Rating my gender, tracking my cycles.

[AprilC]

First, great name on the OP!

Ann Bonny was pretty BA irl. Looting and pillaging on the high seas, it was a good choice!

Second, this cycle hypothesis fits with my experience too, so I wanted to add in my $0.02.

I've noticed a couple tings about myself in tracking my own level of interest or desire over the years. Using the 5 point system you describe...

Seems like in the summer time, with the sunnier, longer, hotter days really drives me down towards the bottom of the scale. I spent May to August this year hovering between a 1 and a 2, occasionally 'jumping the shark' and taking things to 4, but never for long. A day tops, usually just several hours, and then it was back to being a 1 or a 2 for an extended period of time. But with Autumn in the air lately, it's been more like 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 this week. Happens every year around this time for some reason.

Might be stuck at a four for a week or two, and then be on my typical fall/winter schedule. I won't see 1 again until the Spring. In the colder months, I tend to hover perpetually between a 2 and a 3, jumping up to 4 for a week here, a week there, and dropping back to a 2-3 for a week or two in between. IDK if it has to do with the amount of available sunlight, or the fact that I tend to be much more active in the fair weather months, and sort of a couch potato in the crummy weather months, or maybe it's just in my head. It's a pattern I noticed in myself over the last couple of years, and it's holding true again this time around.

When the surf is up though, I usually ride the wave into shore, and then paddle back out to catch the next one. The good waves just happen in winter for me.

Edit: After further reflection, I think 4 is where I top out at present. Changed some 5's to 4's.

[Anne Bonny]

There does seem to be a cycle especially for us gender fluid types. My best waves happen in the morning but for me the surf is up...or ...suppose down in the early afternoon typically. I may go long periods without dressing have not been tracking of late.

Alexa...it is difficult to pin ourselves down. It seems our patterns vary so again we are all different and the etiology is probably multi factorial. I suppose we can know ourselves.. were the sample size quite large it might work out there we may fall into groups which are similar and that could be plotted. Wow! way out of my desire but there may be someone out there conducting research on us...who knows...

[AprilC]

"My best waves happen in the morning"

Samzies. Morning is the most intense period of desire when it's on. I may not dress because of scheduling conflicts in the day, but when I wake up with the desire burning brightly, I know that night is an April night.