Let's talk about sex...

I have talked about violence in comics a lot and written comics that have violence but let's say something about the fun stuff, right?

for some reason we have one or the other, either no sex at all or just sex and no story.

I am not a hypocrite, no I am a healthy straight man. I have read x-rated comics a-bundle, far less than non-sex comics as I prefer a plot.


No, really. No.


"Isn't it hot in here?" isn't a plot.


I have actually think about sex in comics and the divide. Either there is no sex at all or it goes full-on porn(unfortunately mostly badly drawn and worse written trite bad porn. Yes, there are qualities that too)


It must be the subject matter itself. Most past-adolescent people have experiences in sexual activities.

Sadly not all have any other living humans present...but it explains a lot about many artsy autobiographical comics.

You see most comics are about what their creators know about / are interested of.


And while few of us(thankfully) have first-hand experience about violence, about fights, muggings not to mention war or turning into werewolf while trying to stop advancement of oncoming zombiehorde.


You have to use your imagination, even if the situation is something you wouldn't really want to experience yourself in real life.


And then there are things we think about quite often.

Those are things we would like to experience, yes please thank you very much.

As with violence sex is often just something used instead of actual story. And used solely because of itself.

Another reason is that sex is something very personal, scary and dangerous.

But it is dangerous in whole different way than say fist- or firefights. And while some of us know about the battles that molded the shape of history there is no doubt in my mind that whole another sets of curves have shaped history at least as much.

In the quiet moments, before, during or after.

You see sexuality has it's primal side but it's tender side too. It's a mess of emotions mixed with coarse lust and sensitivity. Not an easy act to convey well.

And for many the chase is better than the catch. Same is seen in many forms of fiction, the stories end when they get each other or end up separated. The end.
So easy compared to real life.

There have been tries, besides Alan Moore's and Melinda Gibbes's Lost Girls , but very few and too seldom. (oh Cthulhu, I sound like the nitwits: "they mix adult with sex and violence, so childish" when that is not the case. Adult is adult, boring is boring.)

Just wondering why it is. I never have seen relationships boring, but 95% of all comics and 99% of "serious" comics about it are utter waste. They have the emotional scale of a soapopera. With worse acting. And the biggest problem I have with the "serious" comics is that especially in those 99% the soapopera is all you get, there is nothing more.

the basis for the rant is that I try to give characters that I have some sort of personal life and therefore have to think about sexual side too. I live with a smart beautiful woman whose mind intrigues me and whose body I lust. That tells something about me.

Mainly that I am luckier than I should be.

But I never have went for the easy way out. I want comics to be rich in the same way life is.



And that requires to deal with these matters too.

And what an intriguing thing it is. Have you guys read classical lit? Homer's Odyssey? All the monsters there in and loads of good old love and lust. Sirens, Circe, Calypso and of course the suitors of Penelope.

And remember this was after the trojan war, the ten year war mostly attributed to elopment of Paris and Helen, mainly to Helen.


Which is a bit unfair, after all it all began because Zeus just couldn't stay faithful and had flings.
He just had better PR.



My main gripe is that like Clemenceau said: war is too serious a matter to be left to the military, sex is important to be left for pornographers.

(thou having done research on the subject that world is quite interesting one. As in filled with stories way interesting)

So it's a warning. I need to add sex and romance in my scripts.

And hell yes this post gave me ample excuse to post sweet pics.


Deal with it.