On The Scene: To Find Out Why Men Fall Asleep After Sex, Throw a Party 37065

Last night we hit up Pravda for an hour or so of white wine chatter hosted by Best Life EIC Stephen Perrine. It never takes more than three sips of pinot to forget what party you’re at and why you’re celebrating, so we were sure to write it down ahead of time: we were mingling among a sea of PR types to honor Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?, the new tome by Mark Leyner and BIll Goldberg. Sure, they weren’t giving the the book gratis to any partygoers – you had to buy it! for $14! and it was only in paperback! – but who cares? Men’s Health’s David Zinczenko was there letting his pecs burst through a white button down, which is about all we need to hear to RSVP.

There was Zinczenko’s comparing Men’s Health to Cosmopolitan – they’re both “horny” magazines, which is why he and Kate White are BFFs – New York’s press denizen Serena Torrey showering the bar with glitter (or perhaps it just looked that way; her beauty is blinding), Best Life publisher Mary Murcko ensuring your hand was never without a cocktail (and, should have you two hands free .. well, you get the idea), and authors Mark Leyner and Bill Goldberg hanging on each other’s well-sculpted shoulders. Though it was Arianna Huffington’s arrival – on the arm of Eat The Press chaperone Rachel Sklar – that caused a stir. (Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that Arianna’s dressing like a 24-year-old? And pulling it off?)

Though we expected a room brimming with male model types (or at least industry vets who could pass as former abdominal display cases), we weren’t entirely let down: Pravda’s strawberry martini proved worth the trek into a below-ground lair of air conditioning heaven. Even if we never even caught a glance at the book’s cover.