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"Hi! My name’s Carl Bradshaw and I work as a writer for Manhattan's favourite glossy men’s magazine! Every Wednesday my friends and I meet to do lunch at our favourite trendy high street café. We 'catch up' and chat about all manner of subjects, be it literature (erotic), films (pornographic) or politics (who’s fucking whom)- somehow the conversation always seems to come round to sex, which we love to talk about - in gynaecological detail!

I often wonder if our parents fed us nothing but liquidised jazz-mags as babies, given the amount of base crudity that spews from our unapologetic mouths. Anyway, there’s Martin. He’s the high flying business type, reasonably restrained though he does like to talk about sex quite a bit. Second, there’s Charlie. He owns an Art gallery and is probably the most reserved and easily embarrassed of the group, though, truth be told, he will often indulge us in conversations about sex. Finally, there’s Sam, who seemingly has no dimension beyond sex; its all he talks about and all he does.

He often regales us with humorous takes on all his escapades. When he talks, we all listen! Whether its fucking three women in one day and treating them like shit or dumping some poor girl because her tits were just too damn small, it’s a non-stop roller-coaster ride of valueless intercourse and emotional torture for the hip men of today like us. Best still, we are applauded for doing so!”

To be serious for a moment, the programme Sex and the City certainly raised a number of interesting ideas. It is, even by title alone, a strong statement about the sexual strength of the modern woman. It bellows at the top of its lungs that women are no longer the meek and the mild, and that men aren’t the only gender who can engage in promiscuity for the sake of it and be actively encouraged by their peers. However, in this particular playground of immature one-upmanship between the sexes, you feel the women jumped just a little to hard on the end of the equality see-saw and the men ended up with bloodied faces . For example, I would see a programme that utilised the content as I hypothesised in the opening paragraph as sexist.

The fact is, such a show would never be made because (and rightly so) it would be seen as a chauvinist male fantasy where any women involved are merely receptacles for sex, their characters or emotions neither visible nor explored. Surely, then, shouldn’t this work the other way, too? I’m neither threatened and far from a prude (which is why I shall be discussing horse dildos if you read on…), but feel that we have somehow tainted ourselves in trying to effectively outdo each other on all matters gender-related. This isn’t an issue of men vs. women, its one of people.

However, this article is not to ponder whether we still strive for equality in the real sense of the word, or the troubling contradiction the aforementioned show portrays about the modern woman (“We are strong, we are smart, we are powerful…but I have two hundred pairs of shoes and that’s what matters!”). To concentrate on such topics would probably have me labelled sexist, so lets make a few issues clear: I am all for equality. I do not hate women (Though certain ones who held screening parties and cried after S.a.t.C finished and continued to bemoan the loss of it while such apparently trivial things such as the Madrid rail bomb took place tread a fine line…).

I certainly appreciate the incredible hardships women have had to endure just to be recognised in a society that was (and perhaps still is) overly controlled by men. In many cases this struggle continues. However, I believe that revelling in attempts to match a stereotypical ideal of “lad” culture is a damaging idea - for either gender. Are we really so shallow? We lack the sufficient depth to drown a small wasp if our consistent gender representations are anything to go by. Yet we never challenge these stereotypes; in many cases, we are even happy to conform to them!