virginity

A six-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A bald, bearded father in round glasses holds up a ring and tells his daughter, "Daughter! You will wear this purity ring. It signifies that you will remain a virgin until marriage." Panel 2: The daughter, a young woman with a brown bob, asks, "That applies strictly to vaginal intercourse, right?" Panel 3: The father, sweating, stammers, "I... uh... well..." Panel 4: The daughter says, "Because there are many forms of virginity, each of which can only be preserved by a ring of some kind." Panel 5: The father says, "Wow, kid. Where'd you get all this jewelry?" Panel 6, captioned "Later...": Exterior of a building with a sign reading "PAWN SHOP," with the daughter's off-screen voice in a speech bubble saying "The Lord shall provide." The joke: she's exploited the purity-ring logic to amass jewelry and pawned it for cash. Votey (aftercomic): An empty hand-drawn panel with the caption "Panel 2 can be put anywhere in any comic" — a meta gag that the daughter's deadpan "That applies strictly to vaginal intercourse, right?" line works as a universal panel-two insert.