"It's like who wants to properly marinate and cook a steak with roasted baby potatoes slathered in olive oil, coarse salt and rosemary, and thinly sliced, delicately steamed, honey-seasoned root vegetables all served on a properly set table with a good wine, when you can hit McDonalds on the way home and have a burger while you watch TV?"

While sometimes it is fine, if you just don't have the energy, to do the brainless MickyD TV route. But how much better the food tastes when you prepare it together, and letting the smells wett your taste buds, you begin to salivate with anticipation . . . .

Life is meant to be savoured and enjoyed and if all there was was McDonalds and American Idol, I'd probably lose some interest in eating and do more reading.

Hmmm . . . so gold diggers are not really after the money - just the better orgasms?

Maybe there is some connection between men driving expensive cars and the women they attract. Here all along, I thought men using their cars to attract women were silly and probably selfish lovers - I got it all wrong!

Oh! All those wonderful opportunities are now lost - all those young men and their yellow corvettes.

Seriously - money has had zero ZERO effect on whether I enjoyed the sex or not. What has effected it was doing something together, having fun, finding reason to laugh. I've enjoyed and had more fun sex after going on a hike and talking about whether an atheist can still embrace the concept of heavan and hell than any paid for dinner at a posh restaurant. Of course, if the conversation at that restaurant was interesting and engaging and I felt the man was really interested in "me", then good sex usually followed - even if the restaurant was MickyDees.

I don't buy the money-orgasm connection any more than the 50's housewife was more sexually satisfied. Too many variables not accounted for. Perhaps having money and hence station and power does more for the man? Emboldening him during sex to display mastery?

I don't really think women think masturbation is as good or better than sex with a partner. It might be easier to obtain an orgasm masterbating, and it may be easier than dealing with an unsatisfying partner, this is what women are saying.

It would be GREAT if more men would stimulate the clitoris to orgasm before or during sex. Or be great if we could acceptable do did that during sex. It would actually be a better feel for a man if they would allow this to happen - or facilitate it. Things swell and get tight, ya know.

But it just doesn't happen. And most women are not comfortable / not knowledgeable / or so entrenched in giving the man pleasure that they don't bring it up or demand it be part of sex. And frankly, it can be a mood killer - "No, Hon. I know Playboy says to do it this way, but that is not what works for me. Do it my way."

Masturbation is a release - for men or women. The sensualness of touch and being touched that is also part of sex, as is experiencing the excitement in your partner - and no matter how good your imagination is - the real thing is best.

Sometimes I wish men could get the information (from other men, women, Playboy, porn) that women need their clitoris rubbed just like they want their penis rubbed. And there is a right way and a wrong way and individual tastes may differ.

Afterall - how many men can orgasm with out having any friction on their penis? (Aside from a 15 year old who sees a bit of cleavage on the Art Teacher.)

Replace "sex" with "penetration"

It is all sex.