Data taken from the acquaintaincies server "missing heart" (www.mheart.ru) corresponds to 14 FEB 2001 (statistics is publicly available) There are 12251 female and 10841 male entries registered on the server at that moment.

The most amazing thing is not that female entries are browsed significantly more often, but that dispersion of male entries popularity is far more. In other words, "the best lad on the server" is almost as popular as "the first lady" whereas "the twentieth best lad" is TEN times less popular, meanwhile "the twintieth best lady" is only twice less popular than "the first"... I am forced to admit certain resemblance to the case with sea lions, of which 4% males impregnate 88% females...

Input data for charts 2-4 was obtained by courtesy of the www.rlrl.net server administration, having been collected from 1 to 15 JAN 2001. At that moment there were 1134 female and 1536 male entries present on the server.

Notoriously there is almost 1.5 as many male entries as female, therefore the relative browse intensity is even more apparent.

At this point it is important to say that this data relates to the Internet users only, of which group the structure is rather different from that of the rest of the Russian population. For example, there are twice as many males as females; the majority of them are undergraduates, people with higher or technical education; many people are quite well-off. Nevertheless, we can easily neglect the fact of quantitive prevalation of males in the Internet, because being an Internet user does not confine his access to the females outside of this category.

Diagram 3 (below) reflects the correlation between attention paid to the female entries and her having children. Amount of attention paid to mothers younger than 26-28 seems to be unnaturally small, because most of the entries are concerned about childless women. Therefore the diagram contains a corrected in accordance to the correlation between mothers' entries and childless females value representing the number of browses. As we can see young women with children are about twice or thrice less interesting for the site customers. However, they are more interesting than childless women who are a bit older, in the end of the day. Starting with thirties the presence of children does not affect woman's popularity at all. This accords well with the sociologists' opinion that a woman with one child has almost the same chances to marry again as childless do. Apart from that this data is interesting by itself, it allows us to estimate the intentions of the site customers. It is known that women themselves browse the entries of other women on such sites with great deal of curiousity; sometimes with even greater attention than those of males.

I could see the reason for doing so in that they subconsciously compare themselves with "competitors", because the main area of competition between women is their physical attractiveness. A woman possibly puts herself onto a scale of attractiveness when watching other woman faces. It is not that important for males to have an attractive face, therefore geterosexual males are not interested in countenances of other males, as a rule. But if you would put, beside or instead of a face, the image of an erected penis with a ruler in background, you would definitely guarantee the male curiosity to such male entries... :-)

The diagram below reflects the data I have collected from 1995 to 1997 by analysing marriage adverts from the "Iz ruk v ruki" newspaper.

Treatise of Love, How It Is Recognised by an Awful Bore.