For 12 years, Robert Dubac has been plumbing the depths of the male mind with his show The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?, which premiered in Denver in 1995.

Now Dubac moves into new territory with Robert Dubac's Male Intellect: The 2nd Coming, in which he looks into issues beyond gender. The characters who populate his mind include Uncle Bobby, who "shows up to expose the media for using Pavlov to breed ignorance," and The Colonel, who "levies a stupid tax on our common sense while ragging on religion for taking the 'fun' out of fundamentalism."

We still wanted to know about the whole male-female thing he's built his career on. So we asked.

Rocky: Since you moved to Telluride, have you noticed different dynamics between the sexes?

Dubac: The girls don't shave their legs as often, but the sexual dynamic which was the basis of the first show, the reason that thing is so successful, it doesn't matter what language, what strata you are, it kind of cuts through all the noise. When you're talking men and women, it's pretty much the same.

Rocky: So what do women want?

Dubac: What women want is a paradox, so it really doesn't matter what they want. When they get it, they want something else. Honesty is probably the most important thing to a woman, unless it's the truth about her; then it's not as important.

Rocky: Aren't men the same way?

Dubac: Women would rather be cherished, and men would rather be respected. Essentially, if you philosophically break it down, it's the same thing, but the way it's achieved, you go through different points. I think maybe the roads to get to those are different, but the end result is the same.

Rocky:You've been doing the first show for 10 years. What have you learned during that time?

Dubac: It taught me what not to be as a man. There's nothing wrong with a guy in his 20s being a complete kind of bonehead, but to hang onto that when you're older, to me, is a little pathetic. So when we idolize a guy like Jack Nicholson and Hugh Hefner and even a guy like Bill Maher, as progressive as he is in his performing, his personal life is still a mess.

A lot of people talk about the emotional stunting when you start drinking or doing drugs, and then when you stop, you're still at that emotional level where you started. It's this addiction that a lot of men get rewarded for, for being the guy who puts a lot of notches in his belt. That's all part of the learning process when you're younger, but when you see these older guys do it and they get rewarded for it, I think you've got these guys who are still at the basic emotional level they were when you first (had sex).

Robert Dubac's Male Intellect: The 2nd Coming

• When and where: 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, through Aug. 28, Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St.

• Cost: $15 to $30

• Information: 303-623-0524

Lisa Bornstein is the theater critic. bornsteinl@RockyMountainNews.com or 303-954-5101