George Griffith quote
November 30th 2010 08:38
G J Griffiths reviewing Shere Hite's Women and Love, Otago Daily Times, 13th July, 1988.
The overall message is plain enough - that a great number of women (in America at least) have problems in finding love and sexual fulfilment with their men, and much of the reason is rightly attributed to a male lack of understanding.
At the same time, without drawing much comment from the author, the hundreds of written contributions silently show that the women contributors also appear to have very little understanding of the males they write about; that they are hopelessly unskilled in coaxing or seducing men to provide the kind of relationship they want; and that their concept of the differences and common qualities between the sexes, and how those differences and common qualities operate, is not a whit better informed than that of their males.
I'm assuming that this G J Griffiths is George Griffiths, a bearded gent who used to run a very good secondhand bookshop (Otago Heritage Bookshop) in Dunedin. He is
also an historian of local matters, and was often a good source for finding local history books when no one else knew where to get them. He also compiled the texts for a cantata relating to Dunedin's history called From the Southern Marches. It was performed in 1998, and recorded at that time. I have one of the original CDs. As far as I know it's never been produced since.
The overall message is plain enough - that a great number of women (in America at least) have problems in finding love and sexual fulfilment with their men, and much of the reason is rightly attributed to a male lack of understanding.
At the same time, without drawing much comment from the author, the hundreds of written contributions silently show that the women contributors also appear to have very little understanding of the males they write about; that they are hopelessly unskilled in coaxing or seducing men to provide the kind of relationship they want; and that their concept of the differences and common qualities between the sexes, and how those differences and common qualities operate, is not a whit better informed than that of their males.
I'm assuming that this G J Griffiths is George Griffiths, a bearded gent who used to run a very good secondhand bookshop (Otago Heritage Bookshop) in Dunedin. He is
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