Week 6

This weeks reading pertained to offensive or sexually explicit comics. It was already really funny to read some of these comic titles, but I was really interested to actually find out what they really meant. I decided to read some comic from the comic book titled Tits and Clits. It seemed pretty straight forward so I didn't have to guess that it would be about women.

These stories all varied in subject matter, drugs, rape, masturbation, and sex with men and women. All of them that I read, though, was from the perspective of a woman. The one I found to be very funny was the one with the mother who just wanted time alone to masturbate. She was constantly interrupted by the phone, her parents, her kids, etc. In the end, she is able to "overcome," but the whole journey to that was just really hilarious.

Another comic from this series was that of drugs, rape, and prostitution. I'm pretty sure the woman who ends up becoming a sex addict was raped and that was what awoke her strong sexual desires (or at least that is what is seemed like to me). What was interesting, though, was that she was able to to take her experiences with men and make money from it. Along with selling herself for money, she also got into the drug trade. In the end she was arrested and rehabilitated into not liking sex anymore...

The other story that was really funny was the one where two women go into the forest and just get naked. I'm guessing the forest was an ideal place to be, considering them being together was looked down upon during that time. They were super casual about a lot of things and the dialogue between them flowed naturally. In the end, they were found by boy scouts, which was even more funny to me.

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