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Some guys do things the same all their lives. Women too. We mimic our parents. My mom bought me plain white stretch briefs as underwear all through my childhood, so when I grew into an adult, I bought them too. Little did I know what a fashion sin I was causing.

Midlife, I met a woman who I really liked and vice versa. She explained to me that men don’t wear white briefs. At first I did not believe her (I grew up in the rural south). I am not an avid reader of GQ Magazine. She asked me to take off my briefs. “Now we’re talking”, I thought. But then she said, “We’re finding you something that looks decent, those are awful”. I almost cried.

In the car on the way to the store all kinds of thoughts went through my head. I had not dated in awhile. Was this what dating was like now? The woman changes you from the toes up, starting at the lower-mid parts? We went to a department store and the next thing I knew we were checking out with all kinds of colorful bikini briefs, tight boxers, loose colorful boxers, and anything that looked and felt good. All I could think was, “But the public is not going to see these unless I decide one day to become a flasher”, and that was not on my vitae or business plan.

She was a thong collector. This woman loved thongs, not just for their looks but for their comfort. So to be a good neighbor, I went on several thong-hunts and brought home some pretty sexy stuff. This made her happy. And oddly enough, me too. Could nice underwear be the answer to all human issues, I thought to myself. Nahh. But close enough.

Going off the subject a second, allow me to explain that I am a cartoonist. I make my living by selling my licensed goods on such products as funny tees, mouse pads, aprons, hoodies, and other gifts and collectibles. My cartoon is titled Londons Times Cartoons.

Experts tend to feel that adult males and females on the average think about sex a certain numbers of times per day, statistically, but I don’t know the exact statistics. I know it is problematic for me not to at least consider it when thinking about or talking about a thong, especially when worn by an attractive female. Is that wrong? And I’m guessing the same thought may go through the average adult female when thinking about a nice looking guy dressed in attractive undergarments.

Of course nobody, especially a male, wants to be laughed at when his underwear is noticed, especially by a female and even more especially by a female he plans to be his soulmate.

So I decided, that since, to most of us, sex is fun, and one has to admit its a little funny, why not make it both with something fun and funny, so I started manufacturing my cartoons on thongs and men’s boxers. Not only funny but sexy ones.

A Thong In My Heart has been created online. I opened it last night and orders are already coming in. It sells my cartoon thongs and boxer shorts. People really seem to like them and I’m getting orders and nice emails.

I was going to call it “A Boxer In My Heart” but for some reason I felt it would go over like “A Stint In My Heart”.

The offbeat cartoon thongs and boxers, to my knowledge, are the first of their kind on the market and the topics of the cartoons range from famous rock stars to dogs to love and romance.

And I started thinking to myself, “Now this is what I really want for Valentine’s Day. Cartoon boxers. I wonder if she wants a cartoon thong. To thong or not to thong, that is the question.

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