How To Talk A Woman Into Sex

October, 2002

A Bartender friend says he sees it night after night: A great-looking woman meets some guy–not Benicio Del Toro, not a stand-up comic, not even an heir to a beverage empire–and something he says convinces her that it's time to screw. Sometimes they make it only to the car before they are overcome with lust, and then they're back in the bar, looking obvious and thirsty. But each time the drama is tender and irresistible and follows a certain arc along which the guy, and always the guy. Has about...