he accused me of portraying sex as a fun thing that people happily went into when the urge took them without a care for that dreaded sexual dampener- e rectal failure. Was he a victim?  I asked, expecting a profuse denial.  “Yes, I am, and it’s no thanks to an ex-girlfriend who laughed derisively when I tried to make love to her and failed”. Would he like to talk about it?  You bet”, he said.  I’ll do better than that. I’ll let you have my grouse about you women and your heartless ways, in black and white!”. He was true to his words too as he personally brought his write-up to my office. Here is an excerpt from his heart-wrenching experience:

A writer once observed that “some of the virtues needed for a happy marriage such as enthusiasm, loyalty, courtesy, and patience, have become so platitudinous that they fade into the background noise of the modern world; yet unacknowledged, their presence or absence shapes the outcome of every relationship. I get more and more alarmed as I listen to young men to talk about their girlfriends with a lot of cynicism. According to those young men, girls of today are supposed to be callous and so materialistic that they drop rich men friends for richer ones without batting an eyelid.