Sexes: Getting a Headlock on Wedlock

Ralph and Wanda discover that marriage is making a comeback

Ralph: Something's gone wrong in this bookstore, Wanda. I can't seem to find the Personal Growth section. Wasn't it over here between Gay Studies and Amatory Methodologies?

Wanda: This is the 1980s, Ralph. They took out Personal Growth. Some of the space went to Money Management--those five aisles over there--and the rest went to this new section, Interpersonal Realization.

Ralph: Interpersonal Realization?

Wanda: Books on how to save your marriage. On the right are all the books on how marriage is happy and great, and you have to stick with it. On the left are the books on how marriage can...

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