Or, to reduce the phenomenon to even more accessible terms, we can turn to an explanation offered by Richard Morrison in the July 6 edition of The Times, "When both parties (the hetero man and woman) really crave a Tarzan-and-Jane relationship, it's a terrible waste of precious bonking time for her to go through the motions of pretending to be a feistily self-reliant wonderwoman, and him to play at being Mr. Metrosexual Milksop."