Let the lovin' start

For our Valentine's issue, the news editor asked me and another editor to write some sort of "funny" sex survey. I was hoping she'd ask me to write it -- "Aww, she thinks I'm funny!" -- and I was also dreading she would ask me to write it; I don't like when people ask me to write something and to "make it funny." I can't surprise someone with funny if they asked for funny in the first place. We could just keep "funny" implicit in the request, and then there's no pressure for me to deliver the kind of funny that's expected. Otherwise, it's like organizing your own surprise party. Don't you want to be surprised at your own surprise party? Yes, you do.

Ideally we could just reprint the Might Magazine survey from issue #10, but
A) that'd be plagiarism
B) that survey wasn't very Valentine-y

Fig. 1: Survey from Feb/March 96 issue of Might Magazine

I would like to steal that "Fill in the circle" joke, though.

UPDATE: I wrote the quiz. It's hilarious. It doesn't stand a chance of going in without unfunny baboons in the office tampering with it.

UPDATE 2: People thought it was hilarious, and the quiz went in largely untouched. The ex thought one part was "creepy", but I expect such adjectives from one in her position.