These women, all of whom are blessed with good looks, good jobs, and a good education are repeatedly dumped by Neanderthal men who bed them but don't wed them. If Erica Jong fantasized a zipless sexuality, these sexy ladies in the city find most men afflicted with a restless and promiscuous zipper disease. What's truly amazing is how lacking in sensuality their sexual trysts are. Romance occurs between the kiss over the glass of wine in a bar to the race home to see who can get their clothes off first. Foreplay is limited to putting the key in the door.
Guilt is gone, but so is the enduring and pleasurable afterglow.
Like lots of other things, such pleasure is faked. Helen Gurley Brown, age 78, advises women of a certain age to undress in the dark to maintain maximum seductiveness. One of them, determined to seduce an elderly rich man, is excited until she sees his flabby tush. In our health-conscious culture a shapely man has become as important as sex and money. If women are lonely and angry over the way the sexual revolution has failed them, some of them compensate in new ways.