Wednesday, August 31, 2011

A Billion Wicked Thoughts

A Billion Wicked Thoughts is a book based on the world's largest social experiment ever conducted - the internet and the searches that people make have provided the authors, Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, with a wealth of information for studying human sexual desire. Now, any well read student of sociology or psychology will find familiar territory in their writing, but gems are found throughout the book. The idea that men desire women (mostly) but women desire being desired by men comes as a bit of a surprise. It tells us fellows why it's been so hard to pick up women by merely presenting a witty line or a flash of muscle. Women are not impressed, like men are, by simple visual cues. We men now have some ammunition for more successful date making! Let the woman know that she is desired and you're well on your way to successfully impressing her. Much of the writing is devoted to understanding the differences in male and female desires and how those differences explain the divergence in the things that we all search for in the world of internet titillation. Men, obviously, look for images. Women search for something more intellectually stimulating - erotic literature. The authors also do a fine job of explaining how gay men are still men. Their sexual preferences may be for men, but everything else about the way they think is identical to how all men think - simply and largely visually. The differences between what men write and what women write is barely distinguishable, until the writing of pornography is considered. Again, women focus on relationships and romance, men, on the physical attributes and the actions that accompany them. Brutes. Read the book. You will be pleasantly surprised by how the internet has enabled the authors to reveal stark differences in male and female sexual desire.