Boris Akunin. Pelagia and the black monk (№ 439186)

It was then that she felt sorry for everyone: New Ararat, both men and women. But there are still more men than women, because the latter can still somehow manage without the former, but men, if left to their own devices, will definitely disappear. Either they go berserk and begin to behave outrageously, or they fall into an attack of lifeless dryness. It is not yet known which is worse.