{"id":8474,"date":"2017-07-08T00:09:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T07:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8474"},"modified":"2017-07-04T11:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T18:05:51","slug":"is-my-husband-gay-is-my-wife-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/08\/is-my-husband-gay-is-my-wife-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Is my husband gay, is my wife crazy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Vox<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Proof that Americans are lying about their sexual desires<\/h1>\n

What Google searches for porn tell us about ourselves.<\/h2>\n

by Sean Illing<\/a><\/p>\n

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Two weeks ago, I interviewed <\/a>Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of Everybody Lies<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>a new book that uses data on America\u2019s Google habits as an insight into our national consciousness.<\/p>\n

Two findings from the book dominated the conversation: America is riddled with racist and selfish people, and there may be a self-induced abortion crisis in this country.<\/p>\n

But there was plenty more revelatory data in the book that we didn\u2019t cover. So I wanted to follow up with Stephens-Davidowitz to talk about some of the other provocative claims he is making.<\/p>\n

I was particularly interested in sexuality and online porn. If, as Stephens-Davidowitz puts it, \u201cGoogle is a digital truth serum,\u201d then what else does it tell us about our private thoughts and desires? What else are we hiding from our friends, neighbors, and colleagues?<\/p>\n

A lot, apparently.<\/p>\n

Among other things, Stephens-Davidowitz\u2019s data suggests that there are more gay men in the closet than we think; that many men prefer overweight women to skinny women but are afraid to act on it; that married women are disproportionately worried their husband is gay; that a lot of straight women watch lesbian porn; and that porn featuring violence against women is more popular among women than men.<\/p>\n

I asked Stephens-Davidowitz to explain the data behind all of this. Here\u2019s what he told me.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at Vox<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Vox Proof that Americans are lying about their sexual desires What Google searches for porn tell us about ourselves. by Sean Illing Two weeks ago, I interviewed Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of Everybody Lies, a new book that uses data on America\u2019s Google habits as an insight into our national consciousness. Two findings from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}