Courting Disaster, my weekly comic about sex, love, and relationships updates every Friday. You'll laugh your pants off.

This week's question...

Q: As a Male who's into bondage as a submissive, I have a tough time bringing up my kink. How does a guy bring up the fact that he wants to be tied up and/or pegged by a woman?

Don't answer here... go on over to the CD site and offer some advice.

Courting Disaster, my weekly comic about sex, love, and relationships updates every Friday. But sometimes I get to back-logged with reader questions, I have to double-up. For the next couple of weeks, I'll be featuring a bonus question on Wednesdays until I catch up.

I am 20 years old, and I have been on-and-off with a girl for 4 years now. Recently things had started to look really good, but all of a sudden she stopped messaging me during the day. Whenever I call her at night, she says she really cares about me -- and I know she does. It's just that she can be very inconsiderate. We have talked about it before but nothing changes.

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It's time for another Tales from the Con. TFTC is a new comic that Chris Giarrusso and I are creating for the Emerald City Comic Con (Mar. 30-Apr. 1).

Courting Disaster, my weekly comic about sex, love, and relationships updates every Friday. You'll laugh your pants off.

This week's question...

Q.: I recently got out of a long term relationship (8 months ago). I started dating and found a girl I had/have strong feelings for. We hit it off rather fast, but when I invited her out to meet my friends/coworkers, she paused and told me she really doesn't want a full-on relationship. She then said I was just really good in bed and fun to hang out with. She just wanted to keep doing that, but without the whole meet-my-friends-and-parents part. She also recently got out of a long-term relationship only 2 months ago. I'm going along with this hoping its only going to take time for her to warm up to the idea.

Don't answer here... go on over to the CD site and offer some advice.

Since the Los Angeles city council voted to mandate condom-use in porn films, there has been talk of the adult-film industry leaving California. Unfortunately, the only other state in which filming porn is legal is New Hampshire. And it's way-too-cold enough up there even when you keep your clothes on. So that leaves the porn industry in a quandary. Since the preference is to, "shoot" (as they say in the movie business) without condoms, I'd like to advance the radical theory that Philadelphia should become the new heart of smutty cinema.

(1.) Sure it's illegal. So is parking in the median in South Philly. Fuggedaboutit.

(2.) Oh gosh, where to start? Vince Fumo supposedly strong-armed donations for charities that he allegedly benefitted from personally. And didn't Milton Street force his way into a Democratic primary -- to run against his own nephew -- despite a lack of the proper amount of ballots and a possible residency dispute? I guess what I'm saying is, Philadelphia is the perfect home for an industry that seems obsessed with big dicks.

(3) What's porn without bad 70s funk? "Bow-chicka-wow-wow"...? We wrote that!

(4) The city's motto: "The city that loves you back" really means something now.

(5) The Catholic Church has announced the closings of 48 of its schools in Philadelphia. That's gonna mean a surplus of schoolgirl uniforms.

(6) Bondage experts? Look no further that the thousands who spend every morning tied up on the Schuylkill Expressway.

(7) Parodies are hot in porn right now -- with moves like "Not Bewitched," "Not Three's Company," and "Not Married With Children." Meet our football team, "Not going to the Super Bowl." (Part Eight.)

(8) John Bolaris is available.

(9) Chopped beef, onions and cheese. Now that's a threesome.

(10) And I'm not just talking about straight porn, either. This is the City of Brotherly Love.

I think I speak for all Philadelphians when I say welcome -- welcome! -- to Our Fair City. And don't worry about the Business Privilege Tax. You guys are used to getting screwed, right?

If you're a reader of PvP, then you're probably familiar with Scott's father, Frank. He's been featured in several cameo appearances in his son's comic, and has been the subject of several of Scott's blog posts.

I met Frank in San Diego during Comic Con in 2010, and got to know him a little bit. And I can personally vouch for the fact that he's every bit as genuine and friendly and funny as he seems through Scott's eyes. He's a dyed-in-the-wool sci-fi affectionado and a proud, proud father. So seeing him experience Comic Con with his son was a really happy occassion.

You know that Scott's father, Frank, suffered a stroke last year. Thankfully, his recovery has been swift and remarkable. As Scott mentioned on his blog, he spent a little quality time with his dad at the first of the year. And during that time, Frank shared an idea for a comic with his son.

"Do you want me to draw that, pappa?" asked Scott.

"Nah. That one's better for Brad," he replied.

Scott texted me the gag. I liked it for its breezy 'Humorama' tone, and I texted back that it would be on my drawing board soon.

So today, you have a special, bonus Courting Disaster. Drawn by Yours Truly and written by the remarkable Frank Kurtz. Enjoy.

As an added bonus, since I'm back-logged with reader questions, I have to double-up. For the next couple of weeks, I'll be featuring a bonus question on Wednesdays until I catch up. Here's the first...

Hi. I'm a man in my mid 20s, and I haven't had a date in a few years. It seems that my main problem is that I don't know how to approach someone I don't know. This became painfully obvious recently while I was trying to find a dance partner during my cousin's wedding dance.

Every time I got anywhere near any of the young women there, they were so engrossed in conversation with each other that it was impossible for me to greet them without interrupting them. I tried approaching some of the women, but they were always huddled together chattering with each other, so the only way for me to talk to any of them would have involved standing awkwardly close behind some of them. I didn't have any opportunities to say anything more than "Hi" or "Excuse me", and when I said those, they didn't show signs of hearing me at all.

I've read that at parties it's smart to seek out people who are hanging out by themselves, and talk to them. There was really only one girl I found who was silent, but the first few times I looked at her, she looked away from me and quickly left the vicinity, as though I made her uncomfortable, so I didn't bother talking to her, and later on in the evening she continued to avoid me anyway.

I came up with an idea that I thought was pretty smart. The idea was to ask the bride, my cousin, to introduce me to her friends, because obviously she knew a lot of people there and everyone wanted to talk to her that night. My idea proved utterly ineffective because she was running back and forth all night to talk to everyone. I didn't even know where she was half the time, and I didn't get a chance to say more than "Hello" to her until after midnight, four full hours after I began trying to talk to her. She introduced me to four of her friends who were just leaving, and while I was making sure I had all their names straight, my cousin disappeared on me, so I left. I spent the majority of the night sitting with relatives in their 50s and 60s, and a cousin and his girlfriend who were about my age. The latter two seemed to feel sorry for me. I only danced twice that night, both times with relatives.

So, what my question is, what all should I have done differently? Granted, wedding dances are as far from my milieu as anything can be, and maybe they're not a good situation in which to meet people. But I really have similar problems in all settings, and I would like to date more often. I need your help!

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Courting Disaster, my weekly comic about sex, love, and relationships updates every Friday. You'll laugh your pants off.

This week's question...

Q.: There's a lady in the next office that I'm attracted to, and we're both single, and there's no office policy prohibiting relationships between co-workers. The problem is that she's a smoker and I'm a militant non-smoker. I can't help it, but I'm attracted to her. Should I try and date her and ask her to stop smoking?

Don't answer here... go on over to the CD site and offer some advice.