It would be almost impossible for women to manipulate men into acting in the ways women want them to if it wasn't for men's desire for sex with women. And because most men are thirsty in one way or another, this tilts the scale in women's advantage. The need for sex is so strong in most men that it's probably the reason most of them willingly allow women to basically enslave them.

A great example of this in relation to this sub is when any one suggests that men should stop chasing women. How both men and women react to this suggestion is very interesting because they both generally are against it. The women are against it (generally speaking) because they know that men not chasing them would mean that they (women) would have to put in more effort, and most men are afraid that if they don't chase then women won't pay any attention to them, and ofcourse the point is that the attention is just a gateway to sex, or atleast the possibility of it.

In a relationship, whoever has the least developed sex drive has more control over the other person, and in most cases the person with the less developed sex drive is the woman, which allows women to use sex to get men to jump through hoops. Ofcourse men could learn to suppress their sex drive like women have (through social conditioning) and therefore be less susceptible to manipulation, but most men aren't interested in this. In fact, most men actually like their sexual dependency on women. It gives their empty lives meaning.