Fleshmap is a new project by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Vi̩gas that explores human desire from three points of view Рtouch, look, and listen.
Touch
The touch section delves into where people like to be touched and where people like to touch on the human body, male and female. Just a fare warning: there’s a little bit of naked, so it might be not suitable for work depending on what you consider NSFW. Data were collected via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk with the help of Dolores Labs. The above displays body parts ordered by where women like to be touched. Apparently the back of the neck is most popular.
Look
Look is a little bit more abstract. Well, sort of. It’s a look at nipple hair patterns. Yeah, you heard me. It’s 12 men, 12 nipples, 12 patterns. There’s also a section for women’s nipples.
Listen
Lastly, Martin and Fernanda explore what we sing about. Each column represents a genre and larger circles show body parts that are more often sung about in that genre. Most sing about eyes a lot. Can you guess which column is for hip-hop?
Everything is interactive, so go check it out for yourself. Screenshots don’t really do the projects justice.
[via Dolores]
Not thrilled by the aesthetics and the visualizations, they are not bad either but overall a bit shallow. But I found the data gathering methodology quite interesting, here is more info from dolores labs:
http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/08/fleshmap-crowdsourcing-sex/
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the nipple hair patterns actually made me laugh, how odd
Mortiz – yeah, the layout/aesthetics does feel a little rushed. not sure if there was deadline or maybe a too-early announcement on dolores.
I don’t think Touch section really tells you anything other than the obvious and there’s not a huge difference between wanting to be touched and want to touch.
Aesthetically though it’s great.. and no not in that way! :o)
yeah, i guess there are only subtle differences, but i think the idea was to find out if there was.
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What? No Ears? Ears at the BEST. Women MELT!