To supplement the initial poll, I ended up creating a sub-poll: https://lgbtqia.space/@h3mmy/114719436104615494

With 91 voters responding, here are the results of that one:

5% "Asexuality basically means celibate, right?"
51% "Kink is sexual for me, not necessarily others"
35% "The colloquial usage of 'sex act' is a misnomer"
11% "Intimacy implies romance"
24% "A fetish is always sexual"
66% "Kinks are different from fetishes"
5% "Other (Comment)"

"Asexuality basically means celibate, right?" is a viewpoint I get hit with a lot. It's one of the many misconceptions people have about #asexuality. I'm happy to see that it's not a high percentage, but it also means that there is room for helping to clarify it for people. I did try to answer some questions that came in some of the comments. You can read one of those responses here: https://lgbtqia.space/@h3mmy/114730600977662696

"Kink is sexual for me, but not necessarily others" was meant to help complement the statements in the first poll based on feedback. Not everyone projects their own version of defining kink onto others, and that is really nice. It's something that needs to happen mindfully so when someone is talking about #kink it's not immediately labeled as a #sex discussion. And I appreciate it when people put in the effort to account for the different perspectives on the matter. 49% of respondents either didn't feel like kink was sexual for them or didn't feel like it could be non-sexual for others. Given the numbers in the first poll, I am inclined to believe the former is predominant among the survey takers. I could be wrong, but I'll do so with some gusto.

"The colloquial usage of 'sex act' is a misnomer" was something meant to echo @erosdiscordia@onchya.monster for his comment here https://onycha.monster/@erosdiscordia/statuses/01JY7EZKMZ3Y86HBWNM4K9ZG4Y
I found it interesting to view things from this approach and am curious to hear more thoughts about it. It would certainly require some care, because there's already difficulties when widening the definition of the term "sex act". I still feel like it's worth exploring even if just to broaden my understanding of how people think about these concepts.

"Intimacy implies romance" is one I added because I was noticing some people using the terms interchangeably or to mean a similar thing. 11% of voters at least view them as being in the same neighborhood. I'm aromantic, and not really going to be very good at trying to provide a granular differential analysis of romancy things. I definitely view intimacy as it's own thing though and you can read more about my thinking in this post https://lgbtqia.space/@h3mmy/114721556022286295

"A fetish is always sexual" was meant to try and refine how people are defining a fetish. My understanding is that it really only applies to sexual contexts, even if typical sex acts aren't necessarily involved, it's still scratching the sexual pathway in the brain. However it seems this framing only agrees with 24% of voters and I'm very interested in hearing more opinions about this to get a better understanding.

"Kinks are different from fetishes" was added to check how people felt about this right after considering the sexual components to a fetish and whether this would be any different from the answers to the first poll in relation to kink and sexuality. 66% of people agree with this statement which is actually fewer than I expected. But as a wise person mentioned for the first poll, I might be phrasing things as bouba in a kiki world or vice-versa.

Again, I would like to thank everyone who voted in the poll and especially to people who left comments. They were all very helpful for giving me a better feel for people in my orbit and how they may be conceptualizing these things.

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Of the people who wear a wristwatch of some kind, from Tumblr and from Mastodon, which was 177 people, about 9% sometimes or always wear it on the inside of their wrist.

Results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xR8EkMzcDQVwXoR3XL-0f4wRsEz571i-pmzYwYfda9E/edit

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