What Makes Married Men Want to Have Affairs? -- New York Magazine

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Another pretty face of a generation
Published 5/29/2008 by Rebecca Traister at Salon
... did a few years ago) those men are not typically photographed blogging in their beds; when, as the Observer suggested, we read a first-person confessional by Philip Weiss (who wrote recently for New York about his extramarital sexual yearnings) we are not treated to a bare-limbed image of him, or any image of him at all. We are mired in a repetitious pattern of hate, jealousy and resentment toward those who are plucked by media powers and come to stand -- however inefficiently -- for the rest of us in the cultural imagination, securing the top spots, the best exposure, the ...

Stephanie Sandberg: What Do Men Want?
Published 5/29/2008 by Stephanie Sandberg at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
... As if I would know, but it was maddening trying to follow it in last week's New York magazine piece, "The Secret Lives of Married Men." Building on the dinner-party chestnut that men have a deep sexual need (a biological imperative!) to spread their seed and so shouldn't be expected to remain faithful within a marriage, the author wonders why the European husband-cheating model isn't as welcome in our society as, say, gay people are. ...

Episode 4075 (09/06/2008)
Published 6/10/2008 by Jennie at No Fact Zone
... Weiss Swapping: “Plus, my guest Philip Weiss says men are not instinctively monogamous. It’s his follow up to his ground breaking theory that the sun rises in the East.” ...

New York Scribe Taken to Task for Being a Pervy Old Man
Published 6/10/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
Investigative journalist Philip Weiss' "The Affairs of Men," his treatise on the difficulty that many middle-aged men (and women, though they're mostly ignored) like hooker connoisseur Eliot Spitzer have with maintaining monogamy in marriage, has thus far generated 314 comments on the New York magazine website, the vast majority of which take Weiss to task for intellectualizing a problem that could more simply be described as "Horny Dude Syndrome." Weiss appeared on Colbert Report last night to defend his position, but pretty much ended up being called a scumbag by ...

Stop Digging [Philip Weiss]
Published 6/10/2008 by Nick Denton at Gawker
It's awkward enough to rationalize extra-marital sex in print, as Philip Weiss did in a recent issue of New York. To do so on camera—while being ridiculed by Comedy Central's Steven Colbert—is sheer masochism. ...