Yup. 100%. No that's not gonna be me, I promise, I'm not switching to the porn category or anything...this is just a quirky curiosity to see if there's more engagement (not necessarily followers - totally do not want the porn pic collector crowd! Nothing against them...we all have our things...but not what I want this account to be about :-P)

I think you said it well...its about giving people an excuse to engage without feeling to shallow. Think of advertising - models in red lipstick and push up bras seductively gorging on hamburgers...or actually, something more subtle - women in media often dye their hair blonde and ratings go up (ok...I don't know how 'often' - but I read something on that and I'll dig it up later lol).

I'm gonna go the both route for 30ish days (if I disappear in that time, baby is born and I'm busy with that stuff haha).

My theory is that engagement will go up - it will be a subconscious trigger (like the person who never commented on here but did when he saw this post). I could actually be totally wrong - because like you pointed out...there are females (at least alleged females) on here posting sexy pics on a daily basis, and my content will basically stay the same - aside from my profile pic...so who knows.

Social experiment. Maybe I'll do it with a dude's hairy chest next.
I've definitely fallen back into spending a lot of time on Steemit - (blame the holidays)...but like my music collection, I keep circling to the same blogs - though am trying to branch out because there are so many awesome content creators on here - finding them isn't always easy!