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I was reading this book called "A Billion Wicked Thoughts" that was written by a bunch of engineers at Google. They were looking at billions of Google searches. You know, there's no shortage of pornography on the internet. And, 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.
Anyways, the Google engineers looked at pornographic search processes and then segregated male searches from female searches. 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, they discovered the basic plot of the female pornographic literary product. And they identified, so basically what happened was that an innocent, well-meaning, and attractive young woman encounters a male who's a bit of a monster. And the monster, there's five 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 sorry to point it out, but it's so comical. You know, 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 dope. 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.
But what, but the basic plot is that the woman encounters this mysterious and aggressive male and tames them. 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, when, when chaos manifests itself, what makes you think that someone tame is going to 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 import, 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 complicated, of course. Females, they're more complicated. And that's exactly how it is. And it's no wonder because their, their lives are more complicated. [Music]