Tame Sex Graphic, San Francisco Bay Guardian 2002

Back in 2002, the San Francisco Bay Guardian (the Bay Area’s much-loved alternative weekly, defunct for years now) published a sex issue. How long ago was 2002? I forget sometimes how far we’ve come as a culture in our attitudes about sex. Even in freewheeling San Francisco, even in the edgy alternative weekly, here’s the oh-so-trangressive graphic they put together for the cover of their online edition:

It turns out I linked to one of their stories when this blog was young. Updating that broken link is how I stumbled over the hilariously anodyne 2002 graphic.