Partial Book Review - Crypto-Nomicon

My friend Jesse is a pretty smart guy. He's always reading these big titled books and whatnot so I figured that if I read a couple of the same books as him that maybe I could learn a thing or two... or at the very least have something else to talk with him about. Upon his suggestion, I've read End of Faith by Sam Harris and Ice Hunt by James Rollins.

The End of Faith is a nonfiction piece that attempts to dismantle the sanctity of religious faith and explains the roots of some of our worldly conflict (Israel-Palestinian, Shiite-Sunni, Muslim-therestoftheworld, etc). It's deep and the bibliography is almost as long as the actual text of the book. James Rollins is a fantastic fiction writer and a new favorite of mine. Brain-candy as I like to call it - easy, quick reads with suspense and no real factual basis.

This leads me to my next book, an epic of 1100+ pages titled Crypto-Nomicon by Neal Stephenson. I'm only a hundred something pages into it and I ran across a quote today that got me thinking. It's about the super smart main character, Lawrence Waterhouse, who is a genius cryptographer (Page 90):

"At about the same time, Waterhouse has made a realization about himself. He has found that he works best when he is not horny, which is to say in the day or so following ejaculation. So as a part of his duty to the United States he has begun to spend a lot of time in whorehouses."

This got me thinking - is there a real correlation between the cycles of when you are horny and your measurable productivity? I've never thought about it before but I think I'm going to conduct a self-study about the relationship between my relative level of horniness and my productivity - or at least my drive for productivity.

I tried to find some legitimate research online to support either position of this suggestion but the only thing I found were a bunch of porn sites. I guess it's up to me to develop this theory in more detail!