Grade:

B+

The two guys who wrote this book get a lot of ass.

When asked to review "Make Every Girl Want You: How To Have Sex With Hot Girls (Without Even Dating Them)" by John Fate and Steve Reil, my feminist convictions shot up like antennae the size of antlers. However, after reading the specific steps for men outlined in the book, I almost gave them up.

Even though the cover is a picture from the calves down of a woman in high heels with her panties around her ankles, I vouch that there is truth to Fate's and Reil's wisdom of casual relationships. CCR is the name of their theory. The acronym stands for Compliments, Compassion and Reassurance; three of the most important traits a ladies' man must develop. However, the authors insist that you must be sincere in your aspiration to make women love you. It is not simply a devised facade of getting and retaining endless amounts of ever-available action. Instead, CCR is a method for living in harmony with college women. (Shame! I fell for this and I wasn't even in a bar.)

Following a proven fact that guys are self-absorbed sex fiends who only wish to boost their ego and the ascribed hypothesis that girls need emotional support, CCR is conceived. The writers even provide statistics as to why women have it tough. Fifteen percent have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 25. Forty percent of women become pregnant before 20, and 18 percent of them have a miscarriage or an abortion. Also, high percentages are bulimic and anorexic. This logic may seem unrelated or even grotesque in its misuse to get women into and then quickly out of your bed; but college girls do have a lot of issues to deal with that college men do not. And it would be helpful if they understood the reality of some women and if they do so sincerely, then, yes, there may subsequently be some sex. Actually, the method makes a world of sense. It does not ask boys to pretend, it demands that they change. Stop talking about all the goals you scored in the intramural sport nobody cares about; being extra funny to impress girls is as obvious as morning wood; and girls will not understand how cool you are if you are always telling them. Some of you sound like that lengthy Proposition 202 advertisement that repeats itself every commercial break, except with skinny legs and a UA T-shirt. Elections are over; cease your one-man campaign.

If you are going through a dry spell and want to be a better guy in general, Fate and Reil are your prophets. They descended upon college campuses everywhere to say: Listen to girls' problems, compliment them on something non-physical, tell her she picked the right movie to go to, meet her friends before you date her so you have choices, give her tons of oral sex, e-mail her the day after and remain friends after it ends because even later, girls only have comfort sex with people they have already slept with.