She talks about women having relationships with younger men like it’s a new trend, and every other chapter she coins a different initialism or phrase: “Cubs” or “cubbing” is dating younger men “MAM” is middle-aged madness, “MNB” (My new boyfriend) is the apparent phenomenon of an older woman finding a new partner. It’s disconcerting that a woman who was once regarded as a kind of guru to women’s sex lives should sound so out of touch. Throughout the book, which has been billed as a novel by Bushnell but a “memoir” by her publicist, you hope she will reach the conclusion that being single is not the worst thing in the world. It’s a poisonous trope that should have died in the Nineties, along with many others that Bushnell perpetuates, such as the notion that a woman is not “complete” if she is not married and with children. The main problem is that Bushnell still writes with the conviction that men are from Mars and women are from Venus – as though the opposite sex are an alien species, and young people equally so.
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