You may or may not have heard of the research of Drs. Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam. They are self-professed “rogue neuroscientists” who have angered feminists, progressives and conservatives alike by bringing up the touchy issue of biology as it pertains to modern human sexual relationships.
Whether you agree with their research findings or not, what they are writing about male and female sexual behavior is gripping and refreshingly controversial. I first found out about them through the Psychology Today article which circulated a few months ago, called Why Gender Equality Does Not Always Work In The Bedroom. It’s an interesting read, not least for my readers who are so moved and aroused by power exchange.
Which brings me to the big news! A friend told me this morning that a short excerpt from Comfort Object was featured in Chapter Five of Ogas’ and Gaddam’s big shiny new controversial book, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World’s Largest Experiment Reveals About Human Desire. Ooh, I was so thrilled. It was the scene where Jeremy is doing Nell over the back of the car on the way up the mountain to see his family at Christmastime. They were illustrating that while women’s erotica can be as explicit as male porn, it has an emotional component that male porn just doesn’t have.
Anyway, I just found it really, really cool that they chose me out of all the many authors they could have excerpted as examples. I have seen an uptick in sales of Comfort Object! I’ve downloaded Ogas and Gaddam’s book and I’m curious to read the rest of it. Mostly, I’m just excited to be mentioned in a book with the words “A Billion Wicked Thoughts” and “Human Desire” in the title. AWESOME!
That is just SO cool! Congrats on the mention in a totally legit science-y book. You’ll have to tell us what you think of it; I’m pretty tempted to check it out.
That is awesome! Now I want to read the book as well just to see your work mentioned! Congrats!
Thanks guys. I haven’t read much yet but my friend is about halfway through and says a lot of it is kind of restating the same premise over and over…that we are ruled by biology in various ways when it comes to our sexuality. Kind of like…duh. 😉
You should see if there is a way to tag yourself to the book on book selling sites.
Congrats BTW.
I was cranky about the Psychology Today article because it seemed to be totally lacking in scientific validity and I thought it was weird that they blamed feminism for ruining sex – as if all women were having amazing sex before feminism! Oh, and the article totally dismissed male subs and female doms.
But I *love* your books and the fact that they were smart enough to include an excerpt by you makes me think there might be something worth reading in A Billion Wicked Thoughts.
Well, there are certainly many things that people don’t like about that book. But I like that they started a new dialogue on sex and particularly people’s sexual lives on the internet. It will be interesting to see if it sparks any new studies.