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

by Ogi Ogas

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  INDEX

  Abbey, Edward

  Ache people

  adolescence

  adorability cues

  Adult Fan Fiction

  Agastya, Sage

  age-related sexual interests. See also specific age-related groups: and female interests; and imprinting process; and Internet searches; and male sexual interests; and ornamentation; and romance writing

  Alexa Adult List: and categorizations of Web sites; and cuckold porn; and gay porn; and group sex porn; and male visual cues and T-girl porn

  alpha males

  amateur porn

  American Psychiatric Association

  American Psychological Association

  America Online (AOL): data set; and age-related searches; and bondage-related searches; and female porn searches; and foot-related searches; and gay searches; and penis-related searches; release of users’ search histories; and user loyalty

  amputation fetish

  amygdala

  androgens

  animal research: and conditioning; and dominance/submission; and female irresistibility; and imprinting; and male visual cues; and material resources; and novelty cues; and objectification of female anatomy; and ornamentation; and ovulation cycles; and penises; and sexual competition; and sexual imprinting; and sperm competition

  anime and animated porn

  anonymity

  anorexia

  Aranda people

  asymmetrical fitness

  Austen, Jane

  authenticity cue

  autism

  autogynephilia

  autonomic nervous system

  Avon Books

  Bait Bus

  Bang Bus

  Baumeister, Roy

  BBW (Big, Beautiful Women)

  behavioral adaptations

  Behrendt, Greg

  Belle de Jour (1967)

  Berliner-Mauer, Eija-Riitta

  Berman, Laura

  Berscheid, Ellen

  beta males

  Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance Novels (Wendell and Tan)

  bicuckolds

  billionaires

  bisexuality

  Black, Jack

  blacks in porn

  blindness

  boarding school culture

  Bodilis, Hervé

  body image and body maps

  body-type/size interests

  Bogard, Rebecca

  Boing Boing

  bondage and BDSM. See also dominance, sexual

  bonobos

  boobpedia

  Botox

  bottoms

  Boyle, Elizabeth

  brain physiology: and body maps; and female sensory cues; and female sexual disorders; gay and straight brains compared; and gay cues; and gender differences; and jealousy; and male arousal; and objections to porn; and sexual dominance/submission; and sexual fulfillment; and social dominance; and social networking; and transformation fiction; and transgression cues; and visual cues

  Brazzers

  breasts; large breasts

  Brockmann, Suzanne

  Brockway, Connie

  bukkake

  bulimia

  Bullock, Sandra

  Burroughs, William S.

  Buss, David

  butts: and animal research; and anime; and body-type interests; and female desire; and gay desire; and gay erotica; and Internet searches; and male visual cues; and MILF porn

  Byron, George Gordonr />
  cameltoe

  candid porn

  Capilano Canyon Suspension Bridge experiment

  Casanova, Giacomo

  castration

  casual sex

  CCBill

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  CFMN (clothed female naked male)

  Chamberlain, Wilt

  Chandler, Rex

  Charlain, Harris

  Chat Roulette

  cheerleaders

  chests. See also breasts

  Chivers, Meredith

  Chloe

  Choisy, Abbé de

  Clark, Russell

  Clinton, Bill

  Clinton, Hillary

  Clooney, George

  coconut; romance hero as a wild coconut

  coercion fantasies

  Cole, Susan

  Collins, Jackie