Camille Paglia takes a shot at explaining the female sexual apathy for which drug makers seek to provide a “female Viagra”. She makes a few good observations, including:

In the discreet white-collar realm, men and women are interchangeable, doing the same, mind-based work. Physicality is suppressed; voices are lowered and gestures curtailed in sanitized office space. Men must neuter themselves, while ambitious women postpone procreation. Androgyny is bewitching in art, but in real life it can lead to stagnation and boredom, which no pill can cure.

Let that sink in for a minute and then see what you think of this:

The sexes, which used to occupy intriguingly separate worlds, are suffering from over-familiarity, a curse of the mundane. There’s no mystery left.

Mystery… It almost seems like a nasty word in this day and age. Like mystery is a shameful failure instead of the main fixture of our human condition. Read more: Op-Ed Contributor – No Sex Please, We’re Middle Class – NYTimes.com.

Jessica Bennett lists 10 facts (although I have a hard time regarding figures from an AskMen.com poll as facts) that should cause a person to think twice about marriage. A commenter responds:

Youth is a time of selfishness and immaturity, when the world revolves around you, and you think that’s the way it should be. But as you grow older, you realize that there is more to life than an endless party, more to life than even living for fun—that happiness too vigorously pursued doesn’t lead to happiness at all.

@Marriage Facts and Trivia: Men, Women and Surveys – Newsweek

Men are sometimes portrayed in the media as buffoons or oafs. People are prone to say that such portrayals are harmless and men should just get a sense of humor. Read the rest of this entry »

A social critic argues that divorce poses no threat to the institution of marriage @TheAtlantic.com :: Magazine :: Divorce and the Family in America

Dr. Rob runs down some of the reasons why marriages fail and why therapy leads to better outcomes even if the outcome is still divorce. @Why Marriages Fail « Shrink Talk

This is mostly unconscious on the part of the men; they don’t necessarily know that they do everything they do in order to get laid. They consciously think that they want to attain the highest political office in the state or in the country; they want to become a successful businessman and make more money than anyone else; they want to practice and play hard so that they can become the best in their sport; they want to make America laugh so that they become the most successful entertainer. Men want to do these things because they are evolutionarily designed to compete and achieve, and, when they do, women seek them out as sexual partners. @Why Are We Surprised? | Psychology Today

Dr. Rob writes about why women are interested in Tucker Max.

At many levels women seek what they want in their own kids…

Read it at @Why You Want to Have Sex with Tucker Max « Shrink Talk.

Also try @Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature | Psychology Today.

The Western World has quietly become a civilization that undervalues men and overvalues women, where the state forcibly transfers resources from men to women creating various perverse incentives for otherwise good women to conduct great evil against men and children, and where male nature is vilified but female nature is celebrated.  This is unfair to both genders, and is a recipe for a rapid civilizational decline and displacement, the costs of which will ultimately be borne by a subsequent generation of innocent women, rather than men, as soon as 2020.  @The Futurist: The Misandry Bubble

Dr. Helen writes:

Goodreau has it all wrong. It is not that men are “man-children.” They are just grown-up enough to know that a controlling woman like Goodreau does not a good wife make.

@Marriage, The Last Frontier – Forbes.com

“Being a woman is an art in which American women could learn much from their Chinese sisters.”  From 1942 @The Milwaukee Journal – Google News Archive Search.

Men seen as likely to be violent towards their wives could be forced to wear an electronic tag under a law being debated by the French parliament. @BBC News – Violent French husbands ‘may be tagged’