Geographical areas of no response

There seems to be a lot of contributors from

North America- Canada and the US

Northern Europe- UK, France, Holland, germany and the like

Australia

However there does not seem to be many contributors in other parts of the world.

Africa, Middle East, Latin America (south america) and the such.

Is this due to censorship of this type of material or other contributing factors.

thanks

EJ

Africa and middle east easy.... religion...., this kind of thing is massively frowned upon

That's a very interesting question that you have raised, EJ. Certainly censorship of the internet is a problem in some areas, but there are also cultural pressures against talking about or even imagining the idea of medfet, and since this site is overwhelmingly in English (apart from a small French section), the language barrier is clearly another factor.

Well i am from africa. south africa. the language barrier is not that big problem as english is the second most used language. (one of eleven official languages). there is also not that big religious "problems". i think the problem is that sa only have about 6-7milion whites and not everybody has access to the internet.

I would not think English would be the problem, a lot of people in the world speak English as a second language. I agree that a lot of contries do not have the same access to the internet like Europe and North America do. I think a lot of the problem is some contries are very restrictive to the content that they let their people view on the internet. Some societies only the men have access to the internet or are allowed to have medfet interests. Some societies are so tightly controlled, that anything like a medfet interest would a tabboo, and open to persecution.

I would not think English would be the problem, a lot of people in the world speak English as a second language. I agree that a lot of contries do not have the same access to the internet like Europe and North America do. I think a lot of the problem is some contries are very restrictive to the content that they let their people view on the internet. Some societies only the men have access to the internet or are allowed to have medfet interests. Some societies are so tightly controlled, that anything like a medfet interest would a tabboo, and open to persecution.

lol That reminds me of this article I read on the BBC News site about a Sharia court in Malaysia ruling that a man could divorce his wife via text message by texting three times "I divorce you". I dunno if I was more surprised at the silliness of the law or the implication that they let women have phones.

But governments or religions can't control the interests and thoughts of their citizens. They can control the outlets available for satisfying the desires, but not the desires themselves. Of course, they rarely seem to realize this and end up looking naive and foolish... like when the president of Iran stated that there were no homosexuals in Iran. lol Maybe there isn't a vocal population because the extremists would kill them, but it would be naive on his part to believe that it wasn't happening behind closed doors.

Anyway, more to the point of the thread, I'd assume the numbers here are about right for posters coming from around the globe. America is HUGE compared to European countries, so it just makes sense that the US and Canada dominate this and most other websites.

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But governments or religions can't control the interests and thoughts of their citizens.

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but if religion dictates that this sort of thing is wrong then anyone with in that religion who is devoted won't have any interest or thoughts in/of this sort of thing.

Another point to consider is that privacy is hard to come by in some countries and societies - and that of course includes privacy at the computer. I am sure that most of us come here only when we are reasonably certain that there will be no one looking over our shoulder.

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but if religion dictates that this sort of thing is wrong then anyone with in that religion who is devoted won't have any interest or thoughts in/of this sort of thing.

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That is true--in theory. Religion attempts to control human nature, which is quite uncontrollable. Religion can dictate all it wants, it's just impossible to control thoughts and interests.

Think about your fetish. I'm sure you didn't just decide one day that you were going to try thinking about playing doctor and see if it turned you on. lol Those things are the result of your brain's interpretation of events or experiences... and no matter what you do, you can't change how it shapes you as a person.

Remember, there are plenty of Christians in America that consider themselves devout Christians who are gay, divorced, had sex out of wedlock, married non-believers, etc--all things the Bible considers wrong. Just like there are plenty of Muslims who gamble, drink and whatnot, and still consider themselves good Muslims.

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There seems to be a lot of contributors from North America- Canada and the US Northern Europe- UK, France, Holland, germany and the like Australia However there does not seem to be many contributors in other parts of the world. Africa, Middle East, Latin America (south america) and the such. Is this due to censorship of this type of material or other contributing factors. thanks EJ

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Central European countries, like the Czech Republic for instance is a source of many finely made gyn exam videos and related things. And if you look around and do some searching you will also come across Polish and Hungarian med fet sites of all kinds. Often these are enema related as well. There are Russian sites as well. And let's not forget all the wonderful Japanese medfet material that is made.

Belgium also, to my surprise in a way, seems to have many med fetishts (who i find on other sites such as www.dokterm.be).

I think it is often a question of luck and circumstance in finding this particular website and then posting. I just found it here a few months ago and only then because of a referral by a member. And yet I've been active on many other medfet sites since the 1990's.

Language will be a low consideration in my opinion. So many people have a working knowledge of English. And besides, zity.biz has a French and German section anyway.

All of the above said and done though, I still think medfet is mainly an activity that appeals to Europeans and Americans in so far as they are of European origin. With an aside from Japan as well.

Maybe because in other regions of the world medical treatments are still an absolute necessity in short supply, which means they cannot be perceived as being something fun to engage in. They are on the other hand absolutely necessary to preserve one's health and very serious business indeed therefore.

I would conclude (tentatively then) that the main indicator be a degree of how affluent a society is, that determines a level of interest in medfet. Along with perhaps a degree of religious influence ...

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There seems to be a lot of contributors from North America- Canada and the US Northern Europe- UK, France, Holland, germany and the like Australia However there does not seem to be many contributors in other parts of the world. Africa, Middle East, Latin America (south america) and the such. Is this due to censorship of this type of material or other contributing factors. thanks EJ

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Slightly off topic because I haven't looked at the countries mentioned in the latter part of that quote - but here is a copy/paste of a reply I made to someone asking about population - v - medfetishists on this site. I've edited the reply I made so it makes more sense here.

I found the simple population ratios between the US, UK and Europe quite surprising - maybe others will too.

I think its simply demographics Nichty.

The USA has a population of 307M, Europe (all countries) 852M and the UK 61M. Compared to Europe the USA has a population ratio of near 1:3 and the USA compared to the UK near to 6:1 - virtual total opposites.

That makes Europe the 'left out' geographic area of the three. Considering that Zity hosts 2 major European languages, French and German, I find that surprising. I'd always thought that both France and Germany were into medfet related things more than other countries but the ratio of 1 : 3 says otherwise. We ought to suppose from that that Europe should be better represented here than it is. So yes, the USA does have some dominance over Europe in that respect but is probably on something of an equal footing with the UK

As for the proportion of population - v - medfetishists here I don't think there's a way of knowing if the proportion of Zity.Biz members of different nationalities compares with population but I would suggest that the UK isn't 'behind the door' in that respect. OK, there are sparsely populated areas of the UK that aren't well represented, East Anglia, the South West, Wales and of course your country of Scotland. Certainly l find myself travelling afar to meet, more than locally. Indeed I even travel and examine abroad - admittedly I'm on holiday too!

We could I suppose take a tally of Personal Ads on Zity. But how representative of the total membership is that, either numerically or of the inclination to post a Personal Ad?

I guess its something we'll never know Nichty - we just have to work at it - and I'm pleased to have met, and still meet, some really wonderful people.

Returning perhaps to the Topic. Africa is probably 75 :25, illiterate to literate, probably moreso in respect of computer literacy and internet availabilty. People in the Middle East will likely be repressed in terms of expressing their medfet interests for fear of Islamic law. South Americans are in the main financially poor and devoutly Catholic too. So, there are many reasons for scant membership in those areas of the globe.

But lets make one thing clear, wherever you go in the world you're likely to find the same proportion of people interested in medical fetishes, overtly or covertly in total. It's just that in different countries circumstances dictate whether they are visible or not.

Just like to improve the African stats - saying hello from South Africa 😉

Yay, one from Scotland here, keeping our end up so to speak.

I know Big K describes Scotland as sparsely populated and in terms of population density over land mass that is true, but actually the bulk of the population lives in the Central Scottish region ( Glasgow-Edinburgh) but even here I find difficulty finding people with medfet interests. I know only one guy who I occasionally met up with up here. On the other hand when down in Manchester there seemed to be a lot more guys interested. Totally puzzled at this

On a further point I'm deeply interested in enemas and I look at all posting on here concerning them, the bulk from the US. Now I had never heard of anyone getting a regular enema to clean them out , but it seems to have been quite widespread in US. So are enemas something more prevalent in Us than UK or have I got it completely wrong?

In certain beliefs, women are not regarded as equal, and can never be considered a friend. Far from it, women are considered unclean. So the men have only one choice for friendship, for intimacy, and honor. (women are not regarded as being capable of honor, only men). Only with another man can they be completely free with themselves in social and physical intercourse. Hence the relatively large number of proctologists in Iran, Saudi Arabia etc. Thus there are no homosexuals in Iran, they are just being normal, honorable friends. Read this first in the Seven Pillars of Wisdom. T.E.L 1926, then from observations of friend who have lived in the area. At a guess, since in these countries, men are not supposed to SEE a woman until the matrimonial bed, it is probably around 100%.