Time Orientation and Suitable Romantic Pairings
I
recently had a girl invite me to watch Sex and the
City with her. She'd
newly discovered the television show after never having really watched
it
before, and was suddenly addicted.
"Ugh," I said. "No thanks. But knock yourself out."
"Come on, please!" she protested. "It's so much fun!"
"Fun for women," I replied. "Men do not enjoy Sex and the City."
"That's not true!" she said. "It's a great show for men AND women!"
"It's a bunch of women who have no idea what they want doing the same things over and over again, never able to realize they're trapped in a perpetual loop of meaningless emotion–chasing," I responded. "There's little self–discovery, and loads of gossip, which is of course quite interesting to women, but like nails on a chalkboard to men."
She started watching an episode by herself, and soon called out to me, "You're right, I can see why women really like this and men don't!"
But I wanted to think about it some more. Why do women like that show so much, and why don't men? Certainly, there are exceptions – women who think it's trite, and men who think it's wonderful – but they're not the norm.
What I realized was that it's part gossip – women use gossip to stay informed on who's a desirable mate, who's an available mate, and who isn't – which is pretty useless to men but pretty vital to women – but it's also about time orientation... a little thing most people don't think much about, but that has huge implications for their dating lives and relationships.


We've all seen him. The sweaty, leering dance floor guy
who circles,
stares and ultimately ends up herding girls towards guys who have the
deftness to come in and 'save' them.


This is Part I of a 2-part series on dating younger women. In Part I, we'll be focused on social factors that have changed and why there's so much pushback against older men dating younger women in the West. Part II will be our "how-to" - that is, how to date younger women as an older (or younger) man.
Sex
with friends.
In
yesterday's article on
A potent but under-discussed phenomenon in the fields of socializing and seduction is that of
We often
mention on this site that “