Ironically, I actually revised one small part of the manuscript (where there is some man-on-man action), fearing that it would turn off the straight men reading the book.

I understand the male obsession with sports as poorly as I comprehend the female obsession with shoes.īut it turns out that not filling the pages of my novel with sports trivia was a good creative decision because nearly all of my book's readers ended up being women. But Sex in the Title never does that (it only briefly mentions a shared love of basketball among certain characters). Given how central fashion was to Sex and the City, one might expect a male version of Sex and the City to emphasize stereotypical male interests like sports. Sex and the City begins with a group of four pre-existing friends, but Sex in the Title merges two unacquainted male social circles into one posse of five friends (after totally unrelated but equally hilarious dating disasters coincidentally bring the guys together). Oh, and their hair colors are different too. The five men of my book are each from different ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, which makes for far more entertaining situations and interactions. And not only is that inherently less interesting, it also doesn't do justice to New York City - a fascinatingly complex and diverse place that produces the most unlikely collections of people in ways that few other cities can. But the differences between the show and my book are at least as significant as their similarities - and not just because my book explores the male perspective.ĭiversity in Sex and the City amounts to four white women with different hair colors.

Sex in the Title by Zack Love