“The Suffering of Married Businessman Tadano” is a one-shot written and illustrated by Kumagorow, a prolific artist from Japan. His work is both familiar looking, while defying good explanation or categorization. The rendering quality and choices of panel framing show even a novice consumer he’s a pro. There’s narrative elements built into the viewer’s framing of the characters, and small details which tell more about each man and what they are experiencing.
Sexbod: Homer Simpson
Never mind that he’s fat, unmuscled, and bald. Homer Simpson doesn’t know he doesn’t conform to beauty standards and receives exclusively positive reinforcement from his sole sex partner, and so he lives a life akin to Adam’s; free from sexual shame and stigma.
5 Keys to Reduce Shame and Amp Up Penis Pride
Viewing your own penis as a key to connection with others is the crux of learning to be proud of it. Because it holds so much potential and so much power for you. Even if you never meet another penis in real life to share arousal and generate friction and pleasure together, you are part of something larger than you, and are accepted into it wholly, just as you are.
Practicing these steps, and making intentional time to take your clothes off and touch and stimulate your genitals is how you learn to love them. They bring only joy and pleasure into your world, no matter their size or shape.
Story Time: “Neal ‘n’ Unk” by Lord Iron
Lord Iron’s got a vintage Handjobs tale with all the hallmarks of the stories we love here: exploration, joy, connection, and consent. While lots of the stories in classic Handjobs issues go unattributed or are credited to single first name authors who are never heard from again, a handful of illustrators also authored the many […]
What is sex?
outside our shelled understanding of what it means, and pursue it in whatever form we like, as long as we aren’t causing active harm to others.
Words are Important: The Accepted Shame of Calling Genitals “Privates”
There is no time or situation where “privates” is the best choice of word, and the power that it possesses to reinforce learned cultural shame about our genitals, and the unacceptability of our sex parts, is transparently dangerous.