Movies
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
— Mitch ‧ City Slickers
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This is a glib generalization about the sexes: one side wants an emotional motive, the other only needs somewhere convenient. It's a jokey stereotype rather than a fact, built on the contrast between reasons and locations, and it works through blunt, tidy symmetry.
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