Man-Trap

A self-styled woman-hater prides himself on rules to avoid matrimony but finds his convictions battered by a neighbor and a scientist's invention that generates a controllable adhesive force between people. He meets resistance, mocks her appearance and intentions, and repeatedly attempts to escape as the engineered attraction drags him back into closeness and comic entanglement. The narrative examines the collision of technological experiment and personal prejudice, playing out as a farce about desire, consent, and the ease with which rigid attitudes are undermined when physical forces — literal and social — are altered.