I put the title in quotes because Dr. Sigmund Freud once asked that exact question. He never got an answer. If Doctor Freud was not able to find out what it was that women wanted then, what makes us think we can figure it out now?

Well, the good doctor had a major problem we don’t have. In the late 1800s, women were not encouraged to express their opinions, quite the contrary. And the restriction on women to discuss their more intimate feelings was an even stronger taboo. As a result, whatever inner feelings women had way back then were kept strictly private. Even while primly stretched out on Dr. Freud’s couch, there was no way in heaven they were going to share their most intimate thoughts and feelings with him.

Welcome to the world of the 21^st Century woman. Now she’s perfectly willing to bare her soul, and Lord knows what else, on the Internet, via YouTube, MySpace, her own personal blog. This is a good thing. If we pay even the slightest bit of attention, women will tell us exactly not only what they want, but indeed expect from the men in their lives.

The good news. Because this website is called SIXTY IS SEXY NOW, you gentlemen reading this don’t have to try to figure out what 20-year old women want, unless of course you are one of those men who prefers dating adolescents

The rest of us can turn our attention to women who have gracefully passed into their fifth decade of living and having done so, have accumulated enough hard-learned wisdom to have a very good idea about what it is she wants in a man. It’s not that complicated.

She wants a man who is at least her intellectual equal. She wants a man who practices proper personal hygiene. She wants a man who will stand beside her and support her, in all things. She wants a man she can trust, with her life. She wants a man who is honest—with himself and with her. She wants a man she can respect, look up to. She wants a man who will be passionate about everything, including sex. She wants a man who will make her laugh and also laughs easily himself. She wants a man who treats everyone as equals—from the wait staff in a restaurant to the president of the bank—always respecting people for WHO they are, not WHAT they are.

See? It’s not such a long list. Today’s woman is wise enough to know she isn’t going to find all of those qualities in one man because if she does, another woman has already married him.