Girls having ridiculous sex

T he lizards were totally having sex. Kathryn Hahn knew it, and even the man who owned the lizards knew it, though he was trying to be very polite about the whole situation. Hahn and I stumbled upon this strange tableau — a man, bald and tattooed and wearing tube socks, sitting at the bottom of a narrow concrete staircase with two bearded dragons on his thigh, one perched on top of the other — when we were hiking in the hills above her house in Los Feliz last June. He told us that their names were Sun and Shine. Hahn was dressed like a cross between a power walker and a gardening enthusiast in white Adidas track pants, a ratty yellow Seattle SuperSonics T-shirt and an enormous straw sun hat with a chin strap. She kept flashing me a subtle sideways glance while curling up the right side of her mouth — a mischievous invitation.

Are we all doing it? And if so, how often? And are we doing it correctly? Are what else is there to try?

It's Christmas — the season for making merry, going out and, if you're single, trying to snog people under the mistletoe before the pubs close. So I thought it would be a good time to look at one of the oldest assumptions in the Men vs Women book: can women get sex whenever they want, while men are doomed to wait on the sidelines until our sexual fancy falls upon them? I don't like the bar example. First, and most obviously, it is not universally true.

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