Eduardo Santiago reviewed A billion wicked thoughts by Ogi Ogas
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3 stars
Neuro is hot these days. So is teh interwebs, I hear. Add some sex and you've got a recipe for a promising book... but I feel disappointed in this one. It feels hastily tossed together. It definitely wasn't: The text and the excellent end notes all indicate tremendous care, attention to detail. This is a responsible professional work. Yet it still feels unsatisfying, incomplete. The best way I can think of to describe my reaction is by quoting “The plural of anecdote is data”. This sure is a ton of data ... but what is it representative of?
Women are picky; men, not so much. Women like emotional connection; men prefer wham-bam. This may not surprise you. But what does it mean? Is it our nature? Our culture? We have a snapshot of web searches for porn, from a small set of users over a small window of time. That …
Neuro is hot these days. So is teh interwebs, I hear. Add some sex and you've got a recipe for a promising book... but I feel disappointed in this one. It feels hastily tossed together. It definitely wasn't: The text and the excellent end notes all indicate tremendous care, attention to detail. This is a responsible professional work. Yet it still feels unsatisfying, incomplete. The best way I can think of to describe my reaction is by quoting “The plural of anecdote is data”. This sure is a ton of data ... but what is it representative of?
Women are picky; men, not so much. Women like emotional connection; men prefer wham-bam. This may not surprise you. But what does it mean? Is it our nature? Our culture? We have a snapshot of web searches for porn, from a small set of users over a small window of time. That does tell us much about who we are ... but why? Is it our nature? Our upbringing in sex-negative religiously-tainted agricultural society?
Perhaps most importantly: who are the controls? That handful of people who aren't sitting in front of a computer screen entering keywords? What are they doing? What can we learn from them?
