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The Cosmo Interview: Contemporary sexuality and A Billion Wicked Thoughts

    Photo credit:  Pedrosimoes7,  via Creative Commons. I was recently interviewed by Karen Robertson for Cosmopolitan South Africa on the subject of the new book A Billion Wicked Thoughts, which has been extensively reviewed on these pages.    Ms. Robertson’s article “Is Kinky the New Normal?” appeared in Cosmopolitan South Africa in July 2011. Thanks [...]

What turns men on, really?

    (Fifth in a series of articles discussing A Billion Wicked Thoughts, a controversial new book by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam that uses the internet to study human sexuality in some new and unusual ways. Photocredit:  Pedrosimoes7 )   As simple as it gets “Wolfgang likes to look at images of female derrieres.  [...]

The elements of desire

    (Fourth in a series of articles discussing A Billion Wicked Thoughts, a controversial new book by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam that uses the internet to study human sexuality in some new and unusual ways. Photo credit:  Pedrosimoes7)   There’s an app for that Much like your average personal computer, the human brain [...]

Studying sexuality, one mouse-click at a time.

    (Second in a series of articles discussing A Billion Wicked Thoughts, a controversial new book by neuroscientists Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam that uses the internet to study human sexuality in some new and unusual ways.  Photo credit:  pedrosimoes7) Dr Kinsey meets Masters+Johnson Since Alfred Kinsey and his associates published Sexual Behavior in [...]

The strange new science behind “A Billion Wicked Thoughts”

    A shocking discovery It’s not so unusual these days for a woman to discover pornographic pictures on her husband’s computer.  But the images that one wife found recently were especially shocking.  Her first thought when she found them was, “This is the end of our marriage.” Her next thought was, “This is the end [...]