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The task set for the knight in the Wife of Bath's Tale was to find out "What thyng is it that wommen moost desiren." We forget what he came up with, but the question seems to present itself anew to each generation of men. What do women want from men? Once it was the rugged Clark Gable type breaking down the bedroom door. Then it was the empathetic New Man, with his pack of Kleenex ever handy to wipe away compassionate tears. After him came the "metrosexual," equipped with hair dryer and exfoliant. The latest fad in definitions of acceptable masculinity is encompassed by the term "ubersexual." The ubersexual male ...