Sex-Ploytation (Mass Market Paperback)

~ (Author) "book touched off a furor of controversy and female rage (it was vilified as a textbook of misogyny). Women's age-old scam of trading sex for..." (more)
Key Phrases: withholding sex, The Probe, Esther Vilar, The Manipulated Man

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Product Description

This is a book about male-female relationships that deals with contemperary female duplicity in our modern society and refutes the false feminist propaganda about equal rights. The text takes off where The Manipulted Man by Esther Vilar left off 27 years ago when it was first published and points out How Women Use Their Bodies To Extort Money From Men.

From the Publisher

"The central thesis of the book--that women are nothing but prostitutes preying on the hard work and sexual vulnerability of men--has hit the target dead on. It's all true, every guy knows it--but you're not supposed to say this stuff!"

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: April House Pub; 1 edition (June 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966963903
• ISBN-13: 978-0966963908
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (88 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,255,302 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars more, please., June 2, 2002

By A Customer

Yes, this book is inflammatory and somewhat repetitive. No, the author does not back up his facts too well, nor is it well-organized. And no, not all women are like the ones the author describes here.
And yet, I feel this book needs to exist as a howl of frustration in the face of an overly-PC world. Have you ever wondered why there are countless books on relationships about "what women want" and how men "need to change"? Matthew Fitzgerald claims here that it is because women essentially *don't* know what they want, other than money and any excuse not to have to work for a living.
You will not find an extensive bibliography or statistics here, but the author speaks from the gut, discussing the following points:
1. If a man acts like a jerk, he is a jerk. Except if he has a lot of money; then women consider him a "challenge".
2. Women are not interested in finding a true loving partner; they are only interested in finding a free ride through life, financed by a man.
3. Women are raised to essentially use their bodies as a bargaining tool.

This is risky stuff to put in print, and although Fitzgerald is not a very skilled writer, I feel this book is important because someone has to fire a salvo in retaliation for years and years of books and TV shows which claim men are the ones doing everything wrong.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars WOW, this is a book that provides humor and insight........., August 17, 1999

By A Customer

If you are a baby boomer and single, you need to read this book to put relationships in perspective. Portions of it are a little extreme, but need to be to make the point.

If you have every been burned, divorced or just raked over the coals by a woman...you will enjoy this book.

Women hate this book and with good reason...

32 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars required reading for all males, March 22, 2004

By	cmdr_iceman (Detroit, Mi United States) - See all my reviews

I have read all 72 reviews of this book. What Fitzgerald wrote about women is generally true and applies to MOST of the women MOST of the time. If you are a woman whom this material does not apply to and you're one of the few exceptions it still does not disprove what Fitzgerald wrote is GENERALLY true-the exception to the rule simply proves the rule is true. This book should be required reading for every twelve and thirteen-year-old boy (before their hormones fully take control and become blinded by their want for sex at any cost) they should have their fathers, uncles and or older brothers go over the material with them and help them fathom the expedient and subversive nature of woman before it is too late. Every young man should read this book, if only to rip the rose-colored glasses from his eyes and help him see women more realistically. If you're a man over 30 you won't find anything in this book that life experiences with women haven't taught you the hard way. And I commend the handful of women who reviewed this book and were actually brave enough to admit the truth to themselves and to the world that what Fitzgerald wrote is generally true. I had always wondered why my mother never told me about the nature of woman and what goes on inside her head when selecting a mate and after reading this book I now know why. And you ladies can malign Fitzgerald's jejune writing style all you like I don't believe his ambition was to win the Pulitzer Prize when he sat down to write this book as he stated in the introduction on pg ix, "This is an incendiary book."