Imagine the scen­ario: a woman, wearing a skirt and no panties, climbs a ladder. A man below enjoys a clear view of her genitals. Imagine now that the genders are reversed: my point is that a woman is unlikely to appre­ciate the view in the same way that a man does.

Of course, someone will always disagree. A man said: “It depends from woman to woman, because if they want a quickie they like to take a look at your naked­ness. “Drop your pants” was an order I got from a girl­friend once in Bris­bane who was a Buddhist, when she saw the size of me she stripped and said ‘try to satisfy me — you are very big’ and I did. Second time I got that order was before I married in Tagb­il­aran. My now wife laid down and said: ”Let’s see how big you are — the bigger the better”, that was before we got married and she went mad for me.”

Men must think that women were born yesterday. Of course a sexu­ally exper­i­enced woman appre­ci­ates the turn-on for a man if she emulates male sexual reac­tions. It is also a fact that many women fake orgasm.

“It is diffi­cult for most males to compre­hend that females are not aroused by seeing male genitalia. Some males never come to compre­hend this.” (p657 Sexual beha­vior in the human female — 1953)

Women can enjoy many aspects of phys­ical intimacy with a lover but we are not auto­mat­ic­ally aroused, the way men are, because our bodies are not full of the sex hormone, testosterone. Equally, we don’t get a hard-on (clit­oral erec­tion) by looking at male nudity: even the body and genitals of our partner. Other­wise women would pay for sex and the sight of the male body more than they do. No doubt there are women who pay for a male lap– or pole-dancer but, I think we all know, most would not.

If we are to accept the facts of female sexu­ality, we need to leave the sexual fantasy and look around the real world. Men may be able to imagine that sexu­ally attractive young women are always on the brink of orgasm. But what about other women?

Do we think that a stun­ning man enjoys sex more or is more sexu­ally driven than an ugly man? No. Even if a man is middle-aged, ugly, pigeon-chested or has a pot-belly, we know that he is just as likely to masturbate or pay for sex as the next guy. Simil­arly we know that, regard­less of her looks, very few hetero­sexual women masturbate and almost none pay for sex.

Logic tells us that hetero­sexual women’s sexu­ality is the same whatever the age or attract­ive­ness of the woman. The rest is just part of the sexual game that men fall for. After all, men and women play for different stakes — who pays the bill, for example?

Some people believe the sexual fantasy regard­less of the evid­ence: “I must shake my head in wonder as to what women you have spent time with (or possibly they are VERY, very, young women who have not yet discovered their own sexu­ality). An older woman, say 30 to 55, is easily aroused. A well built man on a beach can abso­lutely stim­u­late a woman without her knowing him. Women are quite willing to ‘act like a whore’ in the bedroom and enjoy it, and as well they should, to the fullest.”

Women who take a pro-active sexual role are described as acting ‘like a whore’ precisely because not every woman behaves in this way. Few hetero­sexual men are paid for sex because men tend to be enthu­si­astic about sex whatever the circumstances.

Women are more concerned about commit­ment and trust than about orgasm. Presum­ably this is why is it so often suggested that women’s sexual arousal depends on her rela­tion­ship with a lover or on the love-making skills of a partic­ular lover.

Men have a much stronger sex drive than women so they want sex regard­less of whether they are in a rela­tion­ship. Men can enjoy sex with any attractive woman, even a pros­ti­tute. Also for many men, the only way they can enjoy the delights of oral sex, for example, is by paying because most wives and girl­friends are not willing to engage on such expli­citly sexual activities.