Gene Weingarten is a nationally syndicated humor columnist and a Pulitzer Prize–winning staff writer for The Washington Post. He lives in Washington, DC. Gina Barreca is a professor of feminism and English literature at the University of Connecticut and a columnist for The Hartford Courant. She is the author of They Used to Call Me Snow White, But I Drifted, and four other books. The authors have never met.
Contents
Introduction The Phlogiston Theory of Sexual Relations, or Why This Book
Will Change Your Life
1 Sex and the Single Cell: How It All Began
2 It's Not Merely Amusing -- It's Historical
3 Are You Male or Female? (Don't Be So Sure)
4 Men and Women Are Funny. Just Not to Each Other.
5 Pulp Friction
6 Cooking, Washing, and Irony
7 You and I Make Whee
8 Why We Are Screwed: The Inordinate Importance of Sex
9 The Body Impolitic
10 Why Do Fowls Fall in Love? (A Treatise on Desire)
11 Marriage: It Takes Two to Tangle
12 Infidelity: Get Out Your Hanky. And Your Panky.
13 Playing Dumb: Our Secret Pleasures
14 The Joy of Sexism (Part I -- Jokes That Offend Women)
15 The Joy of Sexism (Part II -- Jokes That Castrate Men)
16 A Short Commercial Break
17 Sports, Penises, and Other Extremities
18 Compatibility: Be Careful with That Match
19 Is Your Relationship Going Anywhere?
20 Movies: A Disagreement of Cinematic Proportions
21 Bathroom Humor
22 C'mon, Baby -- What Are You Afraid Of?
23 It's the Money, Honey (Part I -- The Challenge)
24 It's the Money, Honey (Part II -- The Test)
25 Fighting Like Cats and Doggerel
The Final Chapter Until We Meet Again
