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[Caught in the Net] Comical

If a picture is worth a thousand words, that means if I could find just the right two-fifths of a picture, I could finish my whole column in record time! But, because I believe in going above and beyond in terms of providing value, I’ll point you to several complete and uncut pictures instead. Funny pictures, even!

The kerfluffle over the recent ill-conceived (if arguably well-intentioned) Open Source Boob Project could prompt a long discourse here about sexual spaces, personal boundaries, the strange assumptions many men make, and so on, and you can follow the link above if you want to read some things in that vein (plus a full overview of the whole strange affair). Me, I’ll just do as a few others I saw online did when faced with such a messed-up situation, and point to this classic Bob the Angry Flower comic about the male obsession with mammaries. Pretty much sums it up, yeah.

Publishing industry blog Galleycat recently hosted a contest to caption a naughty New Yorker-style cartoon of a nude couple skydiving in, um, let’s say “intimate tandem.” The caption “Do you think we have time for one more?” won, and it’s not bad, though the science geek in me likes “Well, sorry, but it takes me longer than 32 feet per second squared to come!”

This instructional chart of “Sexual Positions (for the lonely and the loveless)” covers a whole range from the practical to the sublime to the disturbing, illustrating such masturbatory methods as “The Microwaved Melon,” the “Mary Lou Retton,” and “The Ball Pit at the Chuck-E-Cheese” (the last is rather advanced, of course).

Something Positive is one of my favorite webcomics, and it tends toward character-driven arcs, but every once in a while writer/artist Randy Milholland busts does a great single-panel comic. Most famous, perhaps, is his D&D-style stat sheet for Redneck Trees, which feature a unique combat method known as “Improved Anal Plundering.” More recently, he had a comic about research suggesting a link between frequent masturbation and a reduced incidence of prostate cancer which covers the subject far more amusingly than any news article I could link.

Finally, an installment of xkcd, “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language,” about fun with mistranslations of the Kama Sutra, always a favored topic around these parts.

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