A Man's Worst Nightmare
November, 2000
Lock up your wives and girlfriends, or at least keep them out of the bookstores. A gaggle of self-help authors are telling women that refusing sex will lead to happier and healthier lives.In A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, recent college grad Wendy Shalit instructs women to put away their sexy clothes. This, she claims, helps prevent eating disorders, sexual harassment and rape. To support her hypothesis that females of the species are naturally modest, she notes how women alwa...
