I am not a fan of the television show, but when my girlfriends outvoted me two to one on seeing the midnight showing, I just had to check out what the craze was all about. Often I caught the promos for the series on cable TV (even more frequently when the show was syndicated), flipped through the promo ads in women’s magazines, heard my girlfriends rant and rave about it, and even took the “Which Sex and the City Character Are You?” quiz on the Internet. Still, the series still did not strike an interest with me. After all I am a young, geeky mother, journalist, and college student. What can I relate to in the sex lives of older women? Sure, my friends and I go out for lunch, have a drink, and discuss our adventurous, dramatic, and all-too-often comedic sex lives and firmly believe—like most girlfriends post-Sex-and-the-City-Era—that we deserve a television series about our lives. I remained a skeptic about the success of the series and, therefore, the movie, certainly wondering how it could generate such a cult following of women between the ages of 21-60.

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