You've Got a Friend: Thoughts to Celebrate the Joy of Friendship Book

This is a book of essays about love, sex, and relationships in the gay girl community. While the majority of the essays were funny, and some were really funny, Brownsey makes a number of really obvious factual errors that (as a college professor) should have known better than to make: sperm are not XX's and XY's (they only carry one of the sex chromosomes, duh), and pheromones have not been shown to have any appreciable impact on humans (see: unsuccessful attempts to incorporates pheromones into perfume). Now, I realize that she was intentionally loose in many of her arguments, but that was sufficiently distracting to me in my OCDness that it interfered with my enjoyment of the book. Also, in the course of covering each of these topics in a humorous way, I felt like the depth of the topics got lost. When it's done well, humor is great in making depth palatable, but, when it's done badly, humor just obscures dept. Brownsey was guilty of the latter.