That's What She Said

Unlike the factory or the farm, where men?s virility was rarely in question, the proliferation of office work aroused anxieties over manliness, which was presumably sapped not only by the growing cloud of estrogen in the office but also by the stuff of office work itself?its soft sedentariness, its pencil-pushing. The gentleman valorized for most of the 19^th century distinguished himself from the coarse lower classes by corralling his desires, but the organization man of the mid-20^th century was expected?even encouraged?to do the opposite, if he were to escape utter emasculation. Sex was a way for a man to assert the he was a man, to keep in touch with his essential nature and protect it from the depleting effects of his job. When, in 1959, the journalist Edward R. Murrow exposed how companies routinely hired prostitutes for clients and wrote the costs off as a business expense, the scandalized public was nevertheless afforded a degree of relief. As Berbitsky puts it, ?the sex-in-business scandal at least proved organization men were still men.?

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