Two bold young neuroscientists have initiated a revolution in the scientific study of sexual attraction. Before Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, the only researcher to systematically investigate sexual desires was Alfred Kinsey, who surveyed 18,000 middle-class Caucasians in the 1950s. But Ogas and Gaddam have studied the secret sexual behavior of more than a hundred million men and women around the world. Their method? They observed what people do within the anonymity of the Internet.
There is so much in this book I want to say to the world that it makes it impossible to give a decent synopsis: you really do have to read it all. It speaks to both sexes equally, is extremely funny, & there are no dull bits - every chapter is a highpoint. I only wish I had a crate of them so I could hand them out to everyone i met. I may post more about this in the future but for now just a tiny (& woefully inadequate) sample:
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B-but, but...I thought we were all blank slates, and our reactions to stimuli as well as our tastes were all artificially imposed on us by a big, bad evil patriarchy and its cultural norms.
ReplyDeleteTabula Rasa? But that was a thought experiment that philosophers used to paint thought-pictures with back before Immanuel Kant.
DeleteI mean, haven't these sort of people even read things like Chomsky's wholesale slaughter of Behaviorism, that shows that we DO have innate thoughts.
Oh my God, you're right!
ReplyDeleteI suppose I'd best take this down then..
I really enjoyed reading this book. At first I was turned off by the writing style. It is written with a sense of humor.
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