Lolling locally

Michael Silverstein, author of “Women Want More” expounds on women from New York...

Silverstein talked about particular findings regarding New York women. “Women in New York have enormous issues with money, enormous issues with time,” he observed. “They are more likely to get divorced, and they are more troubled about finding love.” Only seventeen per cent of New York women rate themselves “highly satisfied” with their sex lives, compared with twenty per cent nationally and twenty-five per cent globally. On the other hand, New York women have more friends than anyone else on the planet: the average New Yorker would invite at least sixty-five friends to her wedding, compared with a national average of fifty-nine. Called upon to explain this phenomenon, Silverstein remembered a recent visit to a New York Bikram-yoga studio. “I have been to Bikram yoga all over the country, and this was the friendliest, most conversational, most open yoga class I have ever been to—like, in a different category,” he said. “I have been there twice, and the instructor knows me by name. I have been to the studio in Chicago forty times, and the instructor doesn’t know me.”