A Billion Wicked Thoughts Quotes

“The characters populating male fantasies have little in common with those inhabiting female fantasies. In porn, the mind of a woman is usually empty of all thought and feeling – except for an overwhelming urge to have sex with plumbers, pizza boys, and her BFF. Women’s hopes and fears are irrelevant. Their skills are inconsequential, except for the admirable ability to satisfy multiple lovers simultaneously and an impressive capacity for moaning. Their bodies, on the other hand, are depicted in lavish, graphic detail.

The heroes of romance novels often seem like members of a more evolved species. They are natural leaders, rich, powerful, and well-connected. Their minds are intelligent and savvy, though they are reticent about their abilities and hide their inner demons. Despite the fact that they are a five-star general or lord of southern England, they hide a troubled and tempestuous soul that can only be healed by the magical balm of a woman’s love.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire

“The process of the hero getting in touch with his tender side is one of the greatest pleasures of the romance. Scenes where an alpha male expresses his feelings are always described in rich detail. In the same way that women often find the breathless gasping and moaning of female porn stars to be absurdly inauthentic, male readers of romances might find the emotional confessions of romance heroes to be strangely unfamiliar.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire

“A woman's sexual desire must be filtered through a careful appraisal of potential risks. During human prehistory, women who blindly gave in to every sexual urge likely faced a host of daunting challenges, including - in the extreme cases - death. Most important, from an evolutionary point of view, her children would have a harder time surviving than the children of a woman who limited the expression of her sexual urges to a strong and decent man willing to invest in a stable, long-term, child-rearing relationship. All modern women are the fruit of feminine caution. The result of this whittling away of the impulsive branches of our ancestral maternal tree is a female brain equipped with the most sophisticated neural software on Earth. A system designed to uncover, scrutinize, and evaluate a dazzling range of informative clues.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire

“Here are the ten most common professions of the hero, derived from the titles of more than 15,000 Harlequin romance novels: Doctor Cowboy Boss Prince Rancher Knight Surgeon King Bodyguard Sheriff”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“Though social psychologist Elaine Hatfield is one of the nicest people you could ever meet, her life has been filled with controversy, mostly because of her independent streak. When she was a young professor at the University of Minnesota in 1963, there were two rules. Women were not allowed to hang their coats in the faculty cloak room. Women were not allowed to dine at the Faculty Club. One Monday evening, Hatfield decided to challenge the rules. She and fellow psychologist Ellen Berscheid approached the table where their male colleagues were sitting. When we walked into the Faculty Club and chorused: “May we sit down?” our six colleagues couldn’t have been more courtly. “Of course! Do sit down.” But, Colleague #1 glanced at his watch and declared, “Oh, do excuse me I have to run.” Colleague #2 shifted uneasily, then remembered that his wife was picking him up. Colleague #3 snatched up a dinner roll and said that he better walk out with his friend. The remaining men realized that they’d better be going, too. Within minutes Ellen and I were sitting alone at the elegant table, surrounded by six heaping plates. Shamed but undeterred, they kept returning to the Faculty Club until they finally obtained their own table. Eventually, Hatfield became a full professor at the University of Wisconsin, where she pioneered research into the psychology of falling in love. The”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“The best method for acquiring scientific data is direct observation. Nothing beats watching a subject in action. But scientist have an easier time gazing at intergalactic quasars than peeking into someone's bedroom. Quasars don't close the curtains out of modesty of suspicion. In contrast, most of us are unwilling to let curious scientists photograph us as we tumble between the sheets. Radio waves may be invisible, but they don't try do deceive curious physicists and they are incapable of self-deception. Humans are guilty of both.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire

“For every search for a “skinny” girl, there are almost three searches for a “fat” girl.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“For a man, a single cue is often sufficient, and sometimes necessary. For women, no single cue is either necessary or sufficient.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“Unlike men, who become aroused after being exposed to a single cue, women need to experience enough simultaneous cues to cross an evervarying threshold.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“Authenticity is important to both men and women, but in different ways.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“The male cue for female sexual pleasure is entirely analogous to the female cue for a man’s emotional commitment.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“pleasure for their partner. The male cue for female sexual pleasure is entirely analogous to the female cue for a man’s emotional commitment.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“The women are moaning and swooning for the men. Female sexual pleasure is one of the most potent psychological cues for male arousal. Indeed, this may be the most common cue across all varieties of online porn. “Seeing and hearing a woman who is truly turned on like crazy has to be the biggest aphrodisiac I can think of for me,” lauds one man on reddit. “If this happens in porn, and it rarely does, I find it to be fucking amazing.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“There’s a reason they call it Girls Gone Wild and not Women Gone Wild. When girls go wild, they show their breasts. When women go wild, they kill men. —Comedian Louis C.K.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“One intriguing study examined the effects of ovulation on the tips that professional lap dancers received while working in gentlemen’s clubs. Women with normal ovulatory cycles earned about $185 when they were menstruating, $260 when they were not menstruating nor ovulating, and $335 when they were ovulating. Perhaps the increase in tips was because the dancers unconsciously behaved differently.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“The vast majority of gay men prefer to masturbate while thinking about cowboys, firemen, or David Beckham instead of drag queens, ballet dancers, or Elton John.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“there is a common misconception that gay men are attracted to partners who are feminine and flamboyant.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“So why are straight guys so appealing to gay men? Because gay men are attracted to masculinity.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“Studies have found that high sex drive in women is associated with increased sexual attraction to both women and men, while high sex drive in men only enhances attraction to one or the other, depending on the man’s sexual orientation.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“The maxim “All the best men are taken” is doubly true. If a man is already taken by a woman, then by definition, he’s the best man—or certainly a more desirable man. If the exact same man is not taken, then his value is questionable—he’s certainly not as desirable as a man who has already received the stamp of approval from another woman’s Detective Agency.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“Women of all ages report dissatisfaction with their body far more often than men do. Anorexia and bulimia are about seven times more likely to occur in women than in men.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“Whereas male exhibitionism is usually considered a psychiatric disorder and a crime, female exhibitionism is rarely considered a social problem. Indeed, it’s frequently exploited commercially.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“Study after study has demonstrated the erotic appeal of male dominance. Women prefer the voices of dominant men, the scent of dominant men, the movement and gait of dominant men, and the facial features of dominant men.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan, authors of Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance Novels.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“But after the adolescent brain starts to change, women are twice as likely to suffer from mood disorders as men.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“Women are more likely to suffer from anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. Men are more likely to suffer from schizophrenia and autistic spectrum disorders.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“A man’s true character cannot be evaluated as swiftly or as easily as a woman’s bust size.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“man’s true character cannot be evaluated as swiftly or as easily as a woman’s bust size.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“The conclusions from Meredith Chivers’s groundbreaking research are inescapable: psychological and physical arousal are usually linked in men, but in women there’s a disconnect”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

“Bigger girls will have more fun, and will work twice as hard to meet the standards of the skinny girls most people find attractive.”
― Ogi Ogas, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships