When Only Two Can Play This Game was first published in the early 1970s in Britain and America, booksellers couldn't decide where to categorize it. Some placed it in the philosophy section, others in poetry, some sorted it alongside technical books on psychology, and still others classified it as fiction. The book revolves around a retold love affair with a student that begins blissfully and ends tragically, revealing that the intellectual differences between the parties are even greater than the physical ones. It turns out that these correspond to the cultural differences between East and West, which Western science systematically led us to ignore and forget. According to the author, Western civilization is founded on a double degradation of the female gender.