Dear Diary. I think my libido is coming back. I put my declining interest in sex down to age, but I stopped taking finasteride two months ago and now my sex drive is coming back, so I think it’s the finasteride. But I forgot that having a libido is problematic. When you are a man, it means 1) unless you are strikingly handsome, you can’t just go out and hook up with people like women can and 2) you get erections at unideal moments like in the middle of a gym class or when you’re naked in the men’s locker room. When this happens I count in the Fibonacci sequence in my head to distract myself and try to make my willy go down.

This morning I dropped 1-year-old off at nursery and then I dropped 6-year-old off at school. Then as I was walking back home, I saw her: the latest woman I'm in love with.

Today she was wearing a light pink puffer jacket, tight black yoga pants, and a pair of beat-up old trainers. Her hair is a dirty blonde colour. She was walking to the nursery with her son, her dog, and (unfortunately) her husband.

From behind she doesn't look anything special. But her eyes: she has the biggest, brownest eyes you've ever seen. Her eyes remind me of springtime, of waking up on Easter morning to a big Mars Easter egg. On the attractiveness scale, she's probably a 10/10 just for her eyes alone. Also she has a pretty face.

Then when I got home, I looked out the window there saw a second one: another beautiful girl. (To tell you the truth, I see beautiful girls everywhere. I'm like Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, but instead of seeing dead people, I see unattainable women.) This one was wearing a black long-sleeved cardigan and her blonde hair was spilling down around her shoulders. She was sitting at the reception of the local gym, which is across the road from where I live. I could see her sitting at the computer, looking bored. To be honest, I couldn't see her very well because she was so far away, but I could see she had blonde hair and so my brain filled in the rest of the details for me.

What I don't understand is why women don't rule the world. They're obviously superior to men. Plus they work together, unlike men. The only intrinsic advantage men have over women is superior body strength, which doesn't mean much in a world where mammoth hunting has been replaced with online shopping and the most physical exertion people need to experience is walking to and from their cars.

By all rights, women should be ruling the world by now. And if they don't rule the world yet, then now's their time to take over.

But as far as I can tell, they're not. Maybe it's because men are better risk-takers than women. Maybe it's because of centuries of ingrained social and cultural norms that have historically placed men in positions of power and influence. I don't know.

But what I do know is that I have an erection.