Sex on Demand?

I am totally playing into my friend's hands by doing this, I know, but I just couldn't resist...So if he rolls of his chair laughing at my predictability, so be it! I had to blog about it...when he sent this to me, I was all but spluttering in indignation..as he expected me to...just can't believe this - take a look :

"NEW YORK: A hot meal on the table, a dab of fresh lipstick and sex on demand: such are the duties of a modern wife as described in a runaway bestseller that is infuriating the feminist lobby across America.

A book that panders to a distinctly retro look on marriage has caught the fancy of millions of men in the US. "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands" , a distinctly retro look at the chemistry of marriage, has sold 750,000 copies in America since publication in January, and is set to reach British bookshelves this autumn.

Its author, Dr Laura Schlessinger, a controversial radio host, prompts angry mutterings among the politically correct, but her forthright views on just who in a marriage should pick up the dirty underpants are winning over the American mainstream.

None of this should be any surprise to the 15 million fans – many of them appreciative men – who regularly listen to Schlessinger’s radio show. Women who whine on air about their sorry lot are given short shrift.

Change your ways or you will be dumped, she admonishes them. At the opening of her book, Schlessinger cites approvingly a caller named Vince. "As a man, I can tell you our needs are simple," he declared. "We want to be fed, we want our kids to be mothered and we want lovin'."

Schlessinger’s views are predictably robust and direct. She believes wives should put their husbands first in a marriage and not use their children as an all-too-common excuse for ignoring them. The refrain "I’m too tired for sex" denotes a lack of consideration and respect.

Career women suffer from "hurried woman syndrome", she argues, depriving themselves and their families of the pleasures of home life. If women must work, they should arrange their hours to suit the family. She has one son, now aged 18. "I walked the talk. I always got up at 5 am to write."

Dr Laura is so reviled by the chattering classes that her book of supposed home truths has barely been reviewed in the press. She has been cold-shouldered by many writers for being an antediluvian anti-feminist and gay basher.

Sunday Times, London"

My objections to this dumb woman's book need not be expanded on, coz it's pretty clear why I don't think much of her book or her views (she needs to be sent back to the cave-man age and forced to stay there when she realises that she has put her foot in her mouth...and I'm being kind)...but one thing did come into my mind as I read this the other day. Obviously the 1st sentence describes the "ideal woman" for many men (I say many coz I'm sure there are men who do not want this doormat of a bimbo, that's been described ) You can see I've put 1 phrase in Bold...

"sex on demand"

Pray explain to me what's so gratifying about getting sex on "demand"? Hell when I am married, in love with a guy, I'd want him just as much as he wants me, if not more! What can possibly be so exciting about having to "demand" sex...shouldn't it be something that's a result of mutual combustion (to use a rather sad analogy if I may) and chemistry? Something that occurs as a result of desire on both sides, rather than some kind of activity remote controlled by the man? Reason away all you want, but I don't think a man can actually prefer an unthinking doormat to a woman who makes him feel alive!