Renowned Nashville Psychiatrist Dr. Laura D'Angelo Releases Guys Are Schmucks!": By Phil Sweetland Country music and Radio contributor, The New York Times
A Woman's Guide to Surviving & Enjoying Men
Nashville, TN (PRWEB) April 26, 2005 -- First there was the smash TV show Sex and The City. That classic shows run has ended, so make way for Dr. Laura dAngelos brand-new Guys Are Schmucks!": A Womans Guide to Surviving . . . & Enjoying Men (Cold Tree Press, $12.95), a little giant of a book in which the men themselves divulge the schmucky side of their lives," and thus give women for the first time a primer on how to understand, cope with, and enjoy men -- even if theyre schmucks.
Dr. dAngelo studied at Barnard College and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine before serving on the faculty of both the Oregon Health Sciences University and Vanderbilt University. She wrote Guys Are Schmucks!" with Bob Richardson, a fellow Nashvillian who is a former screenwriter at Paramount Studios and head of TV Production for the Leo Burnett Agency.
Laura, all guys are schmucks. If you learn to accept that, youll do fine." That was the surprising advice a male colleague gave Dr. Laura when she was recently divorced after 20 years of marriage and, at age 47, began dating again. The concept triggered her analytical side, so Dr. Laura interviewed 28 men ranging from ages 17 to 85 to see if it was true. As she reveals in this 76-page book, the guys she interviewed agreed that most men are indeed schmucks, which Websters defines as a foolish or contemptible person."
She begins with boys childhoods, in which she states that breaking rules and pushing limits are `highs for a guy." As teens, Dr. Laura writes that men learn that the very behaviors that horrify women are the very same behaviors that define masculinity to a guy." When they begin dating, men learn that the fun was in the challenge, and the challenge was in the hunt," and to stay in control, men lie." In marriage, one man told her to love us for who we are, and do not perceive us for who you want us to be." The book discusses infidelity, male bonding, and sex. All men like oral sex," she was told, because its no effort." A 54-year-old man said, Pleasing the female is not part of a boys training." The book concludes with three chapters of real-world advice for women.
Dr. Al Lewy said, you will be constantly entertained by this collection of mens hidden sexual and romantic encounters." Writer Katie Sulkowski said, ladies, this book is not for the faint of heart. Its a pig-headed, honest picture of what makes men tick."
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