pickup-artistry

A SMBC comic. Main panel: four men sit around a table in what looks like a meeting. An older, balding grey-haired man in a suit speaks earnestly to the others, saying: 'Here's a hot tip. You can trick a girl into sex with you by courting her, marrying her, then taking advantage of the fact that intercourse is REQUIRED for procreation.' The other men listen with neutral expressions. A caption beneath reads: 'So far, the Mormons have failed to infiltrate the pickup artist movement.' The joke: the man is pitching deeply earnest, traditional marriage-then-children advice as if it were a sleazy seduction technique, comically out of place at what reads like a pickup-artist gathering. Votey (small aftercomic): a simple black-and-white line drawing of the same man's face in profile, adding: 'That way you get at least 8 sexes.' — playing on the idea that a lifelong marriage yields very little sex, framed absurdly as a numeric payoff.