SOURCE: "Sex in Comic Cuts," in The Times Educational Supplement, No. 3404, September 18, 1981, p. 27.

In the review below, Heeks notes Mayle's nonmoral stance and light approach to sexuality in We're Not Pregnant.

Penis size may not matter, as Peter Mayle assures us [in We're Not Pregnant], but book size does, as reading surveys show, and one foot square isn't the most convenient size for a handbook on birth control. It was presumably chosen to match Peter Mayle's other light-hearted treatments of sexual matters, Where did I come from? and What's happening to me? both directed to younger age groups. Now, "moving up the age ladder", as the publishers say, we reach the next aid to sexual progress, an illustrated guide to birth control. Assuming that the outsize page broken by jokey cartoons is right for one of these titles, it is unlikely to be suitable for all three, intended...