DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES?

In men and women different parts of the brain are responsible for experiencing (sexual) pleasure. Whilst the whole male grey matter is engaged on the way to climaxing, most of the female encephalon must switch off before she can feel any arousal at all. It doesn't mean, of course, men get more out of sexual activity; it only means most women must learn to get as much as men do. To meet this tempting objective, they need to make their brains slow down with the exception of what is called the cerebellum which must remain good and ready for what's in store for its possessor. How unfair: what men owe to Nature and get effortlessly, women owe to themselves and a lot of strenuous exercise. However, before you start deploring this flagrant injustice, there's a pleasant surprise for you, ladies: what is so hard for you to get in bed is presented to you with interest in everyday life.

The cerebellum controls all the tediously repeatable activities people engage in. That is why we are so conveniently able to pursue certain activities absent-mindedly. Everyone must have experienced locking the door or turning the faucet off so automatically they weren't sure if they had done it. Double checking showed they had, of course. They were simply thinking about something more absorbing; the cerebellum was there for them to do the donkey work. Women perform hundreds of such little obligations on a daily basis. Cooking, cleaning, vacuuming, sweeping, washing-up: all this engages the painstaking cerebellum alone in the very same way sex does. Have you ever regarded chores as something pleasurable? Many women claim to feel relaxed or even contented while doing housework. No wonder, it seems to be a peculiar surrogate for sexual pleasure. Men, needing the whole brain active to get their satisfaction, get nothing measurable out of helping their partners in the house and maybe that's the reason they hardly ever do lend a hand. But maybe they would if they only knew something so ordinary and unsophisticated as chores was always there for their women, offering effortless satisfaction at no expense. I can't help it, I'm jealous.