Essay: What Women Want In A Man.

I’ve been reading a book recently called ‘A Billion Wicked Thoughts’ in which two Neuroscientists explore the search engine history of pornographic searches on the internet (interesting). They discovered in their analysis that there is a crucial difference between what men and women are searching for on the web. When it comes to the saucy stuff, men predominantly search for images. At the same time, women prefer erotic stories, think 50 Shades Of Grey, Harlequin romances. This is no trivial thing. The romance industry grossed 1.37 billion in 2008 and has the single most significant share of the fiction market ever since. These erotic stories are big business and probably where I will end up when I tank as a real writer. A Billion Wicked Thoughts uses the differences in searching habits to highlight the typical differences in female and male desire and how female desire is often not what we are told.

I have only ever read one book of erotic stories by a woman called Anais Nin. While the…