An e-mail:

Surprise, surprise! Men and women act differently when it comes to sex.
Is this, as Dana suggests, a reason to elect more women?
Perhaps.
But then again, if we are going to get into a discussion about sex-based differences, we’d have to be willing to consider all the possible pros and cons frankly and openly. The same fundamental sex-based differences that make men more likely to cheat on their wives and women less likely to cheat on their husbands might make men superior politicians in other respects.
If we can talk about the sex-based differences that tend to make men worse politicians than women, then we need to be able to talk about the sex-based differences that tend to make women worse politicians than men. Among friends of extraordinary good will and good sense, that would be an interesting philosophical discussion. But I don’t think that is a discussion that can be carried on publicly by anyone who wants to keep his or her job (e.g, Larry Summers when he broached a similar discussion).
So maybe we oughta just drop the subject, and agree to presume, for the sake of the general peace and continued employment, that the graces and foibles attributable to sex tend to balance out in general, and that we should judge each man and woman in particular based on each one’s own character, ethics, virtues, or lack thereof.