Joyce was off to turn her comic in. Now she is not. If she misses poly-sci class, Becky will know and want an explanation. With two little sis’s to worry about, Sal is heading out without her baseball bat. I can think of absolutely nothing that could go wrong.
thejeff
And I still suspect Liz has some motive for being here other than just a casual visit.
If all you have is a coat, any coat-rack looks like a nailable hammer.
Or something like that.
Rose by Any Other Name
**Begins to tell a very inappropriate story.**
**Pauses**
**Writes this instead.**
He Who Abides
Okay, you can’t put that post and not tell a story.
Marisa Mockery
TELL THE STORY!
Rose by Any Other Name
….
I took my own virginity using an inanimate object.
It was not a coatrack… but of a similar level of absurdity.
I don’t think any further details would be appropriate given the forum. Even that much is pushing it. This isn’t reedit.
@Mods/Willis: If this went too far, my apologies. I wasn’t going to post it, but then requests happened, and I’m nothing if not a sucker for an audience.
Wagstaff
I don’t think it counts as losing virginity unless it’s done with something that’s, at the very least, alive.
Devin
Virginity is an absurd and often harmful construct anyway, why does this matter?
Needfuldoer
Alive and not one of your own appendages, otherwise handy-panky would count wouldn’t it?
DrunkenNordmann
Didn’t “loss of virginity” originally just mean “hymen broke”?
Wagstaff
@Needfuldoer, good point.
@Devin, I actually totally agree with you there.
But, as for people who still feel the need for there to be some kind of standard of virginity for whatever reason, maybe it could help to lower that standard as a kind of step ladder?
eh, whatever
Didn’t “loss of virginity” originally just mean “hymen broke”?
Originally, “loss of virginity” meant marriage, because “virgin” meant “unmarried woman”.
The separation of the concepts of sex and marriage isn’t that old in Western culture.
khn0
There is a character in Boyer D’argens’ “Thérèse philosophe” named “la Barrée” (the Barred), which is unable to lose her virginity due to her having the way barred, thus preventing anything to break the hymen. It is possibly either a depiction of an intersex or a trans person, and surely the main feminist character of this very necessary book from 1748.
khn0
I should add it’s not a sfw book in any way.
Decidedly Orthogonal
NSFW? Is it illustrated? Otherwise, I should think that anyone getting close enough to be offended are way past work boundaries and into personal space.
khn0
It’s been illustrated, also even without this it’s a bit like reading Lady Chatterley or Lolita at work, YMMV but there is a chance your employer’ll know you’re reading porn, even if the title isn’t explicit.
Also work boundaries… while reading a book… we definitely did not work at the same places.
Chris (the other one)
If, by “took your own virginity” you actually mean broke your hymen, then I’m not sure that counts for a very large amount of people, and for those that do, well, that’s a really messed up definition of virginity. It is possible to do, by accident, in many (many, many many) ways that have nothing to do with other humans of any gender.
Wagstaff
Can confirm.
I took a Humans and Sex class (yes, that’s an actual class, and one you can take for GE requirements in California), and it’s been proven that a hymen can be broken by hygiene products or even just by the natural stretching that happens over time.
Deanatay
I’ve read that crotch-intensive physical activity, such as horseback riding, can break the hymen without any penetration at all. A very fragile standard for female ‘purity’.
BBCC
And sometimes if you’re aroused and lubricated enough, it doesn’t break during sex either. It’s supposed to stretch, not break. It often does because it’s small and fragile but it’s not ‘supposed to’. (It’s not supposed to hurt or bleed a lot either. Sometimes it does a little bit, but if it’s a lot, something might be wrong and you might need to talk to a doctor. It could just be bad luck of the draw but it could also be a problem).
RowenMorland
Curse my insatiable curiosity.
Victor
This one time, at band camp…
Decidedly Orthogonal
OK first, and I am sure you’re aware but anyways, you owe none of us anything further, and thank you for sharing what you have. Iff you are comfortable sharing more, I am curious why you phrased or consider it losing your virginity vs breaking your hymen? I mean, I can think of scenarios… LOTS.. of scenarios which despite others’ claims, I would totally classify as losing virginity, (Willis has one above). But if you @Rose, just mean broke your hymen by accident, I’d parrot the rest of the peanut gallery in saying that just breaking the hymen by accident doesn’t count, unless you want to feel that it does.
Rose by Any Other Name
… wow. I did not mean to set off a discussion of this nature.
Ahem.
First off, I was trying to be both funny and avoid being overly graphic or specific. Those two apparently did not combine well.
To the virginity thing, I more meant taking control of my own sexuality and pleasure rather than allowing some outside situation to do so – ie, I didn’t let someone else “take it” from me, I made it my own. That’s how I always thought about it, and I find that idea – of keeping that first experience to myself – to be empowering.
To the object – no, it wasn’t accidental. Very much the opposite. I was very good at improvisational sex toys. I was (and am) a nerd who loves her collectables, and several of them proved to be the correct size and shape that I required (although a bit hard). I eventually discovered this wonderful hairbrush with a rubberized handle that was far gentler and more realistic in texture, but one never forgets one’s first.
I am torn on how to wrap this up, though. Part of me wants to make a sly joke that hints at the specific object, but the last time I tried to be sly, I started this thread. So maybe I should quit while I’m… wherever this is.
Delicious Taffy
Sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do. And sometimes ya gotta do that chair at Big Lots that’s been makin’ eyes at you all day. Or those black curtains with the lace on ’em. Or a rogue handful of candy corn. This is all in the Royal You, of course. Not speculating on Rose’s personal life.
Not sure why everyone else is obsessing over That Specific Detail, though. It feels gross.
151 thoughts on “Copy”
Doctor_Who
Get him excited and he also provides a place to hang an umbrella!
Wagstaff
But remember do remember to take your umbrella, or else you might get wet!
Joshua Kronengold
I don’t think this comic contains that kind of Joyce.
Ana Chronistic
Sarah’s a pushover for li’l sisses
Clif
Absolutely nothing is wrong with this plan and nothing will go wrong.
Clif
Joyce was off to turn her comic in. Now she is not. If she misses poly-sci class, Becky will know and want an explanation. With two little sis’s to worry about, Sal is heading out without her baseball bat. I can think of absolutely nothing that could go wrong.
thejeff
And I still suspect Liz has some motive for being here other than just a casual visit.
Icalasari
Eh, less a pushover, more Joyce of all people skipping class completely borked her brain and now she HAS to know what is going on
RassilonTDavros
…something tells me Ruth/Jason is the next Slip
King Daniel
He is apparently a fuckable coatrack
Doctor_Who
Any coatrack is, if you’re not a coward.
Clif
If all you have is a coat, any coat-rack looks like a nailable hammer.
Or something like that.
Rose by Any Other Name
**Begins to tell a very inappropriate story.**
**Pauses**
**Writes this instead.**
He Who Abides
Okay, you can’t put that post and not tell a story.
Marisa Mockery
TELL THE STORY!
Rose by Any Other Name
….
I took my own virginity using an inanimate object.
It was not a coatrack… but of a similar level of absurdity.
I don’t think any further details would be appropriate given the forum. Even that much is pushing it. This isn’t reedit.
@Mods/Willis: If this went too far, my apologies. I wasn’t going to post it, but then requests happened, and I’m nothing if not a sucker for an audience.
Wagstaff
I don’t think it counts as losing virginity unless it’s done with something that’s, at the very least, alive.
Devin
Virginity is an absurd and often harmful construct anyway, why does this matter?
Needfuldoer
Alive and not one of your own appendages, otherwise handy-panky would count wouldn’t it?
DrunkenNordmann
Didn’t “loss of virginity” originally just mean “hymen broke”?
Wagstaff
@Needfuldoer, good point.
@Devin, I actually totally agree with you there.
But, as for people who still feel the need for there to be some kind of standard of virginity for whatever reason, maybe it could help to lower that standard as a kind of step ladder?
eh, whatever
Originally, “loss of virginity” meant marriage, because “virgin” meant “unmarried woman”.
The separation of the concepts of sex and marriage isn’t that old in Western culture.
khn0
There is a character in Boyer D’argens’ “Thérèse philosophe” named “la Barrée” (the Barred), which is unable to lose her virginity due to her having the way barred, thus preventing anything to break the hymen. It is possibly either a depiction of an intersex or a trans person, and surely the main feminist character of this very necessary book from 1748.
khn0
I should add it’s not a sfw book in any way.
Decidedly Orthogonal
NSFW? Is it illustrated? Otherwise, I should think that anyone getting close enough to be offended are way past work boundaries and into personal space.
khn0
It’s been illustrated, also even without this it’s a bit like reading Lady Chatterley or Lolita at work, YMMV but there is a chance your employer’ll know you’re reading porn, even if the title isn’t explicit.
Also work boundaries… while reading a book… we definitely did not work at the same places.
Chris (the other one)
If, by “took your own virginity” you actually mean broke your hymen, then I’m not sure that counts for a very large amount of people, and for those that do, well, that’s a really messed up definition of virginity. It is possible to do, by accident, in many (many, many many) ways that have nothing to do with other humans of any gender.
Wagstaff
Can confirm.
I took a Humans and Sex class (yes, that’s an actual class, and one you can take for GE requirements in California), and it’s been proven that a hymen can be broken by hygiene products or even just by the natural stretching that happens over time.
Deanatay
I’ve read that crotch-intensive physical activity, such as horseback riding, can break the hymen without any penetration at all. A very fragile standard for female ‘purity’.
BBCC
And sometimes if you’re aroused and lubricated enough, it doesn’t break during sex either. It’s supposed to stretch, not break. It often does because it’s small and fragile but it’s not ‘supposed to’. (It’s not supposed to hurt or bleed a lot either. Sometimes it does a little bit, but if it’s a lot, something might be wrong and you might need to talk to a doctor. It could just be bad luck of the draw but it could also be a problem).
RowenMorland
Curse my insatiable curiosity.
Victor
This one time, at band camp…
Decidedly Orthogonal
OK first, and I am sure you’re aware but anyways, you owe none of us anything further, and thank you for sharing what you have. Iff you are comfortable sharing more, I am curious why you phrased or consider it losing your virginity vs breaking your hymen? I mean, I can think of scenarios… LOTS.. of scenarios which despite others’ claims, I would totally classify as losing virginity, (Willis has one above). But if you @Rose, just mean broke your hymen by accident, I’d parrot the rest of the peanut gallery in saying that just breaking the hymen by accident doesn’t count, unless you want to feel that it does.
Rose by Any Other Name
… wow. I did not mean to set off a discussion of this nature.
Ahem.
First off, I was trying to be both funny and avoid being overly graphic or specific. Those two apparently did not combine well.
To the virginity thing, I more meant taking control of my own sexuality and pleasure rather than allowing some outside situation to do so – ie, I didn’t let someone else “take it” from me, I made it my own. That’s how I always thought about it, and I find that idea – of keeping that first experience to myself – to be empowering.
To the object – no, it wasn’t accidental. Very much the opposite. I was very good at improvisational sex toys. I was (and am) a nerd who loves her collectables, and several of them proved to be the correct size and shape that I required (although a bit hard). I eventually discovered this wonderful hairbrush with a rubberized handle that was far gentler and more realistic in texture, but one never forgets one’s first.
I am torn on how to wrap this up, though. Part of me wants to make a sly joke that hints at the specific object, but the last time I tried to be sly, I started this thread. So maybe I should quit while I’m… wherever this is.
Delicious Taffy
Sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do. And sometimes ya gotta do that chair at Big Lots that’s been makin’ eyes at you all day. Or those black curtains with the lace on ’em. Or a rogue handful of candy corn. This is all in the Royal You, of course. Not speculating on Rose’s personal life.
Not sure why everyone else is obsessing over That Specific Detail, though. It feels gross.
Roborat
Was it at band camp?
powerpowerpow
Yeah, for a second I thought I was missing part of the story, and then I realized the reason is that it may have a big ol’ X-rating slapped across it.
Wagstaff
That’s one reason to suspect so.
Has this kind of foreshadowing of SlipShines happened in the alt-text before?
Opus the Poet
It happened in the regular comic for the Joe-Malaya Slipshine.
Thag Simmons
Them or the Lizbians, and given Becky’s hangups that latter one might be a while
RassilonTDavros
That one’s probably a few years away, yet.
Wagstaff
Which one again?
Thag Simmons
Becky/Dina
Nono
Ah. Liz is gonna be a hurricane of bad influence, huh.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Awwww…. ? why do I feel like Sarah knows Liz is bad news, and is now feeling roped in because Joyce doesn’t know it yet?
RassilonTDavros
I’m really hoping she’s not “bad news” per se, but I’m guessing that Sarah has some reason to think things will go wrong.
Nayann Martinelli
Sarah’s face on panel 4 has a “older sister putting with BS” vibe, or is it just me?
Doctor_Who
I’m an Eldest Sib, I know I’ve worn that expression on many an occasion.
He Who Abides
I’m a Youngest Sibling, and I’ve seen that face before. A lot.
Nayann Martinelli
I can relate to feeling
Needfuldoer
Seems to me like they’ve always had an opposing-personalities, Odd Couple kind of relationship.
Thag Simmons
There is something viscerally upsetting about that alt-text.
Stephen Bierce
It brought to mind a line from the ABC sitcom The Hughleys about towel racks.
Decidedly Orthogonal
agreed. What even is a coa-track anyways?
Clif
The coa in coa-track stands for coming of age.
If it didn’t before, it does now.
Kyrik Michalowski
Oh Sarah, your unwillingness to admit you want to spend time with your little sister is adorable. Maybe they’ll even get a smile out of you.
Also because this series wouldn’t be the same without it: What are they going to miss that is either important or amazing?
RassilonTDavros
If I have the schedule right in my head, the only class Joyce has today is Political Science.
So, simultaneously amazing and horrible, probably. This is Robin we’re talking about, after all.
William Leonard Reese Jr.
. . . I feel like a Fuckable Coat Rack would be bad.
Possible Splinters from poor workmanship/upkeep or wear and tear, every coat rack I;v ever had or seen had **terrible** balance.
Yeah just an all around bad idea.
Wagstaff
Who said it had to be made of wood?
Why not plastic polymers, or smart materials that become soft and stretchy when touching human bodies?
Decidedly Orthogonal
If it ain’t got wood there’s not gonna be much fucking going on.
(sorry, I kid. there’s a literal rainbow of things one can do without wood, but damn this was the joke, and I made it classy, see, cause italics)
Rose by Any Other Name
I mean, I always thought that glass dildos sounded like a bad idea.
Turns out they’re perfectly safe.
Delicious Taffy
Can confirm.
Mr D
TMI?
Keulen
I suppose it depends on how well-made the coat rack is, and what it’s made out of. I did not expect to be discussing how fuckable coat racks might be.
Clif
The things we do for SCIENCE.
Joe Moose
There he is again, in boxers and socks…
Olivia Cheatham
Yeah you are, Jason.
Cattleprod
How long was Jason just standing in the hall with a coat over his head?
Thag Simmons
longer than anyone with dignity would
Delicious Taffy
Lucky for Liz, he’s British.
bleepbloop
If Joyce gets too caught up in showing Liz around, Walky might just get the comic slot by default.