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posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 10:52am on 05/05/2003
Looks like I'm a heretic...

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScore
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)High
Level 2 (Lustful)High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)Low
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)Very High
Level 7 (Violent)High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)High

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test

And...


Your Ultimate Purity Score Is...
CategoryYour Score Average
Self-Lovin'61.7%
Explored the pleasures of the flesh
58.5%
Shamelessness76.2%
Has yet to see self in mirror
75%
Sex Drive 73.7%
A fool for love, but not always
73.4%
Straightness8.9%
Knows the other body type like a map
38.5%
Gayness 100%
75.5%
Fucking Sick79.6%
Refreshingly normal
85.9%
You are 64.45% pure
Average Score: 67.1%
Mood:: Home and jetlagged
There are 10 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 
posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 03:50am on 05/05/2003
Those percentages only make sense when you remember that it's the purity in each of those categories which is being measured. Ah!

I managed to get into Purgatory, but only by second-guessing the test and lying as required :-)
 
posted by [identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com at 07:20am on 05/05/2003
I'm merely relieved to see another poly person (besides myself) with an "average" score on this one!
 
posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 01:45pm on 05/05/2003
I think you need to realise that most poly people will probably have purity test scores similar to us. Look at [livejournal.com profile] handslive for example, and I'm pretty sure that [livejournal.com profile] purpletigron and G would be very similar too.

You need to get over some of the inferiority complexes you have on this. Seriously - its bending you and your relationships all out of shape. And just because you might have a higher purity than a potential partner doesn't make it any less likely they'll find you attractive - I know this from direct experience (nobody you know though).

If someone's attracted to you they are attracted to you not your purity test score.
 
posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 02:17pm on 05/05/2003
Yeah, I'd expect my score to be only marginally less pure than [livejournal.com profile] purplecthulhu, and my OSO G to be around the same. Our favourite kinks are cuddles, and sitting together in foamy baths, chatting :-)

My guess is that at least comparable numbers of `vanilla' people who `find' polyamory through SF, as there are `0% pure' people who `find' polyamory through ... hedonism? You realise that, despite what you've been told isn't possible, that you personally do love more than one person at the same time. So, you have normal, ordinary, `boring' relationships, just n>2.
 
posted by [identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com at 02:30pm on 05/05/2003
True. Just like other relationships, except for multiples...

I guess that I'm a bit intimidated because any time something like this becomes a meme, my score seems to always be the "purest" overall, either in poly groups or among my friends. As far as prospective interests with significant-lower scores go, they scare me a little bit... I approach with caution.
 
I guess that I'm a bit intimidated

I'm usually in a similar position - not the absolutely purest, but definitely up there. But I don't find it intimidating - when I was a student, I suppose that I thought that it made me look naive? Now, I think: I'm happy with who I am, and what I do - and the things which give the test-writers a thrill aren't the things which ring my bell :-) If I wrote a purity test, you can bet that I'd be 0% pure, because I'd be setting the questions - but it would have to include things like "Have you ever cooked an Indian meal from `scratch', starting from whole spices?" :-)
 
"Have you ever cooked an Indian meal from `scratch', starting from whole spices?"

Now *that*'s intimidating! It used to take my Ph.D. advisor (who is Indian) over two days in preparation...
 
It depends on the dish - if you already have all the ingredients, it can sometimes be done in a day, or only half a day. And it is a whole lot of fun :-) Another one of G's kinks, too :-)

G's comment is that you can spend two days preparing a feast-type meal in any cuisine, especially if you haven't had much practice. Some people spend that long on their Thanksgiving turkeys, for example.

Another thought: Do you ever stop to think just how intimidating to other people are many of the things which you regularly do? No one can be an expert at everything, and kinky sex isn't that exceptional, especially if it isn't what rings your bell.
 
posted by [identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com at 02:24pm on 05/05/2003
bending you and your relationships all out of shape

Hmmm... based on past comments/entries, I guess, since this particular test hasn't generated that kind of discussion.

If someone's attracted to you they are attracted to you not your purity test score.

Not unless they're into debauching hapless geeks ;-). Seriously, though, past experiences in that part of life, as in other parts, can be a bridge or a wall between two given people.
 
posted by [identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com at 02:37pm on 05/05/2003
And just because you might have a higher purity than a potential partner doesn't make it any less likely they'll find you attractive

The converse isn't true, though... a greatly-lower purity in a potential partner is something of a disincentive.

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