Men Fake Foreplay ... And Other Lies That Are True - Hardcover

Dugan, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594860742 ISBN 13: 9781594860744

Publisher: Rodale Books, 2004

Synopsis

Emmy® Award winning writer and Tonight Show comedian Mike Dugan's Men Fake Foreplay is a funny and engaging look at the trials and errors encountered on the road to becoming a man in a "boys will be boys" world.

The title glibly answers the question, "Why do women fake orgasm?" But Dugan suggests foreplay is much more than what a man does before intercourse. What begins as a simple attempt to "figure women out" quickly shifts into a deeply considered exploration of the male psyche and the influences that shape a man's character.

The result is a highly entertaining look at men's experiences with trust, responsibility, sex, intimacy, commitment, feelings, masculinity, street-corner sex education, role models, break ups, bubble baths, dating, fantasizing, diamond buying, lying, cheating, blaming, shaming, crying, dancing, and, especially, their relationships with women.

It's also likely you'll be taken by surprise more than once. Ultimately what Dugan discovers in this wise, witty, and thought-provoking book is that, "I didn't have to figure out women to be happy. It was never about finding the right woman. It was about becoming the right man."

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About the Author

Mike Dugan has written for many television shows and has performed stand-up extensively at comedy clubs, colleges, corporate events, and on television. He has toured his stand-up comedy and performed the stage version of Men Fake Foreplay in America, London, Amsterdam, Scotland, and Paris. He lives in Princeton, NJ, where he is daddy to three little girls.

For more information, please visit menfakeforeplay.com.

Reviews

Based on Dugan's comedy performance of the same name, this quick little look at men's role in the battle of the sexes actually offers more than funny vignettes and witty one-liners. After admitting his emotional shortcomings ("I don't have a lot of relationship skills because all of my training is in casual sex") and his domestic failures ("I've done my laundry in shampoo"), Dugan takes on such issues as communication and commitment in a tone that is both friendly and frank ("I believe that owning a dick entitles me to nothing but a responsibility to govern it"). Going along his observational comedy way, he takes potshots at what he sees as the hypocrisies of Howard Stern and relationship guru John Gray and bemoans the fact that some teenage boys get their sexual education from pornography because "adult males have abdicated their responsibility to represent alternatives." A comic on stage and a moralist at heart, Dugan wants to help men "to somehow reconcile a naturally unwieldy sex drive with a sense of responsibility to those we love." The result is an enjoyable effort that harks back to the Golden Rule: "the measure of a man will be found in how he treats others."
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Edition details

• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594860742
• ISBN 13: 9781594860744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 118