But she clearly had what she calls "it", the thing that kept men flocking?
Social stigma, and the legacy of India's forced family planning programmes, has kept men away from clinics.
I'm sure there are marriages that survive or are even strengthened by infidelity -- certainly there is the European model of long marriages that include mistresses and kept men.
Indeed, the emotional oppression of men, inverse to that of women, has kept men from fully knowing and actualizing their essential and deeply fulfilling role of father.
Still, for all its progressiveness regarding gender equity, the Olympics has, for the most part, kept men and women apart when it comes to the events themselves.
Pierre and his friends, once beautiful kept men, are now the ones paying for sex: the hustlers have become the johns.
(No one is sure why; the best guess is that an improving economy has kept men out of the house and given women enough money to escape if they need to).
I also admired the screenplay's complex interplay between self-made working-class men trapped in a dynast's playground, between ardent American super-patriots aping the steeplechasing pursuits of the former colonial oppressor and their kept men in the wrestling barn.
The 10-times European champions took the game to Roma, but were frustrated in the first half as the hosts kept men behind the ball, while looking to catch Real out on the break.
For a time the special task of American literature, like that of American politics, was the representation of bonds between men that kept men free -- the provocation of sympathy, without any tethering of it.
Her mother, Johanna, she tells us, lost most of her teeth by the time she was 15. "No matter how she looked otherwise, tall and long-legged, long brown hair, pale skin that held its flush, it was this something vulnerable about the mouth and eyes too that kept men coming back to her.
