TV rent-a-quote psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud is back with a new book out in January titled Simply Irresistible: The Psychology of Seduction. A better title might be “Simply Gullible: How To Give Yourself a Complex”.
Like the good ideas and words lifter he is – just do the Google search box check “raj persaud plagiarism” – he has drawn his dragnet for a multitude of other people’s work on finding and keeping the perfect partner. Sadly, the market in people who imagine that perfection is to be found through scientific strategy is still a lucrative one, and Our Raj is up there with Cosmopolitan in peddling any current researched superstition backed by stats.
And then there are the items of info that are perfectly useless. Take the one starting on p170. Tape measure in hand, he reports the findings of the “largest scientific survey of penis size ever conducted in the world” by what he calls “the Kinsey Institute of Sex Research” (he means the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender & Reproduction). “Their finding is that homosexual men have larger penises … than heterosexual men … by one cubic inch in volume.”
Now, there's a good conversational gambit! Female size queens will just love that - your well endowed perfect partner is a man who doesn't want to sleep with you.
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