Sex in the Title (48 page)

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Back in 2003, there was no hint that e-book readers would soon arrive and help to produce a whole new generation of enthusiastic readers!

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While all of these magazines existed when this novel was first written, Wikipedia indicates that Gear expired in 2003 and Stuff merged with Maxim in 2007.

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Ten years later, Google search results for “sex” grew from 90 million to 2.75 billion. “Love” skyrocketed from 63 million to 6.49 billion. “Soul” went from 12 million to 824 million, and “friendship” increased from 4 million to 310 million. So maybe Evan’s frustrations were related to an earlier zeitgeist, when the Internet was still in its infancy and “sex” dramatically prevailed over “love.” If only Evan had known that a decade later, “love” would emerge victorious on Google.

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The world population in 2003 was six billion. A decade later, it is over seven billion.

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The percentage of Nobel Laureates who are Jewish rose from about seventeen percent in 2003 to about twenty-two percent in 2012.

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The term is short for “Whiplash Libido” and Narc first applied it to Evan when they were college roommates and Narc tried to claim that Zoe dumped Evan because of his Whiplash Libido (and not because of Narc’s porn-watching habits).

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In 2003, there were about 3 billion women. Ten years later, women have increased their numbers by about half a billion (much to the relief of the roughly 500 million men who also joined the world).