Sexual Index

Harper's Magazine is one of my favourite magazines. It's often very insightful, very interesting, very funny, and very very. One of the regular things I look forward to in each issue is the Harper's Index: a collection of facts and figures that often astonish and enrage me and occasionally amuse me.

This month I was treated to some sexual facts, and I hope Harper's won't mind if I re-create them here. I really do encourage everyone to check out the magazine - it's one of the best.

• Percentage of US women who own vibrators: 46
• Number of erotic Harry Potter fan-fiction stories posted on a website run by an Illinois woman: 1, 750
• Average number of hits the site receives each day: 198,000

And for those of you as curious as I was, here's another story about Harry Potter erotica (and what Warner Bros. is trying to do about it) from http://sfgate.com.