Total BS. The name Sex and the City was the title of Candace Bushnell's New York Times column about her and her girlfriends.
Also, according to Author Camille Paglia:
Sex and the City is extremely important in entertainment history because of the way it foregrounded the pro-sex feminism movement of the 1990s that I was part of. The show is the most visible result of that generational shift away from the antipornography crusade that had dominated feminism in the 1970s and '80s. It was a tremendous explosion, proclaiming that the young modern woman was no longer afraid of sex and was an independent agent who actively embraced it.
On the one hand, SATC is a love poem to New York and to the glitter of Manhattan. But on the other hand, there's a chilliness to it because it starkly shows how young, unmarried women are at the mercy of men who have more wealth and power. It's obvious that the audience identified with Carrie Bradshaw's own inner turbulence, her searching for love, and her many hurts. The show charted the relationship troubles of women who were actively pursuing a career in ways that earlier generations were not able to. But how does the young career woman then integrate love into her life? How does she deal with men? Over time, the show really turned into an accurate anthropological chronicle of the bittersweet dilemma faced by the modern career woman. For every big career gain she makes, there's a trade-off in her personal life.
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With victory comes the power of choice. L. S. Kim, an assistant professor of film and digital media at the University of California at Santa Cruz who uses ''Sex and the City'' in some of her classes, says that women today have more options than ever and take pleasure in watching the characters of ''Sex and the City'' in the process of debating questions of love and sex, marriage and career. ''There is an historical shift in having all these questions,'' she said. ''Now women realize they can have both career and family. But it's difficult weighing how much you are going to have of a career or a family at a certain time.''
''What attracts women viewers is that the characters are conflicted and complicated,'' she says. ''We want to see women in the process of working through these questions.''
It is about how women handle feminism, not about sex and your 90% figure is totally ridiculous.
Well said. I’ve even speculated that the men in SATC are akin to the other accessories in the show—the shoes, dresses and handbags. Attractive objects that compliment the NYC environment in which these women are allowed to exorcise their relationships.