5 Facts About Men

From Men, Love & Sex: The Complete User's Guide for Women by David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker.

• Premature enunciation ruins the mood. "You know how you don't like it when he skips the foreplay and goes right to the sex? When you talk about the status of a relationship too early, it's like skipping the foreplay of pursuit and going right to the private parts of commitment."

• There's plenty of drool to go around. "Some women, when we see them, automatically become filed in our all-time fantasy file.....But here's the thing. We love you. We separate the other women in our lives from you, the was we separate Anderson Cooper from Jon Stewart. One we take seriously, The other's on CNN.

• A little pat on the butt goes a long way. "Less than one in four men say the regularly receive positive reinforcement from the women in their lives, but guys want that even more than they want the Saturday digital football package. Just because we have an interior more heavily vaulted than a Brinks truck doesn't mean that you can't crack us."

• It is all about you. "For many of us, our greatest sexual experiences have less to do with satisfying our bodies than the do with satisfying yours - and our egos. While we want you to astound us with your fingers and lips, we also stake our sexual identity on the fact (hope?) that we can do the same for you."

• Let us prey. But be ready to play. "Men like to think of themselves as the hunters, but we don't want to be hunting possum. We'd rather feel like the hunt was between two creatures of equal sexual power. You have the ability to recharge us sexually - in the form of assertiveness, seduction, and, dare I say it, even a little nagging. Touch me here. Clothes off. Get on top of me. Again. That's the kind of ordering around no man will ever get tired of hearing."