Sex index

Author: Wen Qing
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: Three white-collar women have smooth careers but face troubles in love, entangled with various men around them, depicting a series of modern urban love dramas filled with humorous and laughable situations, sparking diverse emotional sparks. The unavoidable issues in life—cohabitation, pregnancy before marriage, one-night stands, third parties, virginity complexes, the role of beauty in love, the proportion of sex in marriage, and more—constitute important indicators in their emotional lives. This novel, centered on exploring sex and emotion, defies traditional morality and delves into the real-life struggles of urban modern women. It not only reflects their humor and wit in the face of awkwardness and helplessness but also reveals the rich philosophical truths of life. Do men and women have true friendships? Trying to understand what men think by talking to their girlfriends is like asking a blind person to describe an elephant—no correct answers can be obtained. He Xiao Lei realized that the only way to understand men is to seek answers from them. Reading books written by men seemed like a shortcut. However, after reading a few, she recalled the men's books she had previously read and became even more confused. Most books written by men focus on women—writing about women, writing from a woman's perspective, writing about the women in their imaginations, or writing about the ideal women in their minds. They are either terribly manipulative foxes or goddesses embodying all human virtues, rarely featuring ordinary and authentic women like herself. The men who write these books do not explain themselves, clarify themselves, or discuss themselves. Even when they do, they surround themselves with dazzling emotional halos or drape themselves in layers of moral cloaks, making it impossible to see their true selves. The clever He Xiao Lei finally understood: just like women, men see the other gender as a mystery. They are also trying to solve the puzzle of women, but they do not explain themselves. Therefore, reading books written by men offers no benefit in understanding men. Since neither party truly understands the other, how can there be a destined couple meant to spend their lives together?
Other books seem to attempt to answer this question, such as "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus," "Your Personality and Destiny," and books like "Decoding Women" and "Decoding Men," which also sell well. As He Xiao Lei reads, she applies the theories to every person around her...