You Know What’s Crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy!
Women and sex-talk! That’s crazy!
Now I am no expert. Not on sex or talk or women.
So this is mostly just conjecture on my part, but I was reading about a PENN STATE STUDY that blows the myth of sex talk to hell and back.
Eva Lefkowitz, assistant professor of human development and family studies at Penn State, blows apart the age old stereotype that all men sport a raging woody straight out of a Porky’s movie.
Lefkowitz conducted her study over three months among 124 women and 81 men between the ages of 18 to 25. She focused on how the subjects communicated with their same-sex friends. According to the report: When it comes to sex, women talk too much with each other while men talk about sex with one another just enough, which is to say, hardly at all.
What she uncovered is a SEX IN THE CITY mentality among the fairer sex. The researcher discovered a loquacious, sexually conscious gender that was more Samantha-like, than anyone had ever known.
This seems to go against conventional wisdom and the imagery presented on tv.
I remember watching abc after school specials where a bunch of teenage boys hovering around their gym lockers. The cool guy with the Scott Baio hair cut and glistening with perspiration is dishing dirt on the girl he has recently had romantic relations with. The guys look like Hyenas poised on a cliff ready to pounce on his every word.
Cut to the poor girl who is despondent, sitting on the bleachers. She is all alone, crying, face buried in hands. She has no one to talk to and suicide is the only option.
OH NO JENNY DON’T JUMP.
SPLATTTT!
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Not having spent much time talking with girls about sex, or much of anything else, I have to take the professor’s word on all this.
I can tell you that the only friends I have who like to reveal every little detail of their relationships are my “metro-sexual” friends.
NOT THAT THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
These are the guys who spike their hair with scented jell and then stand it at a precise angle using a protractor. These guys iron their shirts so that it is so crisp and clean you half way expect the maid to leave a mint on the collar. These guys manscape the carpet to match the drapes like it’s a full time job. These guys like to gossip about sex like, well, I guess according to the study, like women.
These guys can describe a sexual liaison with stunning detail, like a Jackie Collins novel leaping from the page. I’m lucky if I can find my car keys on the way home.
The study indicates women talk more frequently than men about sexual matters including sexual behavior, sexual feelings, dating and romantic relationships, “making out,” the dangers of sex, abstinence, how attractive members of the other sex were, how attractive they themselves were, date rape and contraception.
Men grunt more and take out the trash better. We change oil and tuck in our shirts if you make us. If you want to talk about that, pull up a bar stool, I’ll be the guy the drinking a beer and looking for my keys.
And that is crazy!