...book called "A Billion Wicked Thoughts", that was written by a bunch of engineers at Google.
And they were looking at billions of search... billions of Google searches.
And you know, there's no shortage of pornography on the Internet.
And there's much less by proportion, than there was when the Internet was first invented.
And it's so interesting, because it actually turned out, that one of the things that drove
the development of the Internet and the technology - was the proclivity of young men to search out sexually provocative images.
That was, what was at the forefront of the development of the net. Extraordinarily interesting.
They were motivated to use it for that purpose, and that provided the platform from which it emerged. Amazing.
Anyways...
The Google engineers looked at pornographic search processes,
and then segregated male searches from female searches.
And what they found, was that the males searched out images - surpise surprise, no one considers that, you know, particularly interesting.
But the females searched out literary representations of pornography, it was written.
And so, I can give you an example of that, if...
You know about harlequin romances, does everybody still know about those? Anybody not know about those?
Okay well, they're mass-market romances, and of a very stereotypical type.
And uh...
They're- the original ones were pretty harmless, in terms of: no violence, and no real sexual content.
But, that was 40 years ago, and they differentiated tremendously, and now there's
hardcore harlequin romances, with particularly garish covers,
and then there's the old, you know, more tame, basic, sexless and aggression-less
romances, where everything is implied, and not explicit.
But the explicit ones exist.
So, they did a plot analysis of the typical pornographic female fantasy.
Well, and it was so... it's so comical. Because engineers did this,
and social scientists would never do this, because they'd be
probably too concerned about the ethics of it, or some damn thing.
But engineers, you know, they'll just plow ahead with no concern whatsoever for such things.
And they actually discover things that way. And so,
they discovered the basic plot of the female pornographic literary product.
And they identified...
So basically, what happened was that a innocent, well-meaning and attractive young woman
encounters a male, who's a bit of a monster.
And the monster- There's 5 types of classic male monster. For all you males who want to know, this is what you can become.
Vampire, that's a good one,
werewolf,
billionaire,
pirate,
and surgeon.
Okay, so that's very interesting, because...
Well first of all, there's a dominance thing, there's a-
Now, you're actually blushing, you know. You're actually blushing about that. That's very, very funny, so...
Hah!
Sorry to point it out, but it's so comical, you know.
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I know, I know! It's so funny, I was reading this.
I was reading this, it was just cracking me up! I thought "Oh my God, really?"
Pirate, vampire... oh, that explains it, what about all these damn vampire shows, right?
They're so popular online, they're so popular on Netflix.
Oh yes, and then there's the werewolf; there's nothing sexier than a werewolf, apparently.
But I mean, so there's predatory dominance, that's implicit in that, right?
With the billionaire it's more abstract, but clearly that's an indication of
very high success in the male dominance hierarchy, so.
But there's this desire for aggression, that's in that. A real aggression, right?
And it's not surprising to me at all. It makes perfect sense.
Um,
but the basic plot is, that the woman encounters this...
...mysterious and aggressive male, and tames him.
That's the female hero myth, as far as I can tell. It's "Beauty and the Beast".
And so, it's because...
Well, there's no fun in taming someone, who's already tame.
And what makes you think, you really want someone who's tame anyways? There's no interest in that.
Plus, when Chaos manifests itself, what makes you think that someone tame is gonna be good for anything?
And it's a real question. And so, that aggression is absolutely vital, it's absolutely necessary.
But, because it's incredibly dangerous - which, of course it is - it has to be civilized.
And so what happens, is that the archetypal female in these pornographic romances
seduces and tames the aggressive male.
And that's her encounter with Chaos. Now, it's more, it's more complex...
Of course, females. They're more complicated, and that's exactly how it is.
And it's no wonder, because their lives are more complicated.
But - okay...