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By Noa Abarbanel & Amitai Sandy (Dimona Comix Group)
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This odd little book crossed my desk recently, so I thought I’d share it with you — although I genuinely don’t really know if I got it or not. I ought to warn you now though, that if frank discussion of sexual topics gives you the screaming Heebie-Jeebies, you might want to stop reading any second now. The book is both frank and graphically uncompromising, although this is an earthily humorous story rendered in full colour illustrations by Amitai Sandy in the loose and stylish manner of alternative cartoonist Lee Marrs.
Shirley Marchevsky is a progressive young woman in present day Israel with a full life, many friends and lots to do. She is also a girl on a mission.
As a sexual libertarian, she has lots of intimate partners but she is still looking for her own special Mr Right. Would that be a certain type? A specific ethnicity? A certain form of physicality, perhaps? Not really.
Shirley’s difficulties stem from her heart-felt belief that sex is good and should, above all other things, be fun. Sadly she often expresses that belief in inappropriate if not outright off-putting behaviour such as wilfully breaking wind at the most intimate of moments, substituting a pet’s mouth for her own when her partner is unable to focus his eyes, and generally laughing at the most intense moments. There can’t be a man alive who can keep … concentrating… when his partner is chortling, guffawing and doing an uncanny impression of a Whooppee Cushion. Talk about performance anxiety!
What she wants is a guy who also believes that mutual punch-lines are much more important than mutual climaxes. She’s tried it without the clown act but it’s just not as good. Somewhere out there must be a man who thinks and feels as she does. Does she find him? Well, I’ve been pretty explicit thus far but I even I have my limits. Best if you find out for yourself.
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