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Reddit mentions of A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire

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Reddit mentions: 12

We found 12 Reddit mentions of A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire. Here are the top ones.

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Found 12 comments on A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire:

u/exegesisClique · 558 pointsr/WTF

Men have three major sexual cues. Tits, ass, and sperm competition. The penis is important due to it's role as a sperm delivery system and thus it is a major sexual cue and synonymous with sperm competition. Sperm competition is a sexual cue because of the word competition. Competition, in the sexual realm at the very least, gets us guys all riled up. "Who's that bitch been fuckin' while I was gone!" The site of a penis in the context of sex triggers desire in the brain. Not for the penis, but to increase desire for the female in order to guarantee it's our sperm that impregnates and not the other dude. Hardness of the erection, sperm production and various other biological triggers pop in such a circumstance. Cuckold porn is popular for this reason. Why would a man get hot wathcing another man fucking his wife? Because it triggers all that shit and makes the sex more enjoyable. Yeah biology!

If you'll notice there are no huge dicks in female targeted pornography. The obsession with penis is a male thing, not a female thing. Most females wouldn't give two shits about the penis. The shemale, or tranny, (both are offensive terms BTW) is a part of male fantasy. It targets all three major male sexual cues.

For further interesting reading regarding this subject consider: A Billion Wicked Thoughts

It's not a the greatest book in the world, but studying sex is very difficult in our culture and they've done the best they can with what we've got. =)

P.S. I am not an Amazon affiliate.

Edit: I meant cues and not for everyone to start lining up in queues. =P XD

Edit 2: I don't remember it being as prevelant in the book but as the video linked in logcats' post below mentions the feet are a fourth major sexual cue.

u/ceramicfiver · 38 pointsr/NoFap

I find it hilariously ironic that these comments are nothing but a circle jerk. You guys ever stop to think that it's porn, not masturbation, that's kept us/you isolated, depressed, impulsive, anxious, and/or sexually dysfunctional? I don't want to proselytize my opinions too much, but I would like to offer a train of thought dissenting from the common opinion.

Personally, I still masturbate but I do so only using my imagination and no external visual stimuli. Of course, I should clarify that throughout my whole life -- even during my porn addict stages -- I've only masturbated once or twice a week on average. So while my total porn hours per week may have been something like 30, I still would only masturbate about twice a week. True, my libido does fluctuate and, at times, I would masturbate as little as once in three months or as much as five times a day for three days, but my modal average is twice a week.

In my senior year of high school I went the whole year (August '06 through July '07) without masturbating and I found enormous benefits, but it ended up being unsustainable and I spiraled downward into porn addiction in my freshman year of college. Back then I thought my addiction was a masturbation addiction, but it took several years of failing college, seven therapists and psychiatrists, a sex therapist, Sex Addict Anonymous meetings, and telling my family and friends about my challenges to realize it was porn not masturbation that was extremely addictive for me. So, again, I'm not trying to push my philosophy on anybody but, by sharing my life story, maybe others can identify with me and find it worthwhile to learn from.

Edited after reading comments: I also find it immensely helpful to read as much as I can about human sexuality. Articles by Dr. Jesse Bering about fringe human behaviors, books on cultural variations in sexuality, animal variations in sexuality, the neuroscience of porn, and anything else I get my hands on are all vastly enlightening and entertaining. To borrow a phrase from Dr. Bering, I'm all about learning "why you’re going through what you are rather than what to do about it. I may not believe in free will, but I’m a firm believer that knowledge changes perspective, and perspective changes absolutely everything. Once you have that, you don’t need anyone else’s advice."

u/HugoBCN · 14 pointsr/europe

Dude, you're the only one talking about the patriarchy. You're arguing with imaginary beings (some would call them strawmen).

But, anyway, since you asked for sources:

Here's a source.

And here.

And here.

And another one.


And you might want to read this book.

Or just use Google.

Or how about some Pornhub demographics?

You might also want to check out the world and people around you some time. I mean if you weren't being facetious and honestly needed evidence to know that pictures of naked women are more sought after than pictures of naked men, I'm afraid you've spent too much time in Internetland.

u/ropers · 4 pointsr/lectures

Apparently a lot of people have raged against these researchers quite a bit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogi_Ogas#Book:_A_Billion_Wicked_Thoughts

Also see the Amazon tags on this page:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/tags-on-product/0525952098/

u/mbatterham · 4 pointsr/AskReddit

I just finished reading A Billion Wicked Thoughts. Men are turned on by the female form (breasts, hip ratio etc.). However, men are also turned on by penises, so shemales combine the best of both worlds!

u/guymanmrdude · 2 pointsr/seduction

I'm only halfway through this book, but it has a lot of great information so far:

http://www.amazon.com/Billion-Wicked-Thoughts-Largest-Experiment/dp/0525952098

Kind of answers 'why' a lot of PUA techniques work.

u/Shuttlecock · 2 pointsr/MensRights

and here's another couple books. one on pediatric gender reassignment

and another one

and lets just quote the relevant portion.

>In 2004, one urologist compiled a report on fourteen genetic males who underwent neonatal sex reassignment. Seven had switched back to living as males, six were still living as females, and one refused to declare a sexual identity. Only those living as men had dated and were able to live independently.

u/lamrar · 1 pointr/OpenChristian

Whether men are more visual than women is really irrelevant to my point, but here are some sources:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolution-the-self/201205/the-triggers-sexual-desire-men-vs-women

http://www.amazon.com/Billion-Wicked-Thoughts-Largest-Experiment/dp/0525952098/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336682469&sr=8-1

http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/sex-lies-men-myths-0217137

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/808430

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/040316072953.htm

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v7/n4/abs/nn1208.html

This last one seems to imply that this difference correlates with gender at birth, though the sample size is small: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22563262

And how can you say that it is "invariably due to some cultural conditioniong"? It is a known fact that there are differences between the male and female brain independently of culture. Is it really impossible that these differences extend to patterns of sexual stimulation? And what would it matter if they did?

u/akcampbell · 1 pointr/sex

Ah, from the authors of A Billion Wicked Thoughts. I never read the book, but remember that it was not highly thought of....the Amazon page has an amusing collection of user-tags such as "phds writen in crayon" and "mansplaining" and "disclaimed from boston university."

As for the article: while hearing about some folks' porn habits is interesting, this isn't science. This is someone drawing conclusions from what is essentially the browser history of those people who have both unfettered access to the internet and also the desire to use that access to view/read erotic media. That is neither a rigorous research method, nor in any way inclusive of all people; it's as flawed in its data-collection and inferences as much -- and in many of the same ways -- as the Kinsey study it criticizes.

u/Tuxis · 0 pointsr/TrollXChromosomes

http://www.zmescience.com/science/psychology-science/sexual-fantasies-report-64654/

More common doesn't mean there are no exceptions nor that there are noone with both fantasies..

But I clearly stepped on some thin ice back there and I have started reading this book to maybe fill some of the gap in my knowlege:
https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Wicked-Thoughts-Largest-Experiment/dp/0525952098