Buy a fiction, The Dying Animal by Philip Roth. THE DYING ANIMAL is a slim volume, told in mostly conversational manner. THE DYING ANIMAL is both pornographic and poetic, sexual and sentimental, and ultimately, a socio-sexual history lesson, a love story, cultural commentary, and dirty old man's fantasy all rolled into a pithy 156-page package. if you are one of those hapless Casanovas that loves women and if you are a dyed-in-the-wool Philip Roth fan, then this book is for you. There are words I love best -- "Can you imagine old age? Of course you can't. I didn't. I couldn't. I had no idea what it was like. Not even a false image --- no image. And nobody wants anything else. Nobody wants to face any of this before he has to. How is it all going to turn out? Obtuseness is de rigueur."