"Yeah, some women were offended; they said 'How could you do a cover like that?'" Jacklin remembers, sounding annoyed.

"If they don't like it, then they have no sense of humor, really," Stillman adds. "We're pretty blunt," Jacklin says.

BLUNT ISN'T exactly the word for much of the humor in the text itself. Crude, maybe, or perhaps gross. Styled as a basic "women's literature" textbook, Titters 101 is the image of the abused high school volume, in which every kind of girl wrote notes to her friends and herself. With underlinings in blue and hand-written scribblings in the margins, the book tries its damnedest to give the illusion of being used. Starry-eyed, worldly wise, crude and prude alike have scrawled in the margins. A sampling:

Mrs. Mel Gibson

Caryn Gibson

Caryn Bleckstein-Gibson

Caryn B. Gibson

Caryn Bleckstein-Gibson

Mel&Caryn Gibson

Caryn&Mel Gibson

Mr.&Mrs. Bleckstein-Gibson

Help!!! What's this about?

Two women have escaped from their cruel Italian husbands who keep them in chastity belts.

Soooo--can they have ORAL SEX?

SOME OF THE better writing, though, lies in the "texts" themselves. The parodies of Helen Gurley Brown and of Jack Kerouac (in the form of Camille Cassidy Cassady, who writes On the Rag) are particularly funny, because the humor is aimed more at the society that fostered Cosmopolitan and the Beat generation than at specific female stereotypes.