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the most popular body part in sexual searches
Russian data scraped by us from the Russian search engine Yandex in spring 2010, from
http://www.yandex.ru/last20.html
. Germany, India, and Saudia Arabia data calculated using Google trends, and refers to searches entered into Google USA from those territories.
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the number of times she was approached by men
Gueguen (2007).
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4,287 large breast Web sites in the Alexa Adult List
See our description of our Alexa Adult List data.
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synonyms for “large” appear in sexual searches
From our Dogpile data.
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“I like small breasts”
Fatel,
Miniskirts and Muffins
(2004).
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a twenty-two-year-old’s breasts often resemble a Western forty-year-old’s
Personal e-mail communications, Donald Symons, 2010. Also see Dixson et al. (2010).
Out of the 55 million Dogpile sexual searches, there were 2,868 searches for “dark areola,” 423 for “brown areola,” and 305 for “pink areola.” The color of a woman’s nipples is an even less influential visual cue. There are no adult sites on the Alexa Adult List dedicated to dark nipples or light nipples. Overall, men seem to place much greater emphasis on the size of nipples and areolas (the bigger the better), rather than their color. Below is a list of the most frequently occurring adjectives with sexual searches for “nipple” on Dogpile:
 
 
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explaining the widespread male interest in feet
Krafft-Ebing & Rebman (1906). In pornography, it’s quite common for actresses to keep their high heels on during sex. Many men find this arousing. However, men typically do not keep their footwear on during sex, and when they do, women frequently urge men to take them off, including their socks.
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rate small female feet as more attractive
Fessler et al. (2005). Another study found similar results in Austria and Canada: Voracek et al. (2007).
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additional clues supporting an innate male interest in foot cues
Personal e-mail communications, June 2010.
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searches for foot erotica are highly correlated with searches for bondage and submission porn
The expected number of overlapping searchers for
feet
and
domination/submission
searchers in the AOL data set: 1.40. Obtained: 34.
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stockings are also highly correlated with sexual searches for feet
The expected number of overlapping searchers for
feet
and
pantyhose/ stocking
searchers in the AOL data set: 0.17. Obtained: 13.
“Ludacris: I have. I try not to judge. I let God judge. But I definitely love girls with beautiful feet. I have a foot fetish. Messed up feet man, sometimes she can trick me and just wear boots and not even show her feet. But when I see the feet, it’s a wrap. And I don’t like girls with hairy legs. I kind of like it to be nice and smooth. A little hair never hurt anybody. But when it gets a little too much, that’s when it’s not good anymore.”
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“I told him we’re all gay, buddy”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811045/
. Quotes retrieved on August, 30, 2010
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45 percent of men wanted a larger penis
Lever et al. (2006).
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men consistently direct their gaze to the male crotch
Nielsen & Pernice (2009). Also worth considering: Ponseti et al. (2006): The temporal-occipital junction is hypothesized to respond to sexual stimuli. In homosexual men, it responds strongly to penises, but not to vaginas. In heterosexual men, however, it responds to both vaginas and penises. (In heterosexual women, it responds to penises, but not vaginas.)
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twenty-one feature close-up shots of a penis
We downloaded the one hundred highest-rated images on Fantasti.cc on May 10, 2009. We submitted these images to workers on Amazon Turk. There were three taggers for each image, and we counted any tag that was shared by two or more raters (e.g., “close-up of penis”).
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2 percent of men wish they had a smaller penis
Lever et al. (2006).
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9 percent of women who wish they had smaller breasts
http://www.mynippon.com/women/bsize.htm
, retrieved on August 29, 2010. There were 144,000 breast reductions in 2004, according to:
http://www.imageps.com/pdf/Liposuction%20Breast%20Recuction.pdf
.
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more than six times the number of searches for “big dick”
“Big dick” searches: 47,476. “Small dick” searches: 7,861.
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1,072 Web sites in the Alexa Adult List
Another 313 gay Web sites are devoted to large penises.
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Mr. Amish
User #2567521.
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One possible explanation may lie with our primate cousins
“Anyways, if that isn’t enough bad behavior for you, think about this: macaque males will attack their enemy when he is at his weakest: during orgasm. Attackers often use considerable cunning to get near their victim without arousing any suspicion. They may feign indifference by barely glancing at him, digging casually in the sand or pretending to collect handfuls of pebbles. But the moment their victim ejaculates, they jump him, hitting, biting and tugging at his fur.”
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13618502.900-science-macaque-attacks-succeed-best-during-sex-.html
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erect penis can provoke hostility and attacks
Edwards (1997).
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a visual cue that motivates males to copulate
Pound (2002).
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visible sign of a male’s general health
Dawkins (2006) [1978], endnote, p. 158. “It is not implausible that, with natural selection refining their diagnostic skills, females could glean all sorts of clues about a male’s health, and robustness of his ability to cope with stress, from the tone and bearing of his penis.”
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“the fondling of the penis and scrotum”
Bagemihl (1999).
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among the Australian Walbiri and Aranda people
Bagemihl (1999).
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men have inherited our primate cousins’ attentiveness to the penis
Some pictures and a description are contained here:
http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/ethnobotany/Yali2.pdf
, retrieved August 29, 2010.
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what he saw on 1,276 consecutive Chat Roulette sessions
http://www.cpeterson.org/2010/02/12/dispatches-from-the-front-12-hours-on-chatroulette/
, retrieved on August 29, 2010.
“1276 cams viewed:
Conversations: 34
Avg. Conversation Duration: 23.7 sec
Long: 5 min 56 sec
298 naked masturbating men
678 non masturbating males
152 fake cams
148 females or mixed m/f boobs shown you ask? 0.0
EDIT: Cum shots: 2
man having sex with raccoon viewed 23 times.
Not counted: repeats, no cam, empty rooms, people with dolls and signs.” One person even developed software to track penis sightings on Chat Roulette:
http://chatroulettecockmap.com/
.
A video of people counting penises during five minutes on Chat Roulette can be found here:
http://mprodgers.posterous.com/chatroulette-challenge-how-many-penises-can-y
. The total count of Chat Roulette sessions that contained nudity or actions of a sexual nature: 14 penises and a masturbating girl.
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an image of their penis as their avatar
We collected 5,626 male avatars and 958 female avatars from Fantasti.cc in May 2010 and had three workers on Amazon Turk tag each image according to its visual category (e.g., “penis”). We then categorized and counted those avatars where two or more workers applied the same tag.
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On reddit’s heterosexual Gone Wild forum
We downloaded 768 images from
http://www.reddit.com/r/gonewild
in May 2010 and submitted them to three Amazon Turk raters. We used ratings where two or more workers used the same tag to annotate the image.
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clinical psychiatrists do not consider them dangerous
Levine et al. (2010).
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the urge to exhibit oneself
Leitenberg and Henning (1995). “Freund, Scher,and Hucker (1984) did not find any difference in arousal to consenting scenes between exhibitionists and a control group of nonoffenders. Both groups showed greatest arousal to consenting intercourse imagery. A subsequent study conducted by Marshall, Payne, Barbaree, and Eccles (1991) found that only 13.6% of exhibitionists had greater arousal to cues of exposure than to cues of consenting sexual activity. However, 34% of the exhibitionists but none of the controls had a response to the exposure stimuli that was at least 70% of the response to normal consenting stimuli. In addition, as a whole, the exhibitionists showed greater arousal than the control participants to the exposure scenes. Even so, Marshall, Payne, et al. (1991) concluded that the importance of deviant sexual arousal in exhibitionism is exaggerated.” Contrary to what one might expect, voyeurs rarely go to strip shows, look at pornography, or attend nudist camps. Yalom (1960), Sagarin (1973).
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“The act was more magical than sexual”
Rentzel (1973).
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Her voice is extremely high-pitched
Bryant & Haselton (2009). Also see
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/cat_brain_sexuality.html
, retrieved on August 30, 2010.
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sometimes longer than a girl’s arm
cf.
http://www.sayhentai.com/
.
CHAPTER 3
 
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“given enough time, I’m going to have sex with it”
Joe Rogan’s
Shiny Happy Jihad
(2007).
“We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.”—Lily Tomlin.
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What does a hen need to turn a rooster on?
From a paper with one of the most unintentionally amusing titles in biology: Carbaugh, B. T., M. W. Schein, et al. “Effects of Morphological Variations of Chicken Models on Sexual Responses of Cocks.”
Animal Behaviour
10(3–4): 235–238.
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a red comb.
Cornwallis & Birkhead. (2007).

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