Time was when a woman had to please a man. He was her meal ticket for life. She competed to catch him, dieting, simpering, smiling. The fear for the woman was of being left on the shelf, humiliated. No more. Now women want to be stick-like and beautiful to please themselves or impress other women - not men. Women like to have partners: they don't need to have partners. And so it is the man who has to make the effort to please. He, too, diets, uses cosmetics, has his hair styled - and, in increasing numbers, as he gets...