Sex and Men
I’m shootin’ the breeze with a coupla older guys I see in the course of my weekly rounds and don’t they start talkin’ about women:“So here’s the deal,” says one. “Women in their 20s and 30s will sleep with you on the fourth or fifth date.”“That’s true!” says the other, “but with women in their 40s and 50s it's a WHOLE different thing.”“Right. Women in their 40s and 50s if they'll see you at all - bang! - it's right to bed on the very first date!”“Plus! They're very aggressive!" says the one. "They're always slidin' phone numbers across the bar to guys.”“I had a woman do that with me just last night!” says the other.Meanwhile here's me in my highly married state and what do I know? My last date took place when Three Dog Night was the hot new band.So I ask a question:“Why do you suppose that is?”“Why? Because the younger ones are still playin’ the game. And the older gals are DONE with all that crap,” says the one.“They’re grownups” says the other. “If they see something they want, they go after it.”“Exactly,” says the first. And suddenly I feel like Margaret Mead, only not short with the weird hair of course - that's old Maggie at the top there - but in the sense that she was an anthropologist. Were these guys reporting an actual phenomenon or was this just a kind of performance on their part, some sort of joke like God made in designing baboon bottoms? I do seem to remember hearing that the Samoans who Mead wrote about later said they made up half the stuff they told her just for laughs and maybe these guys were doing that too.Who knows? I’m sure no expert - except I do know that however ‘willing’ these older gals may be, on that deep, deep level that not even speech can’t touch men are hard-wired to want to do one thing and that is to pass on their DNA - which leaves our 40- and 50- year-olds either singin' the blues or sighin' with relief you tell me.And speaking of singing can we ever tire of this? Ann Renfroe's take-off on Beyoncé's All the Single Ladies?[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaruNs_7okY]
