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

Ogi Ogas

Two maverick neuroscientists use the world's largest psychology experiment-the Internet-to study the private activities of millions of men and women around the world, unveiling a revolutionary and shocking new vision of human desire that overturns conventional thinking.

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

The book was cited by the hosts as a data‑driven analysis of online pornography that revealed gender differences in fantasy content and highlighted archetypal hero figures. It was praised as an interesting and brilliant work by Google engineers that mapped billions of searches to show patterns such as women’s preference for literary porn and recurring character types. The discussion emphasized its usefulness for understanding human desire and cultural narratives.

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Episode: 327. Women, Pornography, and Sadism | Dr. Del Paul...

The book, written by Google engineers, was mentioned as an analysis of pornography use among men and women based on billions of searches and its insights into the characteristics that women find attractive in men, including aggression and empathy.

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I don't know I read a book a while back called a billion wicked thoughts it's a very very interesting book. It was written by Google engineers and one of the things they did was analyze pornography use between men and women and on and with billions of searches literally and they found which is not surprising that men preferred visual pornography but females preferred literary pornography and they found the classic literary pornography plot which was something like relatively innocent but undervalued and attracted to the people who are in the same way as the people who are in the same way.

It's not so attractive but not so obviously attractive young woman stumbles across this sort of commanding man who has many women at his disposal and over time despite his relatively high levels of aggression he finds himself attracted to this woman and then forms a sexual relationship with her.

I mean the beast plot essentially but one of the things that's so interesting about their analysis was they listed the top five occupations or characters for female sexual literature and they were pirate surgeon billionaire vampire and pilot.

Episode: 261. Avoiding School Shootings and the Boy Crisis...

It was discussed as a brilliant book based on Google engineers' analysis of pornography usage patterns, particularly highlighting differences between men and women and how those patterns reinforce certain archetypes of masculinity and femininity.

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so I read this book called billion wicked thoughts that the Google engineers had put together by analyzing patterns of pornography use among men and women and it's really quite a brilliant book

Episode: 485. The Rebirth of God: Pathology and Promise | J...

The book is mentioned in relation to research on pornography use online and the canonical hero archetype of female pornography. It details what constitutes the object of female pornographic desire.

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the google engineers mapped this when they were looking at pornography use online in a very good book called a billion wicked thoughts

Episode: 503. One Woman’s War on P*rnhub | Laila Mickelwait

The hosts referred to a book by Google engineers that examines how sexual attraction and pornography differ between the sexes, noting it as a great resource on the topic.

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There's a great book by the Google engineers called A Billion Wicked Thoughts. Do you know that book?

No, I don't.

Behind the Bastards

This book, written by Google engineers, was cited by Jordan Peterson to support his claim that women prefer literary pornography, particularly 50 Shades of Gray, as opposed to visual porn.

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So there's a book called a billion wicked thoughts that was written by Google engineers who are quite reliable social scientists when they put their minds to it engineer types because they tend to fol...

— Episode: Part Two: We Watch More of Jordan Peters...

Episode: Part Two: We Watch More of Jordan Peterson's New S...

This book, written by Google engineers, was cited by Jordan Peterson to support his claim that women prefer literary pornography, particularly 50 Shades of Gray, as opposed to visual porn.

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So there's a book called a billion wicked thoughts that was written by Google engineers who are quite reliable social scientists when they put their minds to it engineer types because they tend to follow the data independent of any political inclination and they looked at patterns of pornography use among men and women drawing on literally billions of data points a billion wicked thoughts and they found was something that had been reported previously, but this was on a very large scale that men use visual pornography.

and they found was something that had been reported previously, but this was on a very large scale that men use visual pornography. I don't think that comes as a shock to anyone but that women's preferred pornographic art form is literary the women like stories and they analyze the canonical female pornographic fantasy and it's basically surprise surprise 50 shades of gray.

Timcast IRL

This book, written by two neuroscientists, analyzed worldwide Pornhub server data to show what men and women downloaded privately, revealing fascinating insights into sexual preferences.

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Oh, dude. Please, everyone. It is two neuroscientists. I interrupted you. I apologize. But I wanted to jump on this. It's two neuroscientists. And they looked at Pornhub's worldwide server to see what...

— Episode: Airlines Cancel Over 700 Flights, Travel...

Episode: Airlines Cancel Over 700 Flights, Travel APOCALYPS...

This book, written by two neuroscientists, analyzed worldwide Pornhub server data to show what men and women downloaded privately, revealing fascinating insights into sexual preferences.

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Oh, dude. Please, everyone. It is two neuroscientists. I interrupted you. I apologize. But I wanted to jump on this. It's two neuroscientists. And they looked at Pornhub's worldwide server to see what people download when nobody is looking. No boy. You'll find the countries that are into granny porn more than anything else, and there's a reason for it. It's fucking crazy. And what men like, but also what women like.

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