Book Review: Womanizer: "Knowing" Wonderful Women by Marv Rubinstein - Page 2

Randy is unabashedly non-monogamous when single. He prides himself on not leading women on, by having broken few hearts, by not telling the majority of his conquests that he loves them unless he truly meant it. Within his role of Lothario, he had his own code of honor. He has been married twice, for a total of 30 years, and has never cheated while married.

Regarding his own maturation and his flashes of insight into understanding women, Randy says:

"A little maturity had made me wiser. When you've got a good thing going, you think twice or ten times before giving it up because of some irrelevant altercation."

"…the two most important things in life were peace of mind and piece of ass."

"..the old story of women giving sex for love and men giving love for sex."

He describes why he prefers intriguing women rather than beautiful ones. He had one encounter with a woman who had a "perfect" body but bored him - in and out of bed.

He reported a story about one woman with whom he had a very strong sexual attraction, but who always needed to be on top. He learned she only did so in order to maintain her perfectly coifed hair. "Strange to say that flash of logical enlightenment somehow neutralized the chemistry of our relationship, and it shortly came to an end."

As to why he still does not trust women sixty-plus years after Annie, "I have seen women who were previously friends do things to each other that most men who hated each other would never even think of doing."

The "Final Curtain" chapter is the end of his story wherein he gives two different finales to his interactions with women and one very intriguing summary.

I had the opportunity to correspond with Marv Rubenstein through his aptly named affable curmudgeon website. He acknowledged that this novel was largely autobiographical. In his own words, "Since I shall be 86 in two weeks, the book brings me back to my misspent youth." The word "misspent" may be artistic license, because he has few recriminations regarding his love of women.

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