2011-06-01

An SMBC comic titled "FAILED ABSTINENCE SLOGANS:". A bespectacled man in a light blue T-shirt printed with a red "no" circle-and-slash symbol stands gesturing while addressing several small children seated on the floor before him, like a classroom speaker. His speech bubble reads: "I don't need friends with benefits when I have HANDS with benefits." The aftercomic (votey) is a black-and-white close-up of the same man, now looking irritated and raising one hand, with a wide-eyed child beside him; he says, "Don't look at me like that! You knew this was just a sex thing." The joke is a crude masturbation pun framed as an inappropriate abstinence presentation to kids, with the votey doubling down by having him address a child as a jilted lover.