interesting experiment.

The problem is, it'd pretty much be a continous push for large chunks of the day.

[veek.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh nonononono.

Not while I'm in London and far away from, I don't.