“What does a woman want?” Sigmund Freud famously asked. In many ways, it’s a knuckleheaded question. With almost 4 billion females on the planet, we can assume that women want any number of things. Surely most of them desire what the great bulk of humanity wants: respect, love, joy, liberty, and so on. Those universal hopes aside, we might surmise that Freud’s question would elicit 4 billion answers. So let’s narrow down the question. Let’s ask instead: “What do wives want from their husbands?” Nope—that’s still too broad. With nearly 70 million married women in the United States alone, we can imagine that wives might want everything ranging from a husband who brings home a higher paycheck to a guy who doesn’t leave his clothing strewn all over the floor. Let’s try a more specific approach. Let’s take a different angle and ask: What might men do to please their …