A: Good question. I think part of what happened is, I ended up moving it onto the back burner to focus on other things on the site (like the Chick Dissections -- which are more popular -- and political stuff). And then I needed the back burner for something else, so I moved the Gonterman stuff onto the counter, and then into the fridge when it cooled. And then I needed the fridge space, so I wrapped it up and put it in the freezer.

The Gonterman Dissections ARE fun to do, but in a way it feels like a lot less of a challenge to pick on him -- a guy who arguably has some form of autism, from the look/tone of his art and writing, and the fact that he's in his thirties and obsesses about people not liking his shitty comics -- than to go after Chick, who is an extremely ignorant adult without any learning disabilities. I'll probably come back to the Gonterman stuff at some point, I'm sure, but I don't think I can really do it too often without feeling like I'm bashing the handicapped.

I'll try to do another one soon.

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A: Well, A and A,

For starters, you need to establish some clear boundaries with your boyfriend, since weasels are stupid animals that -- try as one might -- will never develop enough of a comprehension of English or any human language for us to be able to get them to understand and obey house rules and clean up after themselves. Your boyfriend is going to have to wrangle the things and deal with their messes. If there are places you don't want the weasels to be, then tell him you don't want him to let them into those places. You kind of have to train him to train the weasels. But be patient, because it won't happen overnight.

The humping's a bit trickier, because despite your boyfriend's best efforts, it's going to be hard to contend with mammalian biological instincts. Even humans have problems with this, and we have these big, bulbous brains that are supposed to help us be rational. It's not like he can give them a stern talking to and they'll learn to control themselves. But he should definitely help pry them off your leg or wherever when they start getting aggressive like that, instead of laughing. I mean, sure, it's funny maybe the first couple times, but come on, dude, just stop them.

To try to prevent it from happening in the first place, you can apparently buy "hump toys" for weasels and other animals, and presumably, if the theory holds true, they'll be more inclined to hump the doll than your leg or arm or whatever else. Try buying them a cheap plush weasel or something and see if you can train them to go after that instead. You might even be able to find some weasel pheromones to put onto the doll to draw them to it even more.

On the whole, I'm mostly opposed to withholding sex as a form of punishment. In part, it doesn't seem like a good idea to remove one relatively important element of a healthy relationship when you feel like there's an issue with another important element. If you find you have, for instance, communication issues, you need to actually work out those issues, not create other wedges between you and your partner as a kind of "workaround".

Now that you're all living together, dealing with the weasels is going to have to be a mutual effort. He can't babysit the things all the time, and shouldn't be expected to, but he does need to understand that you need his support, and that they are his pets and thus his responsibility, and that you have a right to not have to deal with them all the time.

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A: Very carefully.

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A: You can't pick your family but you can decide how you interact with them. The truth of the matter is, we interface differently with different people in our lives, and we have to deal with them on an individual basis. While it would be nice if you could be as open with his parents as you are with yours, the truth is, you probably can't be. You can try giving it a shot and explaining to them from the heart that you really care about each other and that it's unrealistic to think that two humans in a relationship won't be having sex with each other (because that's kind of what we're designed to do), but if they're throwing a fit over a condom wrapper belonging to two people in their mid-twenties, you're probably not going to convince them.

If you come to the conclusion that they simply cannot deal with two consensual adults engaging in intercourse, and your boyfriend is unwilling to be truthful with them, then by all means LIE. Tell them that after you saw how upset it made them, you stopped having sex. This requires you to be a little better about disposing of and hiding things so that if your boyfriend's parents decide to root around in your garbage like rodents or go pawing through your sock drawers, they won't find any evidence.

Sometimes dishonesty is the most diplomatic policy.

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