New Yorker cartoon

"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.' Aldous Huxley.

A friend, who was hugely successful with women, once told me: 'You talk to women in the same way that I do to children: as if you were talking to an adult. And it works. Women find it flattering, as children do, but they find it tiring and hard to keep it up.' 

I was very  amused but terribly shocked by this and think I probably still am.