I’m talking about the thing with Effington and the student. Is that something that happens a lot?” She takes another sip of beer and shrugs. “If it does, nobody talks about it. However, speaking as a Ph.D. candidate in psychoanalysis, it seems inevitable it would happen a lot.” “How so?” “College women tend to be attracted to highly educated men, and professors are often men who’ve never been particularly attractive to women, present company excluded, of course.” “Of course,” I laugh, taking another sip of beer. “Suddenly, at a time when many men struggle with mid-life issues, they’re being
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