Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2056-2060; Nov. 14-18, 2011
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: akronnick on 15 Nov 2011, 04:37 ---Of course that won't keep her (=Dora, my edit) from losing her shit when she finds out about Marten & Padma. (and she will find out, Hanners is for shit at keeping secrets)
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Given how closely knit group they are, I don't think anyone expects Dora to stay in the dark about this. Also remember how well Dora kept the secret of Faye's dildo shopping. There are no secrets within this group of friends.
I'm a little bit more concerned about what happens, when Elliot finds out. Probably nothing, but a tense moment is quietly looming in the future.
tjradcliffe:
--- Quote from: BryanP on 15 Nov 2011, 02:43 ---Barring some twist where she stays, this can't last
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Then again, what does?
And to quote Robert Charles Wilson: "Just because nothing lasts doesn't mean nothing matters."
I could even argue the opposite: because nothing lasts it matters that we make the most of the time we have. I'm old enough to have a few regrets, and I'm aware that there are mistakes I'm glad I didn't make, but life is not linear. It isn't a matter of "more sex good" or "more sex bad" (and the people invoking herpes are simply hilarious to anyone familiar with the history of the matter [*]). Finding the optimum level of error is one of life's challenges, and I'd say Marten is doing a good job of it. Sex with Padma is the kind of "mistake" he needs right now.
[*] Back before AIDS, in the wreckage of the sexual revolution. herpes became the bugaboo of the chattering classes. It was painful, inconvenient, incurable and embarrassing, and it was EVERYWHERE in the press. Then in the early 80's AIDS became a big deal, and suddenly everyone stopped talking about herpes because they had what they really wanted: a sexually transmitted disease that actually killed people, with the added bonus that it was mostly gay people doing the actual dieing but the risk to straight people was great for fear-mongering. "Heterosexual AIDS" was big news in the '90's, but it never quite happened as predicted. Now that AIDS is a treatable disease, suddenly herpes is once-again the go-to bogeyman of the sexually repressive, many of whom are too young to remember the last go-round. I wonder what they'll do when we cure it? And I wonder--if they are so concerned about it--why they aren't working day and night to cure it, as that would allow everyone to have all that entirely and inherently good sex they're missing out on for fear of herpes (seriously, if the only thing that's wrong with sexual promiscuity is the risk of disease, then sexual promiscuity must be pretty damned good.)
Soban:
Every generation seems to think that they are the ones to invent sex. Uhura (TOS) is not that bad looking either.
Soulsynger:
--- Quote from: Soulsynger on 11 Nov 2011, 05:56 ---
--- Quote from: Sylentknight on 11 Nov 2011, 05:51 ---(However, I do expect that the smile on Marten's face and the bounce in his step to be a dead give-away when Dora sees him. I don't expect her to get mad, just notice.) :laugh:
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Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!-time!
And booty-dance!
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Called it.
Also not the first date. Second at least. :P
Mr. Doctor:
Aaaaawww I found this strip to be very cute. I'm glad for Marten, he deserves some good time even though it might be short.
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