If you’ve read enough of those books, you probably don’t need this one.
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It’s a readable introduction, but it’s also part of a torrent of pop sex books over the last decade, which you can find through Amazon’s “if you bought this, you’ll also like this.” feature.
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Ogas and Gaddam structure the book as a series of chapters that use Internet porn search classifications as headers, note some of those searches, and explain what those searches might mean using research that draws from evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, sexology, and similar fields. Still, the project is interesting, and, in the absence of other data, it makes some sense to use what’s available. Internet searches are where the light is right now. The policeman asks why he is searching here, and the drunk replies, “this is where the light is. After a few minutes the policeman asks if he is sure he lost them here, and the drunk replies, no, that he lost them in the park. He says he lost his keys and they both look under the streetlight together. The male desire for older women is also reflected in the popularity of ‘mom’ searches on PornHub (since teen content is highly visible and easily accessible on PornHub, users may be more likely to manually type in searches for content they don’t immediately seen.īut how do we know about the proportions of searchers to non-searchers? This may be an example of the old joke about the “ Streetlight Effect:Ī policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost. The authors are aware of this and say, for example: What can see about all those searchers who aren’t looking for porn? What can we say about sample bias? Using Internet search queries reduces some forms of bias while presumably introducing others-like what we know about people who don’t use the Internet. These illustrate important points, I’m sure, and I’m not including them in this post purely to ensnare unwary search engine users. We also get lots of specific sample search queries, like “family nude beach” (167), “anal sex benefits” (168), and “nude construction workers” (168). So Ogas and Gaddam decided to study search queries, sort them (apparently using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk), classify them, and analyze them. In contrast, the Internet feels anonymous enough to let your search engine rip. If they do share, what they share and how they shade information can render that information nearly useless. But the ubiquity of online porn, combined with its breadth, makes it a trove of information about behavior that, as Ogas and Gaddam point out, most people are reluctant to share. In A Billion Wicked Thoughts, the forward by Catherine Salmon notes, “There is a lot of truth to the belief that if you can imagine it, you can find it as Internet porn.” If you can imagine it and can’t find it, you probably have a good business model.
Anyone really interested in issues around sexuality and evolution is better served by The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality, which is insanely detailed and concomitantly worth reading.
The book is like Why Women Have Sex: both are written by pairs of popularizing intellectuals who probably want to earn more money and affect the social conversation more than they could through writing purely academic work. A Billion Wicked Thoughts is good but not great it covers a lot of much-discussed studies from an angle that, although novel, isn’t quite novel enough.
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