Okcupid's blog is amazing. We need more people to utilize their masses of data for this level of insight. I only hope everyone can do it with this much class and style.
I'm really curious how the Distribution of singles by age is about the younger people being more comfortable with the Internet. Being 24 I know that I belonged to the last generation that had to discover the Internet, unlike my twelve year old brothers generation where it's something that's eternal and has always been there, and definitely unlike my mother generation that seem to have mostly been taught the Internet from the younger generations. (In Sweden anyway)
I'm amazed OkCupid a free dating site has a 11:9 male:female ratio, I would've thought the males outnumbered the women by much more. I'm happy to see my prejudices invalidated.
The author should've pointed out that one possible reason for women getting less interested in marriage and more interested in casual sex with age might have to do with the ones there are interested in marriage and something serious end up in long term relationships. While the ones that are less interested in something long term keep being single and thus registered on OkCupid. Rather than it seeming like it's only about a change in the female mentality with age.
I really hope they redo this OkTrend (and others) in the future if the site is around as there's such a great opportunity to discover changing mentalities in society towards sex and dating.
( Unrelated, I get to tell the wonderful girl I met on OkCupid that shes in the zone of greatness. :D )
Some fascinating data here. The 'do you enjoy giving oral sex' geographical heat map which is user selectable by age is great. It's kind of hidden at the bottom of the post -- to summarize, older women tend to enjoy it a lot more than younger!
