Saturday, May 14, 2011

Move Over, Kinsey: A Billion Wicked Thoughts

Ogi Ogas's new book, A Billion Wicked Thoughts, analyzes a billion web searches from around the world in an attempt to survey the modern sexual mind. One of the goals of this work was to catalog and analyze human sexual interests in a more conclusive and definite matter than the mid 20th century's Kinsey Reports.

A Billion Wicked Findings
The book's findings make interesting reading, including a commonality of kink between heterosexual and homosexual men; in order of preference favorite body parts go chests, buttocks, feet. Straight men prefer heavy women to thin ones. Straight women enjoy reading about and watching romances between men, particularly where the emotion, rather than sex, is the focus. Straight men have a fascination with other men's penises.

None of this is shocking to anyone with an ear to the fetish community in the slightest, despite the reactions it seems to be getting. What it is doing is giving sex therapists and hopefully the general public a broader view of what 'normal' is.

Top Internet Sex Searches
According to Dogpile, the top 10 sex related searches are variations of these terms:
  1. Youth
  2. Gay
  3. MILFs
  4. Breasts
  5. Cheating Wives
  6. Vaginas
  7. Penises
  8. ???
  9. Butts
  10. Cheerleaders
The question marks indicate something blocked out of the book by the authors - what was it that they discovered that they felt was too dirty to be reported upon?

Conclusions
Other information implies that men fantasize about group sex more-so than women, particularly orgies with more male participants. Straight men prefer to watch amateur porn. Gay men and straight women are most interested in the submissive aspects of D/s porn, and gay men enjoy straight porn in large numbers.

The underlying thesis is that there's no such thing as sexual deviance, and that such cases of fetishism have been improperly diagnosed by clinicians. One hopes that this consensus results from the data at hand, but some have already been speculating that the wider availability of internet porn's variety has been shaping people's sexual appetites, rather than merely reflecting them.

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