INTRODUCTION TO PORN

Thomas Francis O'Mara III
4 min readMay 30, 2021

I told you about the time 14 year old Gladys showed the 9 year old, Tommy, the box of pornographic comics hidden on the top closet shelf of her parents’ bedroom…but I have to include a few things I forgot…

The comics were in a hexagon flower-print hat box with a flattened bow on top as I recall….and she had me sit on the edge of her parents’ bed as she struggled to get it down.

Then she sat next to me and opened it up. It had a wonderfully pleasant odor about it…and in that box were many cartoon books of familiar characters: Betty Boop, Li’l Abner, Dagwood And Blondie, Dennis The Menace, and others…

She would pull out each one and flip through them to favorite pages of hers and say: “Look at THIS!” and there would be Betty Boop sucking cartoon tycoon, or Daisy May fondling a horse, or Dennis the Menace’s mom thinking of cock in a thought bubble, and then we looked at every page of the Dagwood and Blondie comic…it was her favorite for some reason.

I’ll describe it bcz I can still see it perfectly clearly:

Dagwood is building one of his famous mile-high sandwiches.

Blondie appears in the kitchen doorway wearing nothing but a see-through neglige’ and fuzzy topped high heel mules…I am totally amazed that anyone could even draw a see-through neglige’…let alone the incredible body of Blondie within and her pose in the…

--

--

Thomas Francis O'Mara III

Born i n Columbus, Ohio, may 12, 1948...Currently living in Venice, CA