Published in: September-October 2011 issue.
A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World’s Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire
by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam
Dutton. 394 pages, $26.95
GAY MEN have larger penises on average than do straight men, and, according to the authors of A Billion Wicked Thoughts, “you could even say that gay guys act more like men than straight guys do.” This is because gay and straight men are sexually identical (except in one crucial respect): both respond to visual stimuli, want sex with multiple partners, and like to download pornographic images—only gay men do these things even more robustly than straight men do.