Breakpoint has an interesting commentary on this topic

" . . .In an essay about HBO's Sex and the City, Lee Siegel of the New Republic noted that the show's creators were gay men. This led him to suspect that the promiscuity on the part of the female characters was really "an ingenious affirmation of a certain type of gay-male sexuality," which is notoriously promiscuous.

Siegel called the popular show "the biggest hoax perpetrated on straight single women in the history of entertainment." Single women who saw themselves in the relationships and anonymous sex portrayed on the screen were actually watching what was a justification for the gay men who produce the show.

The same thing may be happening in Desperate Housewives. Like Sex and the City, its creators are also gay men. It's altogether likely that the show's misgivings about marriage and family life reflect the creators' own concerns. . . ."

http://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=14940

I'm happy to admit that I have never watched a single episode of "Desperate Housewives" or "Sex and the City."

I usually watch worn out PBS re-runs of the BBC's "Keeping up Appearances" and "As Time Goes By" during that timeslot.