Gary Lautens won a Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1981 for his hilarious best-selling tour of family life, Take My Family ... Please!
In No Sex Please ... We're Married, Lautens, together with Lynn Johnston, creator of the popular comic strip, For Better Or For Worse, continues to tiptoe around the minefields of suburbia: washing machines that eat only one sock and flooded basements. Lautens keeps his ear close to the crabgrass and comes up with a list of the great questions that plague suburban man: Why is it that he can remember everything about 1956 up to and including the name of the losing coach of the Grey Cup ... yet can't remember the night he proposed to his wife? Why is it that the expensive swimming pool that was installed in the back yard so that the family could beat the heat and avoid crowded beaches is now doing a better business than Lourdes?
Lautens has endured and written about the problems and peculiarities of family life for over twenty-five years. He began writing about his family as a journalist with the Hamilton Spectator in the 1950s and carried the tradition with him to the Toronto Star in 1962.
No Sex Please ... We're Married presents selections of the best of his newspaper columns and provides riotous proof that Lautens has survived every possible family disaster with a smile. How does he do it? Despite the ravages of grubs that ate his lawn, orthodontists who ate his salary, and kids who ate the furniture, he still loves family life.