Essay: The Ultimate Turn-On

If feminism was the fight for equality, did the partial victory prove worth the burning battle? The pursuit of parity makes sense only if it is a step up, not down. The quest for the Holy Groin, as it might have been called, is now superseded by the more fundamental question, "Do Women Need Men?" Or are homo saps of the male chromosomal make-up just devices like the dew claw on the dog, something evolution is shucking off?

Henry Higgins moaned in My Fair Lady, "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" Today, the question...