Mickey Gladwell

The Mating Manifesto Mickey Gladwell

Love, sex, marriage, coupling, hooking up. Is it a game or a transaction? Under the old system, marriage and dating had implicit rules and clearly defined roles. When divorce wasn't an option for most women, they had to make the best of the situation. Social norms kept male indiscretion out of sight. Boys were boys but they were also gentlemen, fathers who came home for dinner, and husbands who grew old with their wives. Women were spouses, girlfriends or prostitutes. There were the nice girls and the other girls. By the nineties the lines began to blur. Now we are in no man's land with outdated assumptions and no new guidance. We are adrift in a sea of easy pleasure, an oasis of perversion, with a bitter sweet freedom that doesn't feel free. In a world of too much stuff and not enough love, here is a provocative book on mating.