Dennis Prager "Male-Female Hour"

Children Disrupting

2009-03-26T10:45:00.001-05:00

March 11
~ Children almost always have a disrupting influence on a marriage. How you cope with this disruption will shape the future of your relationship with your spouse.

Open Lines

2009-03-26T10:43:00.000-05:00

March 18
~Dennis opens up the lines for questions on the general subject of male female differences.
Issues raised include:

why do men objectify women;
is the Playboy culture to blame for why so many men aren't willing to commit to a woman;
how does a woman handle a man who makes her feel uncomfortable;
should husbands and wives romance their spouses after marriage.

Women Controlling Emotions

2009-03-26T10:41:00.000-05:00

March 25
~Girls and women have to learn to control their emotions just like boys and men have to learn to control their aggression and libido. Unfortunately, our feminized society has deemed that women don’t have this responsibility.

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2009-03-05T13:39:00.001-06:00

March 11
~Dennis has a long-standing theory: twenty-nine is a key age for women. Something happens around this age that makes a woman begin to question her life, the basic stuff – who am I, what are am doing with my life, and do I want a career or a home or both. Dennis has some theories as to why this is.

Public Humiliation

2009-02-27T12:50:00.000-06:00

Feb 25
~The public humiliation of a spouse is worse than an affair. It will destroy a marriage and set a very bad roll model for children. It will also alienate friends.

Conditional Love

2009-02-20T13:39:00.000-06:00

February 18
~You shouldn’t take your spouse’s love for granted. You should seek to earn it every day.

Recovering Trust

2009-02-12T14:31:00.000-06:00

Feb 11
~Should a one-time affair end a marriage? If a spouse had an affair and your marriage survived, how did you regain trust? If a spouse had an affair, and the marriage ended, do you now regret it?
~Callers weigh in with their experiences.

Kosher Sutra

2009-01-22T13:31:00.001-06:00

January 21
~Best-selling author Shmuley Boteach joins Dennis for this special hour to discuss his latest book: Kosher Sutra: Reigniting Desire and Restoring Passion for Life.

control yourself

2009-01-15T10:33:00.000-06:00

January 14
~Dennis deals with the issue of how men can control their sexual nature.

Women, Sex and the Mood

2009-01-09T09:00:00.002-06:00

Jan 7
~Dennis debates Megan Carpentier, blogger for the popular feminist site Jezebel.com and Jeff Fecke, (one, two)blogger for Alas and the Moderate Left. They both accuse Dennis of advocating marital rape in his two columns about women, sex and being in the mood at the end of 2008.
~See the two columns linked below for background...

Dennis writes... Part 2

2008-12-30T11:35:00.002-06:00

What if your husband woke up one day and announced that he was not in the mood to go to work? If this happened a few times a year, any wife would have sympathy for her hardworking husband. But what if this happened as often as many wives announce that they are not in the mood to have sex? Most women would gradually stop respecting and therefore eventually stop loving such a man.

When Women Aren’t in the Mood, Part 1

2008-12-29T10:30:00.001-06:00

Dec 24
~Dennis discusses his latest column (linked previously), When Women Aren’t in the Mood, Part 1. He also comments on the way certain Leftist bloggers have totally distorted his words for their own perverse agenda.

Dennis writes... Part 1

2008-12-23T18:10:00.001-06:00

When a Woman Isnt in the Mood: Part I

Given our preoccupation with politics and economics, it is easy to forget that for most of us micro issues still play a greater role in our lives. So here are some thoughts that, as heretical as they might sound, have been found extremely helpful, sometimes even marriage-saving, from listeners to my radio show, which features a male-female hour every week.

The subject is one of the most common problems that besets marriages: the wife who is not in the mood and the consequently frustrated and hurt husband......

How Do Your Resolve Religious Differences at the Holidays?

2008-12-18T10:36:00.001-06:00

Dec 17
~Who in your relationship is more religious?
~If there is a disparity of belief, how do you resolve it?
~Why marry someone of a different religious belief system?
~How do you avoid major child rearing issues if you have different world-views?

bonus audio!

2008-12-12T09:24:00.001-06:00

Dennis talks to Guy Garcia, award-winning journalist and former staff writer for Time Magazine. His new book is The Decline of Men: How the American Male is Tuning Out, Giving Up, and Flipping Off His Future.

Falling Out of the Tree

2008-12-11T09:41:00.006-06:00

Dec 10
~Dennis talks to Allison Armstrong, co-founder of Celebrating Men, Satisfying Women seminars, author of Keys to the Kingdom, and frequent Prager Show guest. They discuss behaviors and attitudes that stress relationships.
~Women's brains are wired to see what is missing. Men are wired to see what is there.
~Men need appreciation and recognition. It they don't get it, eventually they will snap, and look for it wherever he can find it.
~Men are better at focusing and thinking about the present. Women are better at multi-tasking and thinking about the future.
~When wives are happy, then husbands don't need to work as hard to make their wives happy.
~Every so often, wives should ask their husbands, "Is there anything that you need that you are not getting?"
~Wives withdrawal from a marriage when she stops respecting her husband, doesn't feel safe, or loses affinity.
~Every so often, husbands should ask their wives, "Is there anything that I do that causes you to lose affinity or respect?"

cha-ching

2008-12-10T11:22:00.001-06:00

Men Overspend to Attract Mates

Role Models

2008-12-04T11:51:00.000-06:00

Dec 3
~Do women need role models like men do? If so, what kind of role models?

Pet Names

2008-12-01T09:37:00.001-06:00

Nov 26
~Do you have a special name for your spouse? Why? And does it make you feel special? Or is just silly?

The biggest no-no!

2008-11-20T15:41:00.002-06:00

Nov 19
~What's the worse thing to do in a marriage? Callers give ideas.
~Infidelity
~Public humiliation
~No communication

Love in the Time of Darwinism

2008-11-17T08:57:00.002-06:00

Too many single young males (SYMs) were lingering in a hormonal limbo between adolescence and adulthood, shunning marriage and children, and whiling away their leisure hours with South Park reruns, marathon sessions of World of Warcraft, and Maxim lists of the ten best movie fart scenes. (read more)

UPDATE: A response: Why aren’t more men getting married? Why are any?

Wife versus Centerfold

2008-11-14T12:40:00.001-06:00

Nov 12
~Do men really compare their spouses to centerfolds, or models, or movie stars? Women are often inclined to think that they do? But they don’t.

differences....

2008-11-11T09:37:00.002-06:00

What Summers actually said is something like "male intelligence is inherently more variable than female intelligence," which is significantly and distinctly different than saying that "males are inherently more intelligent than females."

Females Dominate US Higher Education

articles

2008-10-31T14:56:00.002-05:00

Interesting articles about men:
first: The tendency of the nation’s schools to suppress boys’ natural way of seeing and doing things, brilliantly documented by Christina Hoff-Sommers in her 2001 book The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, is becoming increasingly evident in the culture.

second: The Apex Fallacy: An Interview with Dr. Helen Smith

third: an interesting blog....

Why Are Women More Liberal than Men?

2008-10-30T13:45:00.002-05:00

October 30
~Of course, there are many conservative women and liberal men, but as a general rule, men tend to be more conservative and women more liberal. Dennis asks why.
~Dennis speculates:
1. masculine thinking is macro- broad and general. (Ex: a car crash- what, where, how)
feminine thinking is more micro- individually focused. (Ex: a car crash- who)
Both ways of thinking are needed.
2. Compassion vs Standards.
Women are more compassion oriented,
vs Men who are more standards oriented.
~Caller says: women are more emotional, and that's why they sympathies with individual stories and problems. And since the woman is a nurturer who cares for others, they also want the State to take care of others.

Men Who Don’t Want Sex

2008-10-23T10:37:00.000-05:00

Oct 22
~Dennis has dealt with the issue of husbands wanting sexual relations and wives not; now the reverse situation is discussed – women who want sex and their husbands don’t.

Marriage: how much work should it take?

2008-10-16T08:54:00.005-05:00

~Oct 15
~Should marriage be hard work? Work, yes. But constant hard work? That’s debatable.
~Dennis asks, "If marriage is daily hard work, then why would you want to get married?"
~caller says, "the biggest test in a relationship is if you can go on vacation with them for 10 days and still enjoy being with them." The applies to all relationships, not just marriage.
~caller says, "Children are hard work, but they are worth it." Dennis say, "yes, children are worth the hard work it takes, but it's different. One reason to get married is to have a refuge from the world."
~At times, it will be hard work. But if it's a daily hard work, then it can become discouraging.

Date Your Spouse for the Rest of Your Life

2008-09-24T14:00:00.004-05:00

~Sept 24
~You worked hard to win over your spouse when you were dating. You should keep up the good work during your marriage. Love and respect must be continually earned.
~Why assume that your spouse will always love you? Your actions have a cause and effect.
~In marriage, you learn a lot about another person's issues, but you learn a lot about your own issues too.
~This can apply to friends too. Be kind to your friends, or you could lose them through attrition and time.
~Marriage is work. But it is not really hard work. It's work that pays off if you give it some effort.
~Treat your spouse as well as you treat strangers; with respect and kindness.
~A caller said that as a tennis player, she could tell whether the mix-doubles teams she played against were married or not, because 9 out of 10 times, if the couple was mean to each other, they were married to each other. And that is sad.

Does it matter? Singleness vs Marriage.

2008-09-17T14:33:00.002-05:00

Sept 17
~Dennis talks to Kim Calvert, editor and publisher of a new magazine celebrating the single life, Singular.
~Dennis argues that the ideal for society is marriage. Kim argues that it doesn't matter, both are equal.
~Dennis says marriage helps mature a person and helps them become deeper. Kim says that can happen but doesn't always guarantee it.
~Kim says people shouldn't look to marriage for happiness; Dennis agrees.
~Even though they are both divorced, Dennis hopes to remarry someday; Kim could go either way.
~Kim says "I’d rather be single for the rest of my life than be unhappy with the wrong person."
~All things being equal, Dennis argues the best life has to offer is to be in a happy marriage.

skews towards men

2008-09-10T15:51:00.005-05:00

Sept 10
~Dennis begins by addressing an accusation by a listener that the Male/Female skews towards men. Dennis pleads guilty and explains why this is so….

1. Men are simpler. Less complicated than women.
2. Dennis is a male, thus can give insight about men that he can't about women.
3. A Woman who understands the male nature of her husband will have a happier marriage.

~Men need a defined role in the family. It can be breadwinner, or homemaker. Whatever it is, men respond better when their role is clearly defined.
~Men want wives, not competitors.
~Most men are not jerks. They don't marry with the intent to be unfaithful.
~Men need to be recognized for their achievements.

Role Models

2008-09-03T08:47:00.002-05:00

August 28
~Dennis talks briefly with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former lieutenant governor of Maryland, eldest daughter of the late Bobby Kennedy, and delegate to the convention, about the difference between boys and girls and macro-role-models.
~This wasn't a Male/Female hour, but interesting points about starting values and beliefs.

difference

2008-08-29T10:10:00.002-05:00

A friend just told me a good analogy between men and women:
Men are like waffles: they are good at compartmentalizing everything in life.
Women are like spaghetti: everything in life is intertwined and connected.

Men want women to be more traditional - and women 'are HAPPY to be the housewife'

2008-08-28T16:34:00.000-05:00

from www.dailymail.co.uk
Last updated at 8:02 AM on 28th August 2008

It was the feminist dream of the 1960s – a world in which men and women share the load equally.

But it seems the fairer sex has all but abandoned the struggle. According to research published today, most men want a traditional wife – and women are often only too
happy to oblige.

In turn, it claims that the husband women most desire is a ‘retrosexual’ – meaning they are more hunter gatherer than a ‘metrosexual’ stay-at-home father.

History repeating: Wedding bliss in the 1950s

More than 1,500 adults were asked about the attributes that they ‘most valued’ in a spouse or partner. Their answers could have been taken from a manual to happy married life in the 1950s.

At the top of the men’s list was ‘taking care of the home’, followed by cooking, cleaning and great parenting.

Only 16 per cent said they value ‘financial stability’ in a woman – which means most men put domestic bliss above a wife who calls the shots in the boardroom.

The research from.the Yorkshire Building Society found many women are making equally conventional choices.

Nearly 40 per cent said ‘financial stability’ is one of the most important qualities in their husband and they rank gardening as more important than an ability to cook or clean.

Tanya Jackson, corporate affairs manager at the building society, said: ‘A lot of women used to think they wanted a metrosexual man.

‘But then they realised they were fed up with a man who spent longer in the bathroom than they did.

‘Many women now feel they actually want a hunter-gatherer and they will look after their man in return.’

Figures from the Office for National Statistics bear out the claims. More than 2.1million women say they do not work because they are ‘looking after their family or home’.

Only 193,000 men gave the same answer – a figure which has fallen by 6 per cent over the past year.

Opinion Reading

2008-08-26T09:56:00.000-05:00

Heteroflexible: Girls kissing girls is the latest trend

Imagine that you hear that your 18-year-old daughter was kissing another girl at a party last weekend. What races through your mind? "O my gosh, she's exploring same-sex attractions. She must be a lesbian."

Hold up, Mom and Dad. You're showing your age. Chances are, your daughter's not fixed on the pretty young blonde she's locking lips with. There may be something entirely different and unexpected going on.

"Girls making out with each other to turn on guys is the latest craze at high school and college parties," according to the online magazine Salon.com.

Still don't believe it? Listen to this summer's monster hit song, "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry. It's an international phenomenon -- topping the charts all summer in America, Canada, Australia and Great Britain. A few weeks ago, Perry was a headliner at the Warped music festival at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, belting out the song's provocative lyrics:

I kissed a girl and I liked it,

The taste of her cherry chapstick,

I kissed a girl just to try it,

I hope my boyfriend don't mind it.

It felt so wrong, it felt so right.

Perry cagily maintains that her song is about drunken curiosity regarding same-sex attractions. But her music video, which features gyrating women in lingerie, is clearly designed to give the male libido a jolt.

We baby boomers like to think we invented and defined the sexual revolution. But our offspring are tossing out the categories we took for granted, including the view that "gay or straight" is preprogrammed.

Young women whom Salon.com interviewed about the girl-on-girl trend said they had initially kissed other females to get a free beer at parties or on a dare from guys. But they soon saw it as a way to signal to males that they are "sexually open and adventurous."

"It was like, look, I'm the center of attention!" recalled one 16-year-old.

The 16-year-old, who first saw girls making out at a party and later tried it herself at male urging, added, "And the kissing itself didn't really bug me. From then on, it became a normal thing to do."

"It makes you feel more attractive," said another girl. "You're turning on a guy, and he thinks it's cool."

Staged bisexuality is now the norm for what is being called the "post-gay generation."

Salon reports that "the term for the 'I'm straight but I'll kiss girls' mentality is 'heteroflexible,'" according to Deborah Tolman of (where else?) San Francisco State University's Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality. Salon also has its headquarters in San Francisco.

'The erotic new trend'

Female bisexuality is "the erotic new trend (everyone's trying it)," announced Marie Claire magazine in 2006.

A 2005 survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appeared to confirm this. It found that while 1.3 percent of women identified themselves as homosexual, 11.5 percent of women ages 18 to 44 -- and about 14 percent of women in their late teens and early 20s -- report at least one sexual encounter with another woman.

Only about 4 percent of women, ages 18 to 59, reported such an encounter in a similar survey in 1992.

What is fueling this trend?

One factor is the huge popularity of Girls Gone Wild, a DVD franchise that films alcohol-addled females' sexual encounters with other women at college drinking revels. Same-sex kissing has been glamorized by celebrities, including Madonna and Britney Spears.

One of the biggest influences, however, may be Internet pornography, which has dramatically altered young people's ideas of mainstream sexual behavior.

"Girls aren't kissing other girls because they want to," Pamela Paul, the author of "Pornified," told Salon. "They're doing it because they want to appeal to boys their age. And for boys their age who've developed sexually alongside Internet porn, their sexual cues are affected by the norms and standards of porn. And that's girl-on-girl action."

The result? Rampant cultural confusion.

Straight girls 'playing gay'

Chicago Tribune sex columnist Jenni Spinner, who is a lesbian, maintains that Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" song "sets gay rights back." In nearly every "gay dance dive," she has complained, "the joint has been infiltrated by a gaggle of giggling straight girls, playing gay for a night because it amuses them."

Women who kiss other women to attract guys are making it "difficult to distinguish between the behavior of someone who is legitimately sexually interested and someone who wants to impress the boy across the room," according to New York magazine.

Increasingly, young people are transcending sexual categories altogether, the magazine points out. They are coining terms such as "pansexual," "bi-curious," "bi-queer" and "metroflexible" to describe their fluid sexuality.

This is the brave new world that the sexual revolution unleashed. Has it liberated our daughters, as originally promised?

One young woman interviewed by Salon says that, for her and her friends, it comes back to an age-old desire to be cherished by a man.

"A lot of girls who do want long-term boyfriends will still settle for the hookup [triggered by girl-on-girl kissing] because it gives them that temporary feeling of being taken care of and being close to someone," she said.

"It's sad to see that this is what it's come to -- that guys will raise the bar and girls will scramble to meet it. Women just want to know what they have to do to get these guys to fall in love with them."

Katherine Kersten • kkersten@startribune.com Join the conversation at my blog, www.startribune.com/thinkagain.

Bonus Reading!

2008-08-25T08:50:00.000-05:00

(Special Article: Since it relates to "male/female" issues, I thought I'd put this here too)

Real Men

by Mike S. Adams

Author’s Note: Having broken one or more of the following rules in no way excuses a man from following them in the future.

A divorced friend of mine was complaining to me recently about the pool of women available to him here in the coastal Carolina region. His specific complaint was that too many (I think he said “all”) of the women were carrying too much baggage to have a successful relationship. I’m so tired of hearing “men” make this complaint that I’ve made it the subject of today’s column.

The thesis of my rebuttal is really simple: It is not entirely fair and accurate to say that most adult women are carrying a lot of “baggage” or have a lot of “issues.” (Remember when people used to have problems, not issues?). It is much more accurate to say that most adult women are profoundly wounded and scarred by the things that “men” have done to them when they were not really acting like men. Below, I’ve listed a few examples:

Real Men Do Not Go To Topless Bars. I wrote about this topic two years ago in a column called “I Had a Dream.” But, it is worth repeating that topless bars are little more than fronts for organized crime. This includes the punks who operate the strip club near UNC-Wilmington. These people take women with low self-esteem – often victims of sexual abuse – and get them hooked on cocaine that is sold in their club (again: an organized crime front). To the extent that “men” frequent these places, they fund the destruction of the life of someone’s daughter. This is a disgrace and no such “man” can even remotely be characterized as a Christian.

Real Men Do Not View Pornography. I recently asked an Obama supporter whether he ever viewed pornography on the internet. He said he did “occasionally.” I asked whether he would ever want his daughter to star in a porn flick. He said “never.” When I reminded him that the porn star has parents, too, he vowed to reconsider his continued viewing of internet pornography.

Something that “men” who view pornography do not realize is that it trains the mind to be sexually stimulated by seeing images of many different people nude and engaged in certain acts. Eventually, the viewer becomes unable to be stimulated by just one person. Thus, a “man” who views pornography is much more likely to hurt his wife by engaging in adultery. And when he’s caught, he’s much more likely to hurt his children with a painful divorce. Those who believe that porn affects only the viewer are simply uneducated, dishonest, or both. Where there is pornography, there is also co-lateral damage.

Real Men Do Not Have Sex With Women They Do Not Intend To Marry. I once read a survey indicating that the number of sex partners a woman has in a lifetime is only a fraction of the number of sex partners a man has in a lifetime. This can be explained by two factors: 1) men lie in an upward direction when asked how many people they’ve slept with and, 2) women lie in a downward direction when asked how many people they’ve slept with.

This becomes a problem later on in marriage when a woman is unable to forgive herself for having a lot of sex partners. This guilt is biologically, and not culturally, induced. And once a woman has lied about her past to a prospective husband, she cannot communicate with him about her guilt. The couple begins to have problems whose true origins are never addressed.

The only solution to this problem is for men to stop having sex with women they do not intend to marry. Men have it within their power to stop contaminating the future-wife pool. A little self-control can do a lot to strengthen a dying institution.

Real Men Do Not Engage In Post-Marital Sex. Saying “I used to be married” is a pretty lame excuse for engaging in post-marital sex. And, if you have children, especially girls, there’s a really good reason to avoid it. Put simply, if you have young girls and you start having sex after marriage your girls will find out about it from your ex-wife. Of course, your ex-wife will have learned about it from your mutual friends.

There’s a good chance that your young daughters will still look up to you even after a nasty divorce. They may want to marry someone with many of your qualities. Don’t send the message that they need to sleep with such a man in order to get his attention.

Real Men Never Relinquish the Role of Spiritual Head of the Household. God did not give the Ten Commandments to a woman. Nor did He send his only begotten daughter to save womankind. If your potential spouse has trouble understanding this, you need to reconsider your relationship. And once your children are grown, your leadership obligation continues. If your child has strayed spiritually – whether into paganism or atheism - it may or may not be the result of poor modeling on your behalf. Regardless, men have an obligation to fight for their children’s spiritual redemption. A man’s willingness to do so determines whether he leaves behind a legacy that glorifies God or one that glorifies Satan.

In a future installment, I will deal with the issue of “real women.” That installment will talk about the things women are doing to hurt other women. “Real Women” will include, among other things, a comprehensive discussion of fake boobies, why I don’t like them, and how they contribute to global warming.

Modesty

2008-08-20T20:17:00.000-05:00

August 20
~What happens when women display their bodies? Males look. But men don’t necessarily want to be governed by their libido.
~Women need to be aware that how they dress will effect how males regard them. Often women, especially young women, have no clue.
~Dennis distinguishes between "men" and "males". Male is your nature. Men is your behavior, in contrast to boys. You can't control your male nature, but you can as a man control how you respond to your nature.
~Males are aroused when they see more female skin.
~Women should not be afraid to dress in a way that shows their figure, but should be aware that the more skin exposure will create a different reaction from males than less skin exposure.

more on the visual

2008-08-20T20:13:00.000-05:00

Friday Bonus from Open Lines....
(start at 8min, 40sec.)
~when does a man's preoccupation with the visual become a betrayal of his spouse?
~discussing the difference between a husband looking through Self Magazine, Victoria's Secret, and Playboy.

The Power of the Visual

2008-08-14T12:41:00.000-05:00

August 13
~ The Power of the Visual Men are stimulated by the visual - the glimpse of a leg or a bare shoulder of a woman can excite a man. Women don't have this preoccupation and have a hard time understanding it.
~ Like how men can't understand what childbirth is like, women can't understand the power of the visual stimulation.
~ The majority of people who purchased Play Girl were gay men.
~A wife called in and wished that her husband would just accept that he is visually aroused instead of denying it and being ashamed of it.
~Men can be aroused by an anonymous leg, but it means nothing.
~It's one thing to notice, but it's another thing to act on it.
~Being aroused is very temporary, so if a guy sees a pretty lady on the street, he may be aroused temporarily, but by the time she passes by, it's forgotten.

Bonus Hour:

2008-08-08T08:44:00.000-05:00

June 7 show
~Hef and the Sexual Revolution: Cause, effect or opportunist
~ Dennis is going to be interviewed for a documentary on Hugh Hefner. The documentarians sent him a list of questions in advance. Dennis shares some of those questions and his answers.
~One caller suggest that the sexual revolution came in part as a result of the fraudulent Kinsey report that said that everyone was having affairs. Thus, it normalized behaviors that were once seen as a negative for society.
~A woman who was in Playboy in 1966 called in. She said she did it for the money ($10,000). She thought it had some positive effects like liberating guilt from past mistakes, but also thought it had some negative lingering effects as well. She said that she did not know what effect the magazine had on men.
~Dennis says one negative of Playboy is that it stunts some boys from becoming men and becoming responsible adults.

Job or Home?

2008-08-07T09:09:00.000-05:00

August 6
~Job or Home? Which is more important?
~Dennis: "Well, it depends on your sex. Women are preoccupied with making a home. Men are defined by their job."
~ Feminism has tried to alter this equation, and led a lot of women and men astray as consequence. This is not to say women can’t take great satisfaction from their job or men from their home life.
~Generally, Men get great satisfaction and meaning in life from their job in a way that women do not.
~A man could have a great wife and family, but if he is dissatisfied with his vocation, then he has a big hole in his esteem.
~This says nothing about women and their job satisfaction, only that it is different from what a man feels about his job.
~Boys don't have relationships with dolls in the way that girls do. And girls don't crash trucks together like boys do. They aren't taught this, they just do it.
~If we can't talk in generalities, then we can't say anything at all. Example, generally, men are hairier than women, but that doesn't mean all men are hairier, but that generally this is true.
~Men have a desire to conquer the world.
~Many women who went for a career over or before marriage and children regretted not starting a family sooner.
~The dissatisfaction that some women feel who have a great job but no husband, so it is for a man with a great wife, but dissatisfied vocation.

Are men and women really different?

2008-07-23T15:50:00.000-05:00

July 22
~Should you give your child a gender neutral upbringing?
~Are boys and girls inherently different? Dennis says yes and explains why.
~The problem with saying "boys and girls are the same" is that it's a theory, but not based on reality.
~Boys and Girls do not have the same needs. They are wired differently.
~It's natural for boys, and not girls, to wrestle with each other.
~Boys are naturally more curious about seeing nudity than girls.
~Hugh Hefner did not make millions by creating a male-sexual-nature; he made millions by exploiting it.

Reading a Woman’s Mind

2008-07-17T08:58:00.000-05:00

July 16
~Is it possible? Should men be able to do it? Can women read men’s minds any better than men can read theirs? Dennis offers his theories; callers weigh in.
~ One female caller said that anyone who can talk should not expect their mind to be read.
~Men are not as complicated as women, thus it is easier for a woman to read a man's mind. You can't expect the other sex to be like you.

The Ideal Husband

2008-07-10T10:24:00.000-05:00

July 9
~Maureen Dowd, the columnist of the NY Times, writes a rare non-political column, and ironically it turns out to be one of the most popular she’s ever penned.
~The topic: what kind of man is worthy of marriage. She cites a 79-year-old priest to make her points.
~ The priest’s advice synchs nicely with Dennis’s own published views.
~Here are the columns (column one, column two) Dennis wrote two years ago on questions you want to ask yourself about your prospective spouse.
~We should have our friends help be vetters for our potential spouse. As a friend, don't trust when a woman says about her boyfriend, "...but you don't know him like I do." That's a warning sign that the guy is trouble.

Husbands are not perverted for wanting sex

2008-07-03T10:41:00.000-05:00

July 2
~Dennis reads an email from a listener who describes how she now understands her husband’s sexual drive much better now having listened to the Male/Female hour.
~Men who want sex with their wife frequently are not perverts. That's part of male nature.
~Husbands know their wife loves them when she has sex with him.
~Husbands need to know that they must know how their wife feels love from him. And then he must do that! If it's a daily phone call, then call. If it's flowers, send them. If it's a foot massage, rub!
~The pornification of society has been bad as a whole.
~All of this is a generalization. So if the problem is the other way, that also needs to be addressed.

why are many women depressed?

2008-06-27T15:49:00.000-05:00

June 25
~Dennis discusses his latest column, the second part of an earlier piece, “Why Are So Many Women Depressed?”
~Dennis asks, "But how could this be when women have more opportunity, more independence and endure less sexism than ever before?"
~Caller's give their opinions too.

Stay Faithful

2008-06-19T10:01:00.000-05:00

June 18
~Should couples spend as much time together as possible? Or do they each need their own “space”? Dennis thinks the more time, the better, but callers have their own theories.
~Dennis offers non-religious, non-moral, practical reasons why a man should stay faithful to his spouse.
~You more secrets you keep from a spouse or friends, the more distance you put in the relationship.
~Having affairs creates holes in intimacy in a marriage.
~Some men have affairs just for the physical pleasure, but it ruins intimacy.
~Sex is the oxygen of marriage. Each spouse but know that they must do their part to be available to each other. If you don't have a sex-drive, then seek help.
~Life is messy, and divorce should be an option. But the last option after all other options have been tried.

Space and Time

2008-06-19T10:00:00.001-05:00

June 11
~It is good that a couple is inseparable.
~Couple should like to spend lots of time together.
~more time together the better (but not all agree).

Obligatory Sex

2008-06-19T09:59:00.002-05:00

June 4
~Dennis talks with frequent Prager Show guest, Allison Armstrong, co-founder of Celebrating Men, Satisfying Women seminars. They discuss importance of sex in a marriage.
~Sometimes, sex is an obligation. It’s that important in a marriage.

50/50

2008-06-19T09:59:00.001-05:00

May 28
~Is “50/50” the best marriage arrangement, the idea that it’s best for couples to share jobs? Or is it a nice-sounding feminist idea that doesn’t work?

Why Guys Should Marry?

2008-06-19T09:58:00.002-05:00

May 21
~Male nature is not monogamous. But men benefit greatly from marriage.
~males when they grow up need to decide if they want to remain a boy, or become a man.

Declining Masculinity

2008-06-19T09:58:00.001-05:00

May 14
~Is there a decline of masculinity among men? If so, what impact does it have on men and women? Dennis has his theories. Callers offer theirs.

Sex Objects

2008-06-19T09:57:00.000-05:00

May 7
~“He sees me as a piece of meat.” This is a common complaint that women make about their husbands and boyfriends. But is this a bad thing or a good one? Callers relate their own experiences and Dennis offers his own theories.
~It’s good for a husband to pursue his wife in the bedroom.
~“He sees me as a piece of meat.” This is a common complaint that women make about their husbands and boyfriends. But is this a bad thing or a good one? Callers relate their own experiences and Dennis offers his own theories.
~If you let your moods control you, you will be unhappy. Be careful when you say, “I’m not in the mood for sex.” Don’t let that be an often used excuse.

Should Women “Settle”?

2008-06-19T09:56:00.000-05:00

April 30
~Dennis talks to Lori Gottlieb, regular commentator for National Public Radio and author of a controversial article for Atlantic Monthly, “The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough.”
~talking with the author of this article
~when you have a realistic view of marriage, it ends up being more romantic than what you get in a 2 hour movie.
~when men are 40 they can still find viable life partners, but when women are 40 the dating pool is very different.
~many women in their 20s says they’d want a great career over a great husband; and women in their 30s say “i used to think that.”
~better to settle than live your life alone.
~no job is worth what you lose in the time with family.

Are the sexes really different?

2008-06-19T09:55:00.002-05:00

April 23
~Are the sexes really different? The answers seems obvious to most of us, but not to feminist intellectuals. Unfortunately, they have had a profound impact on our society.
~Men see women as sex objects because it’s nature, not nurture.
~Boys will turn anything into a gun (or sword).
~If a girl is given a truck, she will name it and treat it like a baby. A boy will crash the truck. And a girl will put a dress on a dinosaur, but boys won’t.
~”Gender-Neutral” means emasculation, but never defeminization.

Teenage Sexuality

2008-06-19T09:55:00.001-05:00

Apri 16
Dennis discusses this story.
The death of “the feminine” means that some men do not know how to treat women differently from themselves.
The problem is that the words “equality” and “sameness” became synonymous. This is not good, because men and women are equal, but the are not the same.

What Sex Means to Men

2008-06-19T09:53:00.000-05:00

April 9
~Women need to be taught about men; men need to be taught about women: it’s like a foreign language that needs to be learned.
~Love felt is pointless if it isn’t expressed. Better to express and not feel, than feel and not express.
~A husband feels loved when they have sex more so than the wife.
~And sometimes a man needs sex even if it’s not romantic- sometimes it’s a duty.
~The best foreplay for a wife is when the husband does the dishes.
~Being in the mood for sex should not matter as often as it’s blamed: we don’t say, “I’m not in the mood to take care of my kids. No, we take care of our kids because we are responsible for them.”
~Moods should never determine what is right or wrong.
~Moods is Hollywood, not reality.

Male Female Hour

2008-06-19T09:50:00.000-05:00

April 2
~Men have a drive for variety that women don’t have; which is why they are more prone to casual sex.
~Women want men to read their minds; but men can’t.
~Women recall and replay conversations better than men.
~Men are visually oriented in ways that women aren’t.
~Men are more drawn to facts; women are drawn to intuition.
~Track records matter.

Dennis Prager "Male-Female Hour"

Children Disrupting

Open Lines

Women Controlling Emotions

29

Public Humiliation

Conditional Love

Recovering Trust

Kosher Sutra

control yourself

Women, Sex and the Mood

Dennis writes... Part 2

When Women Aren’t in the Mood, Part 1

Dennis writes... Part 1

How Do Your Resolve Religious Differences at the Holidays?

bonus audio!

Falling Out of the Tree

cha-ching

Men Overspend to Attract Mates

Role Models

Pet Names

The biggest no-no!

Love in the Time of Darwinism

Wife versus Centerfold

differences....

Females Dominate US Higher Education

articles

Why Are Women More Liberal than Men?

Men Who Don’t Want Sex

Marriage: how much work should it take?

Date Your Spouse for the Rest of Your Life

Does it matter? Singleness vs Marriage.

skews towards men

Role Models

difference

Men want women to be more traditional - and women 'are HAPPY to be the housewife'

Opinion Reading

Bonus Reading!

Modesty

more on the visual

The Power of the Visual

Bonus Hour:

Job or Home?

Are men and women really different?

Reading a Woman’s Mind

The Ideal Husband

Husbands are not perverted for wanting sex

why are many women depressed?

Stay Faithful

Space and Time

Obligatory Sex

50/50

Why Guys Should Marry?

Declining Masculinity

Sex Objects

Should Women “Settle”?

Are the sexes really different?

Teenage Sexuality

What Sex Means to Men

Male Female Hour