stinkhorn

A four-panel comic. In panels 1 and 2, an orange-haired man and a dark-haired woman lie together in bed. The man asks, "Do you think... do you think God's cool with all the weird stuff we do in bed?" The woman replies by asking if he's familiar with Phallus impudicus, the common stinkhorn, in the Phallaceae family of fungi. She explains that they look exactly like dicks popping out of the ground, their heads filled with sticky goo, but they smell like death. She concludes, "The Lord be-dicked his whole creation," then asks, "Are you familiar with the Clitoria genus?" The joke: God built sexual and phallic imagery into nature itself, so He's hardly bothered by what they do in bed. Votey aftercomic: the man, now standing alone holding a glass and looking unsettled, says, "I'm getting more uncomfortable with the fact that God is all-seeing."