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Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships [Paperback / softback]

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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 416 pages, height x width x depth: 201x135x23 mm, weight: 301 g
  • Pub. Date: 29-May-2012
  • Publisher: New American Library
  • ISBN-10: 0452297877
  • ISBN-13: 9780452297876
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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 416 pages, height x width x depth: 201x135x23 mm, weight: 301 g
  • Pub. Date: 29-May-2012
  • Publisher: New American Library
  • ISBN-10: 0452297877
  • ISBN-13: 9780452297876
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Draws on an extensive internet experiment in human behavior to offer revisionist perspectives on human sexuality, covering such topics as sexual cues and preferences, the changing nature of women's sexual interests and the creative potential of the sexual brain. 30,000 first printing.

Draws on extensive Internet usage data to offer revisionist perspectives on human sexuality, covering such topics as sexual cues and preferences, the shifting nature of women's sexual interests, and the creativity of the sexual brain.

The Book on Sex

Want to know what really turns your partner on? A Billion Wicked Thoughts offers the clearest picture ever of the differences between male and female sexuality and the teeming diversity of human desire. What makes men attracted to images and so predictable in their appetites? What makes the set up to a romantic evening so important for a woman? Why are women's desires so hard to predict? Neuroscientists Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam reveal the mechanics of sexual relationships based on their extensive research into the mountains of new data on human behavior available in online entertainment and traffic around the world. Not since Alfred Kinsey in the 1950s has there been such a revolution in our knowledge of what is really going on in the bedroom. What Ogas and Gaddam learned, and now share, will deepen and enrich the way you, and your partner, think and talk about sex.

Reviews

Alfred Kinsey only scratched the surface. Interviewing a mere 18,000 horny humans? Please . . . Drs. Ogas and Gaddam [ offer] hot new scientific findings.The Washington Post

Smart, readable and handles even the most bizarre fetishes with both humor and respect. Salon

A goldmine. Steven Pinker, bestselling author of The Better Angels of Our Nature



An amazing book.Daniel J. Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on Music



Fascinating and terrific. Roy Baumeister, coauthor of Willpower

Foreword xi
Catherine Salmon
Preface
The World's Largest Behavioral Experiment Why freshmen are easy, but the Internet is better xv
Chapter 1 What Do We Really Like? Sexual Cues
How the Internet yanks open the curtains to reveal our most secret desires
1(22)
Chapter 2 Monkey Pay-Per-View: Male Visual Cues
Why plump is sexy, mature ladies hold special advantages, and Freud suffered from penis envy
23(22)
Chapter 3 Elmer Fudd, Wabbit Hunter: Male Desire
Why men can get turned on by a jar of pennies and the male sexual brain is a clumsy hunter
45(17)
Chapter 4 The Miss Marple Detective Agency: Female Desire
Why there is no such thing as female Viagra and women have the most sophisticated brain on Earth
62(23)
Chapter 5 Ladies Prefer Alphas: Female Psychological Cues I: The Hero
Why women like barons, billionaires, and serial killers
85(23)
Chapter 6 The Sisterhood of the Magic Hoo Hoo: Female Psychological Cues II: The Heroine
Why the best men are always taken and every girl just wants to be loved
108(20)
Chapter 7 Boys Will Be Boys: Gay Cues
Why gay men like straight guys and gay porn is (almost) indistinguishable from straight porn
128(24)
Chapter 8 A Tall Man with a Nice Tush: Female Visual Cues
Why Playgirl magazine flopped, a firm tush is a nice advantage, and so many people don't like porn
152(22)
Chapter 9 Cheating Wives and Girls Gone Wild: Male Psychological Cues
Why the forbidden is so exciting and the unexpected reason men like group sex
174(21)
Chapter 10 Lords and Lordosis: Human Psychological Cues
Why domination and submission are two sides of the same cortex
195(18)
Chapter 11 Erotical Illusions: The Creative Power of Cues
What the Mona Lisa smile, Oreo cheesecake, and paranormal romance have in common
213(26)
Conclusion Happy Ending or Happily-Ever-After?
So what do I do with all this information?
239(4)
Acknowledgments 243(4)
Notes 247(57)
Bibliography 304(80)
Index 384
Ogi Ogas studies computational models of memory, learning, and vision. He was a Department of Homeland Security Fellow.

Sai Gaddam studies large-scale data analysis and serves as a data mining consultant in India. They both received their Ph.D.s in computational neuroscience from Boston University.