A billion wicked thoughts
Subtitle: What the world's largest experiment reveals about human desire
Publisher: Dutton
Published: May 2011
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780525952091
Description: Two maverick neuroscientists use the world's largest psychology experiment--the Internet--to study the private activities of millions of men and women around the world, unveiling a revolutionary and shocking new vision of human desire that overturns conventional thinking. For his groundbreaking sexual research, Alfred Kinsey and his team interviewed 18,000 people, relying on them to honestly report their most intimate experiences. Using the Internet, the neuroscientists Ogas and Gaddam quietly observed the raw sexual behaviors of half a billion people. By combining their observations with neuroscience and animal research, these two young neuroscientists finally answer the long-disputed question: what do people really like? Ogas and Gaddam's findings are transforming the way scientists and therapists think about sexual desire. Their fascinating and occasionally disturbing findings will rock our modern understanding of sexuality, just as Kinsey's reports did sixty years ago.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: label: Foreword
title: by Catherine Salmon
pagenum: ix; label: Preface
title: The World's Largest Behavioral Experiment
pagenum: xiii; label: Chapter 1
title: What Do We _Really_ Like? Sexual Cues
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2
title: Monkey Pay-Per-View: Male Visual Cues
pagenum: 23; label: Chapter 3
title: Elmer Fudd, Wabbit Hunter: Male Desire
pagenum: 45; label: Chapter 4
title: The Miss Marple Detective Agency: Female Desire
pagenum: 62; label: Chapter 5
title: Ladies Prefer Alphas: Female Psychological Cues I: The Hero
pagenum: 85; label: Chapter 6
title: The Sister of the Magic Hoo Hoo: Female Psychological Cues II: The Heroine
pagenum: 108; label: Chapter 7
title: Boys Will Be Boys: Gay Cues
pagenum: 128; label: Chapter 8
title: A Tall Man with a Nice Tush: Female Visual Cues
pagenum: 152; label: Chapter 9
title: Chasing Wives and Girls Gone Wild: Male Psychological Cues
pagenum: 174; label: Chapter 10
title: Lords and Lordosis: Human Psychological Cues
pagenum: 195; label: Chapter 11
title: Erotical Illusions: The Creative Power of Cues
pagenum: 213; label: Conclusion
title: Happy Ending or Happily-Ever-After?
pagenum: 239; label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 243; label: Notes
pagenum: 247; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 304; label: Index
pagenum: 384