Last Friday, I was in New York for a Trojan Condoms roundtable conference. I threw around the term "focus group" to describe the "conference," but why be technical? The point of the discussion was to share ideas with other journalists and editors and, most importantly, with Dr. Drew Pinsky. For anyone trying desperately to place him, think intelligent co-host of MTV's "Loveline." He's the type of TV personality who, once you learn who he is, seems to be on every channel -- like Mo Rocca or Ben Stein. We took about four hours analyzing many aspects of sex in college. We devoted at least an hour to discussing the hookup culture with the greatest insight being the role alcohol plays in a hookup -- men drink to "prepare for the hookup" while women drink to "tolerate the hookup." After the conference, I interviewed Dr. Drew:
What question do you wish someone would ask you? Or what is something you want people to know?
I've never felt there was a deficit of questions. I wish people could be more honest with themselves -- this is a problem wherever I go. When I train medical students now, I tell them not to listen to patients because whatever they say is the opposite and distorted. I wish people would trust their instincts.
What is the most bizarre method anyone ever tried as a contraceptive?
My "potato story?" This is a story that circulated around the medical schools and hospitals that a woman came in with this horrible smell, and when they put her up in the stirrups, they found a vine, a small vine, coming out of her. And they discovered a potato had been put intravaginally -- because she was taught that was a way to achieve contraception.
Can men and women ever just be friends?
Look around. Look at things very honestly and clearly. Think about you and a friend -- usually there is some way you're attracted to that person. When they don't respond in a way that goes further, then you become friends. Women again are typically more flexible with that. Men tend to harbor plans and are waiting for their moment.
What if it is the man who is not interested?
Then women tend to settle. They're more accepting, in my experience.
I always thought women were more scheming
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