A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire (44 page)

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half of women’s fantasies reflect the desire to be sexually irresistible
Ellis & Symons (1990).
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Women frequently fantasize about being a stripper
Strassberg & Lockerd (1998). Forty-seven percent of women reported the fantasy of “seeing themselves as a striptease dancer, harem girl, or other performer,” and 50 percent had fantasized about “delighting many men.”
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“If a woman’s got a pretty body”
Levy (2006).
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sexting
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/18688245/detail.html
, retrieved September 12, 2010.
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Real Sex for Real Women
Berman (2008).
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a parallel between female irresistibility and a sexual cue in the female rat
Meana (2010).
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Both pacing and the reward for pacing are controlled by software
Becker (2008). Also Meana (2010): “Bancroft deftly reviewed research suggesting that in the proceptive phase, female rats are in control, darting and hopping around the interested male, thereby pacing the frequency of his mounts. These sexual contacts have been shown to be rewarding (as evidenced by the conditioning of place preference) to the female rat, quite apart from intromission.”
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Anorexia and bulimia
Becker (2008).
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Women express much greater body image self-consciousness
Meana (2010).
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“One Rape, Please (to go)”
http://www.viceland.com/int/v14n8/htdocs/rape.php
, retrieved on August 30, 2010.
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widespread prevalence of female coercive fantasies
Critelli & Bivona (2008).
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an understandable source of discomfort and hand-wringing
Meana (2010),
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html?pagewanted=all
, retrieved on August 30, 2010.
Leitenberg & Henning (1995): Thirty percent of women had the fantasy “I’m a slave who must obey a man’s every wish,” and 22 percent had the fantasy “I’m made to suffer before a man will satisfy me sexually.”
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“Arousal is not consent”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html?pagewanted=all
, retrieved on August 30, 2010.
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Christine Monson’s 1984
Stormfire
“Because as I’ve said before, if the hero had a beer gut and one droopy eye with caterpillar eyebrows, the woman would be screaming her head off and running for the sunset. But if the hero is a ‘dark Irish devil’ with all the beauty of a fallen angel and abs like rock-hard nuggets of goodness, the woman would be screaming her head off and running for the sunset but not upset if she gets caught by him again.”
http://www.ripmybodice.com/2010/04/05/even-with-1-ball-more-alpha-than-the-rest/
.
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It’s the wish to be beyond will
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html?pagewanted=all
, retrieved on August 30, 2010.
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Literotica is the single most popular English-language erotic story site
More on the history of erotic stories on the Web:
http://www.asstr.org/~JournalofDesire/v3n2/Jekyll-SexStories.html
.
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Harry Potter stories on AdultFanFiction.net
Top sexual tags for Harry Potter stories on AdultFanFiction.net, scraped in May 2010:
 
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a fan fiction story by Miss Stephanie
http://hp.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600025374
, retrieved on August 30, 2010.
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“the explosion that was building within him”
One reader admiringly comments on Miss Stephanie’s story, “He may be a psychopath, but a HOT psychopath. Damn. I like how he pulled his cock out of her and slapped her clit with it. Nice visual.”
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a scene in
Legally Blonde
Other movies that feature enhanced male sex appeal due to faked female interest:
She’s Out of My League
,
Love Don’t Cost a Thing
,
Sex Drive
,
American Pie
,
Year One
,
Along Came Polly
,
The Heartbreak Kid
. Also worth considering: Rachel Uchitel, one of Tiger Woods’s mistresses, is still attracted to Tiger despite—or because of?—all his other mistresses.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/tigerwoods/7962948/Rachel-Uchitel-wants-to-rekindle-Tiger-Woods-romance.html
.
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the virgin’s Magic Hoo Hoo captures his full attention
Similar narratives:
The Golden Touch
by Laura London. The heroine is a vicar’s daughter, the hero a famous musician. She also wrote one called
The Lightning That Lingers
, about a librarian and a (male) stripper. Very charming books, and surprisingly un-rapey for the early eighties.
There’s Perfect
, by Judith McNaught. The heroine is a librarian, the hero a film star on the run.
Rock Star
by Roslyn Hardy Holco. The heroine is a librarian, the hero is a rock star.
The Good, the Bad and the Sexy
by Emily Carmichael. He’s a movie star, she owns a ranch.
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Former Playboy playmate Kendra Wilkinson
Abridged from
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/12/hugh-hefner-i-have-sex-tw_n_643303.html
, retrieved on August 20, 2010.
119
“Omega” heroes
Knight (2007).
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“It sounded very Muggle”
http://hp.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600025374
, retrieved on August 30, 2010.
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a type of discussion known as “meta”
http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/moonbeam/terms.html
.
120
“the thing that unequivocally sucked me in”
http://cesperanza.livejournal.com/174095.html
, retrieved on August 30, 2010.
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pop singer Beyoncé
Beyoncé, “Why Don’t You Love Me?”
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“nature designed women to be lovable”
Roy Baumeister, “Is There Anything Good About Men?”American Psychological Association, Invited Address, 2007.
http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm
, retrieved on August 30, 2010.
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the greatest sexual self-delusion in men
http://roissy.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/common-shit-tests/
.
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The male brain is designed for sexual jealousy
Symons (1979).
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falling in love with the heroine represents an emotional deflowering
Wendell & Tan (2009).
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“sex is judged not to be worth the risk”
Meana (2010).
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reason why fetishes are so much more common in men
Laws & O’Donohue (2008).
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focus attention on female sexual plasticity
Baumeister (2000). “The greater consensual lesbianism in prison (as compared with consensual homosexuality among imprisoned males) would be interpreted by the selective control explanation as a sign that prison frees women from the compulsive heterosexuality enforced by society, reinforcing greater female erotic plasticity.”
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Anne Heche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Heche
, retrieved on August 30, 2010.
125
found that high sex drive in women
Lippa (2006).
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Men, however, are eminently capable of mentally partitioning sex and romance
Fisher et al. (2002).
CHAPTER 7
 
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The average length of the gay penis
Bogaert & Hershberger (1999). Gay men are thicker too: straights have a penis circumference of 4.80 inches, while gay men have 4.95 inches.
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“This kid that is here now is so fucking hot”
http://thorandrocco.wordpress.com/
.
133
the gay interest in masculinity appears to be as fixed and inflexible
APA (2009),
Report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation
.
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converting homosexual desire into heterosexual desire through conditioning
Moan & Heath (1972).
133
opposes such ill-advised and ultimately unethical attempts
APA (2009),
Report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation.
133
a binary “gender cue”
Ponseti et al. (2006).
134
the one hundred top-rated video clips on Gaytube
The hundred top-rated videos were retrieved on October 21, 2010.
135
the seven most popular categories of gay sexual searches
See Dogpile data description for more information. Dogpile gay sexual searches:
 
 
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Tom of Finland
http://www.eroticarts.com/
.
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Below are two lists
Gay stories consist of all stories in the category
gay
on Nifty, scraped in February 2010. Fanfic stories consist of stories across multiple fandoms on
AdultFanFiction.net
scraped in March 2010. The genres scraped were:
anime
,
books
,
buffy
,
comics
,
Barry Potter, movies
, and
television
. These genres contained the most stories.

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