A Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi Ogsa and Sai Gaddam

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“A Billion Wicked Thoughts” Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam
“’I think I might like that.’ –Mrs. Alfred Kinsey, upon being asked if she would like to have sex with her husband’s graduate student in the film Kinsey” (P. 152). This illustrates just one aspect of female sexual desire, sex with a younger man. This book explores the concepts of sexual desire for both males and females and answers the question of why we desire what we desire. Since most people are often worried about what society would think about their specific sexual desires, and therefore lie about what they truly desire, Ogas and Gaddam came up with a rather intelligent solution to this problem: The internet. The internet provides anonymity, so people don’t have to worry about what society will think. Using the internet as their database for approximately a year, they we able to compile a wide range of data concerning male and female desire. From this data, they discuss the differences in the male and female sexual psychologies, their variations in desire, and why we desire what we desire. It is also worth noting that they do so in a humorous way that is interesting and easy to understand. They explain the different kinds of kinky, and non-kinky, behavior that the two sexes are interested in, and they provide information and insight for the reasons behind this. Not only do they tell us what males and females desire, but they give explanations as to why we desire what we do. Using evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and the internet, Ogas and Gaddam provide us with a better understanding of human sexual desire.
The way the authors present their information is clear and organized. They present it in a way that entices the reader to keep reading. One of the ways they keep...

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...even twenty, this research method was inaccessible to us. The society in which we live in now is also different from the society in which we lived in twenty/thirty years ago. This subject has always been a bit offensive, though perhaps less now than twenty/thirty years ago, for the simple reason that it involves sex and sexual desires. The fact that this research was conducted and published shows us just how much our culture is growing and becoming more accommodating. I would definitely recommend it to other students and future students, and I have already recommended it to everyone I know. This book gets five stars.

Bibliography

American Pie. Dir. Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz. Universal Studios, 1999. DVD.

Ogas, Ogi, and Sai Gaddam. A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About
Sexual Relationships. New York: Plume, 2012. Print.

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