What Men Don't Want Women to Know: The Secrets, the Lies, the Unspoken Truth

The authors, who, the publisher reveals, work in the motion-picture industry, have assumed pseudonyms for this work, and readers will quickly understand why. This is their chief message: ""The only reason your man is with you is because at this moment... he... believes... he simply can't do any better."" Their basic conviction, quoting from Wilhelm Reich, is that the male of the species is a sexual animal who seeks ""complete and repeated genital gratification."" They see him as a gun, either loaded or unloaded according to whether he is hoping to have an orgasm or has just had one; women, they maintain, can trust a man in the latter state, but otherwise they cannot. The authors point out that the real danger zones for a woman are her husband's office, his ""business trips"" and bachelor parties, about which he can be expected to deny every occurrence if questioned. After presenting a test for fidelity, Smith and Doe offer a few words of advice for women on winning the battle of the sexes. Females who find the content equally frivolous might recall that many a true word is spoken in jest. Yet the generalizations are so sweeping and exaggerated here as to lead many readers to believe that the authors are talking only about themselves. (July)