Gene Weingarten is a columnist at The Washington Post and previously worked at the Detroit Free Press, The National Law Journal and as editor of The Miami Herald's Tropic Magazine. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
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
