The recently popular “Sexual Inhibition Index Calculator” open-source test has had over 66,000 people get their results. However, there are issues with the website’s translation, because the SIS/SES scale used in this questionnaire means Sexual Inhibition Scales, Sexual Excitation Scales.
This is completely different from the sexual repression commonly mentioned in the Chinese community. Sexual repression is unexpressed desire, while sexual inhibition is roughly equivalent to hypoactive sexual desire, whether conscious or unconscious. Therefore, people who feel more sexually repressed may score low (less inhibition), while subjects with hypoactive sexual desire may score very high (more inhibition), which is confusing.
The author actually mentions the principle of the test on the website: “Sexual inhibition refers to an individual’s systematic suppression of sexual impulses, desires, and behaviors, usually stemming from a combination of psychological, sociocultural, and moral factors. Modern psychological research shows that moderate sexual inhibition is normal, but excessive suppression may affect mental health.” It can also be seen that the sexual inhibition on the website has a different meaning from the sexual repression in the online community.
Although the words are misused, testers should be able to find the problem by carefully reading the website content, so the author probably didn’t deliberately蹭热度. It’s just that the website has not been indexed by domestic search engines such as Baidu, which has led to people selling links and earning more than 4,000 元… Is this the power of the GFW…
Conflict of interest: gledos found that his sexual inhibition index reached 81 after the test, which is a very high level. He felt that something might be wrong, so he studied the specific meaning of the scale behind the test.
Links: Gu Li’s “Sexual Inhibition Index Calculator” instance | lamos22’s open-source repository.