Disclaimer first: I hate Esquire. It's been around longer than McCain, but it's definitely lost a lot of its charisma and smart writing. I only bought this month's issue because it's the first ever shoot done with a video camera. Which is completely, COMPLETELY revolutionary.
OK, now that I got that out of the way. DUDE! (And dudettes. Actually, especially my dudettes) There's this super charismatic and extremely intelligent article in this month's Esquire by Stephen Marche. Although published in a men's magazine, this is obviously for a female audience. It's titled "Where Have All the Loose Women Went?"
Basically, Marche evaluates today's women as being generally more successful and as a result, they demand less sex. Compared to successful women of the past who demands the opposite. He also writes this in the backdrop of the Liz Lemmons, Jenna Maroneys, Elaine Benes, and Whitney Ports.
Nutshell: awesome.
"Brilliant, funny, and powerful women are retreating from sex as never before, and if you don't believe it, take the curious case of Liz Lemon. The most complicated and intelligent woman in television comedy barely ever has sex. She doesn't sit on laps, either — "not a lap sitter," she tells one handsome date she brings home in the first season. (He turns out to be her cousin.) She admits to losing her virginity at twenty-five and accidentally reveals that she doesn't believe people can have intercourse standing up. Liz Lemon's low libido is one of 30 Rock's running gags, like the writers' obsession with junk food or Jack Donaghy's use of words like "upward-revenue-stream dynamics." When Jenna asks about sex with her beeper-salesman boyfriend, Liz replies, "Fast and only on Saturdays — it's perfect." That line is a dagger in the heart of every thinking heterosexual man in America, and for Liz and the like-minded career women in The Women, He's Just Not That Into You, Sandra Bullock's latest, The Proposal, or just about any other chick flick of late, it's become achingly clear that sex is usually the last thing on their minds.
How did this happen? A mere decade ago, Seinfeld's Elaine Benes was hilarious, smart, familiar with Russian novelists, an aggressive and demanding professional, and a woman who fooled around a lot..." continued HERE
