***A BILLION WICKED THOUGHTS***
"In 1973, psychologist Kenneth Gergen conducted a bold social psychology
experiment that would have a snowball's chance in hell of passing muster with a
contemporary ethics committee (Gergen, Gergen & Barton, 1973). Gergen wanted to
know what people did under conditions of extreme anonymity. To find out, he
constructed an experiment whereby 4 men and 4 women entered a small, padded room,
one at a time. The participants did not know each other before the experiment and were
kept in isolation prior to entering the room. Once the participants entered the room, they
were free to do whatever they liked. There were no instructions and no rules. At the end
of the experiment, the participants left the room one at a time without learning each
others' identities. What makes the experiment so interesting was that the room, itself, was
pitch dark, providing the participants complete anonymity.
The results were astonishing, to say the least. Approximately 90% of the subjects
intentionally touched someone else. A third of the subjects began kissing one another.
Overall, 80% of the men and women reported feelings of sexual excitement. With their
anonymity ensured by the veil of darkness, the participants expressed behaviors free of
the shackles of social constraints. In their book, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the
World's Largest Experiment Reveals About Human Desire, Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam
use Gergen's darkened room as a metaphor for the Internet. As the authors state, the
Internet is a much larger version of the Gergen experiment, ensuring anonymity for
billions of individuals and freeing them to act upon their sexual desires unbound by social
judgment. In effect, "[b]illions of people around the planet are free to satisfy their most
secret erotic desires ...while remaining hidden and anonymous within the Internet's
virtual darkness"
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Here are some interesting findings disclosed in the book A BILLION WICKED THOUGHTS ...
(1) Men and women have hardwired sexual cues analogous to our hardwired tastes-there are sexual versions of sweet, sour, salty, savory, and bitter. But men and women are wired with different sets of cues.
(2) The male sexual brain resembles a reckless hunter, while the female sexual brain resembles a cautious detective agency.
(3) Men form their sexual interests during adolescence and rarely change. Women's sexual interests are plastic and change frequently.
(4) The male sexual brain is an "or gate": A single stimulus can arouse it. The female sexual brain is an "and gate": It requires many simultaneous stimuli to arouse it.
(5) When it comes to sexual arousal, men prefer overweight women to underweight women, and a significant number of men seek out erotic images of women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s.
(6) Women enjoy writing and sharing erotic stories with other women. The fastest growing genre of erotic stories for women are stories about two heterosexual men having sex.
(7) Though the male sexual brain is much more different from the female sexual brain than is commonly believed, the sexual brain of gay men is virtually identical to that of straight men.
Here are the two neuroscientists explaining men's fascination with shemales ...
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