https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-05-11

No alt text

Why is it bad news when mom has a sex life?

Cause she isn't having sex with her son.

(Cookie dough salesmen rubbing their hands together) Yesssss…YESSSSS.

My first thought too. Would've worked better if it was named "babes"

Would.

I thought that too. Then I realised I was on the mums side of life and not the kids.

Or even just "women"

My wife and I are recent empty nesters! The amount of jokes people make about us having sex on the couch is weird. I wonder if I should tell them we didn't wait for the kids to leave to start.

I don't tell them. But now you know.

Normally, yes, but in this context it sounds like an "adult" magazine for the Amish

"Dudettes", for symmetry.

The couch is like the one safe place we currently have.

I think, that's just an extra joke, that the magazine titles are somewhat unusual...

The cigar wouldn't work for me I think

Because it makes people think about their mother having sex with a stranger, and that thought is somehow worse than imagining her with your father. It's just one of those stupid things the human brain gets hung up on even if it's natural and not weird if in different contexts. Isn't the human brain fun?

🫩

Alternatively, both of them reading "dudes". For starters, in most circumstances that's a gender neutral term. And in the other circumstances, who are we to judge?