So I walk into my poetry class expecting nice rhythm and maybe some iambic pentameter. What I wasn't expecting was for one guy to offend the entire female ratio in less than one minute.

The class started out normal enough. The teacher gave the first-day-of-class lecture. Then, we proceeded to give our names and the poems we like. So we go around the classroom with the usual favorites: Dickinson, Poe and Frost. Then the turn comes to Mr. Offensive.

He babbles about some famous poets and then mentions a poem he loved that is titled "Beer Slut." He explained that this particular poem summed up his freshman year of college. Vaguely curious, I watched a girl challenge him to recite it. He began the poem in a typical college setting: a party with beer. Then the character meets a girl. They are both drunk and look good to each other. So they do it like mammals and the girl keeps calling the guy afterwards.

But the end of the poem ended like this: Stop calling me, psycho! Ouch. As I felt a mix of emotions run through me, I glanced around at the rest of the girls. Jaws dropped in shock, large eyes and rather pissed-off faces glared at him. He, however, sat in complete glory of his little poem. I imagined most of the girls never knew that guys could be such dogs. As their faces bounced back to their usual posture, Sex in the City came to my mind.

You know, the HBO series. The show that caused such an uproar among women. There are four middle-aged women looking for, well, sex in the city. Perhaps they are looking for love too, but in the meantime, sex will do just fine. The media wonder just why this show is such a hit. It doesn't take a genius to figure this one out. The simple fact is that in the show, women are just like men. They have one-night stands and cringe at the idea of the guy calling back. They treat men like the meat we girls so often feel like. In the words of Carrie, Sarah Jessica Parker's character, "Try to have sex like a man."

In that particular episode, she finds her ex, takes him home and promptly leaves right afterwards. He is left begging for more.

But this isn't just an idealist on-screen saga written for HBO. Take for instance my friend, "Becky." She met a guy one night at a bar. They went out once and ended up having sex. Then he began to whine about commitment and called her almost every day. I had to give the guy props. He called for two, maybe three weeks straight.

He was quite persistent but it didn't pay off. Rather, Becky began to feel this guy was a psycho. Then the inevitable came. She ran into him on campus. She heard her name being hollered and turned around to a pathetic boy begging for any attention she would give him. She was short with him while he was telling her how good her hair smelled. Needless to say, Becky wants nothing to do with this guy. Why? Because she was just looking for one thing. He happened to be there at the right time.

Now, of course, this guy is thinking in the back of his mind, what a slut! But do guys ever get called sluts? No. That's because it is more an issue of experience. This is perplexing in itself. If a guy were to have a whopping 40 lovers at the age of 22, then he must surely be a stud and there is a good reason why he has had so many lovers. If he told a girl about the number of notches in his belt, she would probably be shocked for a few minutes and then rate him based on his sexual value. If he told a guy, they probably wouldn't believe him or would admire him for his great sexual prowess.

Now imagine a girl, age 22 with 40 lovers. Do you feel a negative connotation attached? If you asked the person next to you, you would get an obvious reaction. That girl, she must be really "loose" with no morals and no self-respect to have had so many lovers! How does it go from an award-winning metal to a baseball bat to someone's image?

All of this has led me to ask: Wouldn't the world be a better place if men and women were sexual equals? My male friend made an interesting point the other day. He actually said that women have more power when it comes to sex. He even went so far as to say that this is why men are pigs and "do" anyone they can — because they have such few offers. His philosophy was, if women gave it up easier, men wouldn't be such dogs.

I have a feeling a psychologist might disagree. Nevertheless, if women have this high-and-mighty power, then I suppose the women in Sex and the City have balanced it by behaving like men. I guess Carrie had the right idea when told her friends to "have sex like a man." A female sexual revolution just might change the world.