Full of Sound and Fury
I note in The Register feed this morning an article that a researcher at U California has determined that in the mean women speak 2.E+04 words per day while men speak 7.E+03.[Link] The same report indicates that men think about sex approximately once a minute while women think about it once per day.
Sadly the reportage does not establish what the connection or relationship between these two data are. Is the difference in energy used by men thinking about sex equal to 1.3E+04 words per day? Or is the male brain so consumed with processing sexual thoughts that fewer words can be uttered – in effect, a sort of wetware denial of service attack? Or the number of words said scales as the sixth root of the period of sex thought?
I must admit that my first reaction here was that I obviously not only talk too little but I think too seldom or infrequently of sex. In fact, I don’t even recall thinking that much about sex or saying that many words when I was an undergraduate.
