I'd like to include this in the survey; I apologize for not knowing a ton about ace stuff; which questions should I change?

I'd really love to give it a back button, but I am not skilled enough yet to figure out how to do that without fucking up results.

My ideal survey would be one that asked each question on its own scale. I chose to put some things on opposition-scales in an attempt to shrink the size of the survey; I had to make a *lot* of sacrifices here, the goal was breadth over depth.

ah i'm realizing i failed to put 'at birth' in my description; I thought i had but it must have slipped somehow. My bad, I've updated it.

I also included grocery shopping in the description for the question about males

Yeah the pounds come in increments of 20lbs

I did try doing more than one question per page originally, but I have a friend who studies survey speed (like, has a bunch of people take surveys that are constructed differently), and he reported that one question per page is ideal and reduces total navigation moves users have to do.
A progress bar also would have been good, but it was a little tricky to do because so many of the questions are nested - I think I have around 1,000 total options to choose, but it's unreasonable to expect enough people to answer 1000 questions, so most are condensed and nested, conditional on previous answers. This means that for anyone taking the survey, the progress bar would be inaccurate, because I don't know in advance how many questions you'll end up answering! This is why I chose to include "sections" instead - "Now starting section 3/4" for example.

I really want to get my surveys designed in a way that everyone feels like questions apply cleanly to them - my interest is good data, not like... trying to make a point or anything. But I get a lot of contradicting feedback from people about how I should phrase things, and I feel a little overwhelmed and frustrated about it. I don't know which people I should listen to here. This isn't personal to you, just... like the dictionary definition of 'trans' is people whose gender doesn't correspond to their birth sex and this is what some trans people have told me.

I did include grocery shopping as an option for males too!And yeah I am not trying to be not-inclusive here; I've had different people yell at me no matter what choice I end up making. I am supportive of trans people and navigating exactly the right terminology in surveys that doesn't upset anybody is really hard, and I'm just hoping that people mostly get my meaning. I'm really not trying to make any point!

(I also did already change a bunch of wording in my survey based on feedback from trans and enby people)

    \*question: "I find scenarios in which a person is faced with a terrible and inevitable future, to be:"

        \*tip: For example, realizing they are permanently trapped, or about to get sold off into slavery, etc.  

I've heard the term for this to be 'Bad Ends.'

And I'm glad you liked the detail; I put a *lot* of time into researching the small nuances of every fetish out there. I still didn't do it full justice though!

A lot of my survey decisions aren't like, trying to make any political point, they just come from trying to be more concise. My guess is that when it comes to *public* perception of tabooness of fetishes, this is heavily influenced by birth sex (as in; if you're afab enby who likes pegging, other people will rate this as less taboo than if you're amab enby who likes pegging). This has nothing to do with what you actually are, the scoring is based on *how others perceive you*.

But I'd agree I'd like to actually investigate that further at some point, I've just been doing a lot of work and the additional scoring part of the surveys was low priority for me.

thanks; fwiw I ran it through several pilot groups and incorporated a ton of feedback before publishing, but the survey is really, really massive on the back end and it was inevitable some bits were going to slip through. I'm still writing all these critiques down to incorporate into further surveys though!