They don't get fat. They have great sex. And yes, They are French.

“French women ‘are the sexual predators now’.”

That is, if The Telegraph and the 12, 000 odd women interviewed for The Study on Sexuality in France are to be believed.

Read The Telegraph piece here.

The Antifits has always believed that in Europe lays the hope keep on with the French for the rest of the international community. Nothing beats me how the Germans take it when repeated French governments find the entire fault with Frankfurt for their own economic imprudence. But they do, and in recent years, Germany has never been stronger. Charlemagne in this week's Economist a fabulous insight on it.

They don't get fat. They have great sex. And yes, They are French. But can we in the French women see where we in this world of Venus and Mars are heading?

The report says that sexual behavior of men and women have gone increasingly similar. One in five men in France find sex boring, or have little interest in it. On the other hand, Women have gone increasingly assertive.

The Telegraph cites Le Nouvel Observateur, which says, “The good old dichotomy (male predators, females patiently awaiting the warrior’s return in front of the cave entrance) is in big trouble.”

There’s something we could all learn from the French. But unfortunately, that is often neither Politics nor Economics.

Either ways, I got my ticket booked to Europe next week.

Of Sarkozy and the Germans..

What’s up with Nicholas Sarkozy? If people haven’t yet had second thoughts about him, they should look at The Economist this week, which has this take on French foreign policy as it talks about President Sarkozy’s plan for the Mediterranean Union being in trouble.
Mediterranean Union?

His idea is called the “Appeal of Rome”. And is a little arrogant in its magnanimity as it talks about a union that would “overcome all hatred” and bring peace and civilization to the reason that is the cradle of European Culture.

It would not be very surprising if this idea would not go past the drawing board! The Blue marks the proposed Union.

But apparently, Berlin is not very happy with it.

Could I blame them? France having a proactive Foreign Policy is one thing, but it almost seems that Sarkozy is big on pissing people, more so the Germans. If Angela Merkel feels that it is almost as if the whole idea in conceptualized to undermine the Germans and the present EU, could she be blamed for it?

“The Germans are very sensitive to the principle of prior consultation,” wrote Jean- Pierre Jouyet, the French Europe Minister.

I would be sensitive if I had been so integral to something as Germany has been to the European Union, and not be on the guest list for the proposed Paris meeting on July 13th. And more so, if I might end up footing the bill for this would- be Parisian extravaganza.

Even I am running out of reasons to like him.

Yes, there is a world on the other side of the Atlantic!

Being in America can means that you almost detach yourself from what’s happening around the world. So, as the Presidential Election of 2008 gets a little overboard, and Senator Obama’s speeches gets a little repetitive (Yes Michelle, we know that your husband, above all, is a good man!), I just thought it would be nice to give it all a little break, and look on the other side of the Atlantic…

But more than anything, it is Tony. Yes, I am a Blairite, and a blatant one at that.

Tony Blair wants the EU Presidency. Yes, you heard that right. If that sounds ironical since Tony comes from a country that is not yet clear about where it stands on the union, think about poor old Gordon. After ten years of having Tony take all the credit for his economics and have a ringside view of it all from 11 Downing, he might have him now in Brussels. And damn, as America tries to imagine a Bill and Hillary saga in the White House, the prospect of Brown in London and Tony in Brussels, with every detail being split wide open in the often- raucous British (!) media is pretty terrifying. Hate Tony, Love Tony, but man, he is front page material.

More than the Browns of the world, we need the Tonys, the Obamas and the Sarkozies. They make politics sexy, civic engagement fashionable and keep democracy exciting. As a Political Science/ European Studies major, they make my life a little easier and give me an opportunity sometimes to get on dinner conversations. Otherwise in a city of SoHo and Williamsburg, you have to be kidding me if you are into politics. You rather be a fashionista.

And yes, now we come to Nicholas Sarkozy. Following the Democratic primaries has meant that I have not been following up on him real close. But I realize the pull of Sarkosphere is probably too incredible to be ignorant. Apparently, he has endorsed Tony Blair’s candidacy. And by all measures by the way, Carla Bruni’s No Promises is a beautiful album.

But I am scared of one thing. With this high profile marriage, or the insistence on the endorsing of David Martinon for the Mayorship of Neuilly even though the polls might suggest otherwise, and being perennially the headlines, he might end up wasting the unprecedented mandate he has to make history with reforms. Reforms is ironically what he came promising…

But it would be foolish to come to any conclusion as early as now. I don’t know a lot, but I know that it would be just naïve to think he does not know what he is doing. An example of the Sarkozy political brilliance would be when the French president was asked how he could justify holidaying on a private plane belonging to French industrialist, Vincent Bolore. He cheekily retorted, “What would you prefer? That I travel at the tax payer’s expense.”

They don’t teach you that in a Politics class. That is talent. Sheer talent.