Comedy, Sex, Tragedy, Sex, Sex, Sex...Love?

While watching "The Graduate," I remember jotting down a few lines and one of them was when Mrs. Robinson manipulates Ben into having sex with her by calling him "inadequate."

Men do not want their masculinity to be challenged. They do not want women to take away their whole aura of creation. A man's wholeness ( at least in sex comedies) is based on his masculine ability to be a king in bed!

Tamar Jeffer McDonald writes, "The sex comedy pits woman against man in an elemental battle of wits, in which the goal of both is sex. Only the timing and legitimacy of this differs from gender to gender, with women wanting sex after, and men before or without, marriage" ( McDonald 38). I mean this might be comical when reading about or watching in a movie theatre, and we might all consider it to be predictable and cheesy, but isn't our real life based on this sex comedy genre? I mean most of you might be nodding right now. Women, from all your personal experiences along with those of your friends, doesn't the sex comedy contain characteristics similar to real life relationships? A woman dates a man. Man thinks woman is good looking. Woman digs the man. Man wants to hit a home run. Woman feels offended. Woman is horny. Woman needs to be pure. Man needs sex. Woman moves on. Man decides to settle, because it is "time."

Women dream about the idea of finding their one true love. Men come to terms with themselves and realize that if they don't hold on to one of those pretty girls that is really interested in him, he might be getting too old to play the field. Both men and women are constructed- by family and society- to grow up, be polite, find a job, look approachable, fall in love and produce offspring. Along this set of steps, men might only unconciously desire one of the above, and that is to have a child as well. I strongly believe that all men want to create something from their genes. The single difference amongst the only similarity between men and women is that women mature faster than men, therefore as women are ready for sex and children at a younger age, men are only ready for sex!

McDonald, Tamar Jeffers. Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre. London: Wallflower Press, 2007. Print.