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Evolutionary psychologists believe that differences in optimal mating strategies between men and women lead to widespread differences in behavior. These theories have been widely popularized and have a huge impact on folk psychology.
The most cited difference is the energy investment in growing an immature ovum to a baby. This is said to explain, for example, why women are choosier with their sexual partners.
Another difference that might be far more deeply ingrained in our culture, is the reproductive window: babies are optimally produced by young women. This is said to explain, for example, why almost all heterosexual men are ephebophiles.
My entire life plan relies on the fact that I can continue to date women I find attractive: greater than 50% of such women are younger than me at any future point in time. But the NY Times has reviewed a number of studies that find a correlation between father age and child malfunction. The article briefly considers the question: what if these science facts become integrated into our culture and the reproductive window is applied to men?
Don
27 Apr 09 at 2:02 pm
In the spirit of sexual realism*: Fleshbot just reviewed Soderbergh’s new joint (NSFW), The Girlfriend Experience. As-of this writing IMDB is giving it a nine-point-oh, impressive by any measure and staggering for a non-porn film carried by a porn star.
Maybe Sasha Grey will be the first person to successfully cross the firewall separating the film industries in Hollywood and The Valley.
Click through the polka-hot poster for the (SFW) trailer:
* The movie’s other tagline is “love is more expensive than sex” — Res ipsa loquitur, amirite?
Jack
28 Apr 09 at 2:03 am
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28 Apr 09 at 2:12 pm
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AlexJack:How the hell did they get a film set in the economic downturn produced so quickly?
Jared
28 Apr 09 at 10:50 pm
He shot it in 2008, according to Wikipedia. How the fuck he did that and the mammoth-length Che — four and a half hours! — is beyond me. Looking at the dates he was probably shepherding Che through post-production and/or promotion while doing pre-production and/or principal photography on GFE.
So, to answer your question: Beats me. Soderbergh must be some kind of sick workaholic multitasker.
Then again, he is the Sex, Lies, and Videotape dude. Maybe he’s just really good at Indie development — GFE is only 77 minutes, and looks pretty vérité. Maybe he did it really low-key to unwind from Che? Success is when you can’t tell the difference between work and play.
Theaters must hate him. Two movies, neither of which fits into the standard 120 minute time slot. Maybe he’s consciously saying to the theaters, “Movies: ur doing it wrong.”
Jack
28 Apr 09 at 10:57 pm