myth's Belated DMSI 3.1 Journal

[myth]

I'm arranging these initial catch-up posts by topic and keeping a consistent format, since they'd probably be unreadable otherwise. Not that that formatting will necessarily help. I'll try to keep them bite-sized too.

Prologue: Externals, part 1.

Opportunity for sexual encounters (up to and/or including sex)

1. Preexisting DMSI? Yes. Both opportunities and acting on them.
   
2. While listening to DMSI? Yes. Both opportunities and acting on them.
   
3. Difference in frequency so far? Increased to levels not seen in years, although not yet above anything previously seen. (Note: 96.4% of my time is NOT spent around other people. My social time is very... condensed.)
   
4. Difference in quality so far? Increased sexual attention from women who impress others (physically) more than than they impress me (whole person). Preferred attention, while present, is mostly unchanged.
   
5. Before/during preference so far? Unsure. I prefer those who rate highly on my personal value system, not those who impress others on purely shallow levels.
   

Opportunity for sex (the act)

1. Preexisting DMSI? Yes. Both opportunities and acting on them.
   
2. While listening to DMSI? Yes. Both opportunities and acting on them.
   
3. Difference in frequency so far? Short-term uptick, but those aren't new.
   
4. Difference in quality so far? New options have been mostly unusual ones.
   
5. Before/during preference so far? Unsure, as it's not only about their interest in me. Most new responders may impress others (mostly female others?), but very few new responders have actually impressed me. Of course, these results aren't statistically unexpected -- of all women presently on the planet, the group of women that I find attractive is much smaller than the group that I find unattractive, so their respective sub-groups (containing those who find me attractive) are likely to be similarly lopsided. As are any later increases in those sub-groups. Illustration follows (in case the last two sentences confused you).
   
   Illustration: Let's say that I find 5% of all women on the planet attractive enough for sex, which actually sounds pretty high to me. That's 1 in 20. Assuming that 2 random women among those 20 (10%) are attracted to me, there's a much greater chance of those 2 falling into the group of 19 unattractive than either of them falling into the group of 1 attractive. Now, let's raise that number from 2 attracted (10%) to 10 attracted (50%) by way of DMSI, magic spell, love potion, or whatever else and try again. Even if the 1 that I like reciprocates, the other 9 in the 19 may as well be 0 of 19, and I can't exceed 1 because the other 19 don't do it for me. Yeah, you can stack the deck, 5% of 4 billion is still 200 million, etc, but I'm just illustrating the earlier point, not claiming helplessness in navigating it.