08 Sep 2009, Posted by jay rusovich , 0 Comments

If female psychology made any sense to me I ‘d find something else to do.
“Why Women Have Sex,” by University of Texas Psychology professors, Cindy Meston and David Buss, was recently covered on Dailymail.co.uk. and then picked up by the balance of the world, if only because people are tired of hearing about healthcare.
Good call on the part of the authors, by the way.
If you want to sell a book in the “non-fiction” category, just make up something that’ll stir up the gender wars and you’ll sell enough books to satisfy any publisher these days, regardless of it’s merits.
Anyway, the underlying thesis of this book is that romance and passion are at the bottom of the list when it comes to reasons women have sex.
Instead, they use the “call-girl” model, which turns women into hookers and men into Neanderthals who pass out cash and gifts in exchange for the satisfaction of primitive urges over which they have no control.
I’m not saying this isn’t true, but still.
With this set-up in mind, one woman admitted to having sex just so her husband would put the trash out. Another said she did it for “God.”
According to the authors, 84 per cent admitted to having sex just to ensure a quiet life or to bargain for household chores.
Other excuses given included:
1] To relieve boredom
2] It’s easier than fighting
3] Gives them something to do [see #1]
4] Provides some relief from stress or migraines
5] Sympathy [one woman admitted to having sex with a man because she felt sorry for him]
6] Yields financial or material rewards
7] Usually leads to nice dinners
8] It can be fun
9] Romance
10] Love
And if this wasn’t bad enough, the professors concluded that most women don’t find men sexually attractive at all.
Nice. I’m buying 20 copies. See how marketing works?
Based on personal experience, I’d say that sex for women is about communication and understatement. For men it’s about primal urges followed by what often appears to be aggravated assault.
Let me set this up another way:
Women can have sex anytime they want. So after a while the whole thing kind of loses it luster. They become jaded and bored. There’s no challenge. And besides, it’s monotonous listening to the same song and dance from men. So women take it to the next level, in order to maintain at least a modicum of interest in it.
Sex must blur the lines between urge and emotion to remain interesting, just like some downer junkies speed ball their heroine with methamphetamine just to see what happens.
How the hell else is it supposed to produce endorphins? Hell, if I knew that no matter what I did I could get laid, I’d use it to get somebody to take the trash out or to buy me a goddamned Ferrari.
I might even use it to shut somebody up, which is virtually impossible when women get on a roll.
Come to think of it, there isn’t much I wouldn’t use it for.
Since women apparently aren’t attracted to men anyway, what the hell difference does it make? A man can never quantify their disinterest in sex for obvious reasons, nor can they do anything about their desire to have it.
So we’re back to the “call girl” thing; not to mention female objectification, Live Dolls, male superficiality, Darwin and people like Mickey Rourke [and his 24 year old supermodel girlfriend], who’s up next.