Dina: I understand, Becky. I too have an intense physical reaction to certain music. There is a particular dinosaur-oriented song that, due to childhood obsession, has been known to provoke me to violence.
It may not have been… pure coincidence… that brought her to mind at that moment. And not a thing to do with the, er, lyrics (?) I think. I’m guessing from the album art she’s a singer, who ever she is.
I mean even when you have some experience of religious sexual shame and the mental anguish you put yourself through because of it, having it spelled out is still rather… urm. Concerning. Like it makes things suddenly make a lot more sense but at the same time it’s fucked.
First step of solving a problem and all that though. If Becky acknowledges it as such at least.
Seriously.
One of my first sexual partners was a smoker, so years later, any time I walked past one of those tobaccos shops, the smell of it made me weirdly horny by association.
I once read an interview with an, uh, “adult film performer”. He strongly recommended against trying to think of something un-sexy to delay orgasm, precisely because you’d eventually start associating that thing with sex.
…you realize, of course, that this is going to lead to a bajillion Kickstarternon-cryptocurrency crowdfunding site commissions of Becky making out with Danny’s poster.
If you look closely you can see that Becky’s freckles don’t move when she raises her shoulder. Suggesting that they are not in fact normal skin blemishes, but that there is an invisible Predator hiding in Dina’s closet.
It is like my tendency of playing MMOs late at night while half asleep now causing me to pavlovially start falling asleep if I play MMOs at any time of the day.
The only solution to which is, apparently, downing an espresso or a can of monster 15 minutes before I start playing
You know the when the new Patreon for this comic add started showing up, I thought it was really weird that Dina had all her hair sticking out of her hat and that weird devious smirk. Realizing that said add was probably drawn after this story line, gives that smirk and Becky’s giant grin and raised eyebrows a whole new disturbing reading. I can’t stop seeing it 🙁
And once again Dina gets a flash of JUST HOW INCREDIBLY FUCKED UP her girlfriend’s (and Joyce’s) upbringing was.
(There are other ways to take her expression, but given how blase Dina is at the prospect of sex and masturbation, my guess is ‘Wait, people tell you to be ashamed of having sexual urges?’ followed shortly by ‘Wait YOU THINK THAT WAS TYPICAL?!’ Very possibly followed afterwards with ‘Excuse me I need to go ask the rest of the hall some very urgent questions to assess how concerned I should be for the rest of humanity.’)
Yeah, don’t expect long comments any time soon thanks to my shoulders acting up again, (more than usual, I mean,) but I’m still checking daily even if I’m only commenting once or twice at most.
Yeah, this is why I had commented that Becky does not understand how outside the norm her sexual hangups are. A LOT of people have issues around sexuality and bodies, etc. But this is a very, very specific series of issues and Becky absolutely only thinks it’s normal because she was homeschooled, and I’m not . . . entirely sure how Dina is going to respond to that.
Between my sex ed consisting of “sex makes babies” And my purity culture upbringing teaching that having a crush was equal to fornication, I actually had no idea what masturbating was.
So I did it with no shame, because it’s pretty natural to discover the ‘nerve endings down there’
If Gawd didn’t want us to masturbate, She would have made our arms shorter. Onan’s sin was not masturbation, it was ruining a good rug (“spilling his seed upon the ground”.)
I think if God had intended us not to masturbate, He would have made our arms shorter. “Hey, I can’t reach nuttin’, c’mere. Hey, gimme a hand, willya, c’mere, c’mere, c’mere. Hey, ya wanna job?”
Pavlov’s dogs were about associating completely unrelated stimuli with a reward so the stimuli on their own were enough to trigger behaviour.
I had only the electrified version of the skinner box in mind, but on checking I found out the more common type was about food rewards as well. So now I see where you are coming from, but I still think this is more similar to Pavlovian conditioning.
While Dina’s a comic example of an ace who’s fine by it, some aces don’t find much enjoyment from masturbation, or even aren’t into it at all. It depends!
like that guy on reddit or something who jerked off in the hall closet for years and now he has a pavlovian response to be turned on by the style of doorknob that was in there
149 thoughts on “Go and Sin No More”
Ana Chronistic
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Gash
Biggest can of worms the triangle smile girl ever opened? Probably!
Doctor_Who
Dina: I understand, Becky. I too have an intense physical reaction to certain music. There is a particular dinosaur-oriented song that, due to childhood obsession, has been known to provoke me to violence.
Becky: Let me guess, the Barney song?
Dina: Not exactly.
Becky: …
Dina: …I hit my daddy with a frying pan.
MisterJinKC
I was going to guess Walk the Dinosaur.
Sirksome
Maybe you just like Rebecca St. James.
jeffepp
It may not have been… pure coincidence… that brought her to mind at that moment. And not a thing to do with the, er, lyrics (?) I think. I’m guessing from the album art she’s a singer, who ever she is.
probskay
the video is in willis’s description of the comic
BarerMender
The lyrics? You mean the “come on my knees” part?
The Wellerman
And so our hero, Dina, faces her challenger — Becky’s Chains of Sunday School.
*plays “Souls” by David Fenn on Becky’s Phone*
AKP
Me too, Dina.
Thag Simmons
very understandable reaction
The Wellerman
Poor Becky!!! ???
Needfuldoer
That frame would make a great Gravatar.
Heather
Yeaaah.
I mean even when you have some experience of religious sexual shame and the mental anguish you put yourself through because of it, having it spelled out is still rather… urm. Concerning. Like it makes things suddenly make a lot more sense but at the same time it’s fucked.
First step of solving a problem and all that though. If Becky acknowledges it as such at least.
Keulen
Yep, Dina’s reaction face is very relatable.
butts
thanks, pavlov
Rose by Any Other Name
Seriously.
One of my first sexual partners was a smoker, so years later, any time I walked past one of those tobaccos shops, the smell of it made me weirdly horny by association.
The Wellerman
? “Neurons that FIRE together, WIRE together”
Fascinating how human brains work like that. ?
Although it takes a few repetitions at the very least for it to work.
Joe therefore had no reason to worry about getting turned on by lizards after his erotic encounter with Malaya and Fuckface.
His rest assured thanks to The Power of Science!!! ?
BarerMender
Now if I could only think why I want to buy something when I walk by a liquor store. I don’t even drink.
Agemegos
Do you suppose that Dina has just been struck by the thought that she could condition herself to be aroused by a chosen stimulus?
Mark
I’m supposing that expression means, “write that down, NOW!”
Wizard
I once read an interview with an, uh, “adult film performer”. He strongly recommended against trying to think of something un-sexy to delay orgasm, precisely because you’d eventually start associating that thing with sex.
True Survivor
I can’t tell if Dina is horrified, shocked, aroused, or concerned, for the hair is in the way. Put it back in your hat. It looks hangery.
Doctor_Who
She wondering if she should go find some Rebecca St. James music, or if this experiment has too many variables already.
Wraithy2773
F: All of the Above.
mrj
Hor-roused.
Thag Simmons
I think it’s a 404 error
Joyfulldreams
WHELP. Okay! This is literally the most explicit answer to my weird questions and assumptions from yesterday.
Becky :C
Rose by Any Other Name
It seems your wish has been granted.
RassilonTDavros
…you realize, of course, that this is going to lead to a bajillion
Kickstarternon-cryptocurrency crowdfunding site commissions of Becky making out with Danny’s poster.True Survivor
If you look closely you can see that Becky’s freckles don’t move when she raises her shoulder. Suggesting that they are not in fact normal skin blemishes, but that there is an invisible Predator hiding in Dina’s closet.
King Daniel
Should we tell the Predator it’s okay to come out of the closet? I mean, it’s 2022, I think it’ll be fine. 😛
True Survivor
Thank you that comment made me chuckle.
Vivvav
You can see half her face through her hair even though that should be impossible. Becky is the anomaly.
Sporky
“…who the hell is Rebecca St. James”
jeffepp
My thoughts, without the expletive. I mean, there was an expletive. Just a different one.
milu
“who the expletive is Rebecca St. James”
King Daniel
“who the different expletive is Rebecca St. James”
JBento
“who in the world is
Carmen SandiegoRebecca St. James?”King Daniel
“why in the world is Rebecca St. James?”
milu
“Where in the world is Rebecca St. James?”
A: in horny jail
maarvarq
Huh. She’s Australian, but I’d never heard of her. Mind you, I’d never heard of Steve Irwin before South Park sent him up the first time.
Mr D
It is like my tendency of playing MMOs late at night while half asleep now causing me to pavlovially start falling asleep if I play MMOs at any time of the day.
The only solution to which is, apparently, downing an espresso or a can of monster 15 minutes before I start playing
StClair
*snore* … not now, killing spiders…
ADLegend21
oh no she gave herself a Pavlovian response to Rebecca St James lmaooooo
True Survivor
You know the when the new Patreon for this comic add started showing up, I thought it was really weird that Dina had all her hair sticking out of her hat and that weird devious smirk. Realizing that said add was probably drawn after this story line, gives that smirk and Becky’s giant grin and raised eyebrows a whole new disturbing reading. I can’t stop seeing it 🙁
Regalli
And once again Dina gets a flash of JUST HOW INCREDIBLY FUCKED UP her girlfriend’s (and Joyce’s) upbringing was.
(There are other ways to take her expression, but given how blase Dina is at the prospect of sex and masturbation, my guess is ‘Wait, people tell you to be ashamed of having sexual urges?’ followed shortly by ‘Wait YOU THINK THAT WAS TYPICAL?!’ Very possibly followed afterwards with ‘Excuse me I need to go ask the rest of the hall some very urgent questions to assess how concerned I should be for the rest of humanity.’)
The Wellerman
It’s so unfortunate, isn’t it?
But oh well. I guess 4.5 billion years worth of happy accidents can only do so much right. ?
With any hope, Dina will be able to save Becky from these AWFUL chains. ?
By the way nice to see you here Regs!!!
*plays “Flow” by Hero on Becky’s Phone*
Regalli
Yeah, don’t expect long comments any time soon thanks to my shoulders acting up again, (more than usual, I mean,) but I’m still checking daily even if I’m only commenting once or twice at most.
The Wellerman
That’s alright. Now that you think of it, my host body’s actually been having some unusual arm problems lately, but no biggie.
Still great to see you here! ?
milu
i hope you get better Regalli <3
Thulcandran
Yeah, this is why I had commented that Becky does not understand how outside the norm her sexual hangups are. A LOT of people have issues around sexuality and bodies, etc. But this is a very, very specific series of issues and Becky absolutely only thinks it’s normal because she was homeschooled, and I’m not . . . entirely sure how Dina is going to respond to that.
Steamweed
I note that St. James gets her own tag. 🙂
True Survivor
Wow that is a cool find. I would missed that. Thanks.
Jeff K!
She’s been in Willis’ works since the very first Roomies! strip.
RassilonTDavros
She’s been here since the very beginning.
Holly
Wow thanks, it’s been so long since I read those that I clear forgot that Sarah was also a legacy character!
Switchchris24
That look on Dina’s Face lol
She looks like she is thinking “Oh you poor sweet child”
Robbie
Between my sex ed consisting of “sex makes babies” And my purity culture upbringing teaching that having a crush was equal to fornication, I actually had no idea what masturbating was.
So I did it with no shame, because it’s pretty natural to discover the ‘nerve endings down there’
The Quirk
If Gawd didn’t want us to masturbate, She would have made our arms shorter. Onan’s sin was not masturbation, it was ruining a good rug (“spilling his seed upon the ground”.)
Needfuldoer
I thought that was “not giving his dead brother an heir by boinking his sister-in-law”?
Wizard
Oh, he boinked her, he just pulled out. As long as she didn’t get pregnant, he could keep on boinking her.
Bicycle Bill
George Carlin did a riff on that once.
I think if God had intended us not to masturbate, He would have made our arms shorter. “Hey, I can’t reach nuttin’, c’mere. Hey, gimme a hand, willya, c’mere, c’mere, c’mere. Hey, ya wanna job?”
And now you know where t̲h̲a̲t̲ term came from….
Dave Van Domelen
Skinner boxed herself.
Regret
More like Pavlov’s dogged herself.
Pavlov’s dogs were about associating completely unrelated stimuli with a reward so the stimuli on their own were enough to trigger behaviour.
I had only the electrified version of the skinner box in mind, but on checking I found out the more common type was about food rewards as well. So now I see where you are coming from, but I still think this is more similar to Pavlovian conditioning.
Lazysaur
You know what’s also fucked up? Being an ace evangelical and assuming that resisting masturbation is quite easy! Only sinners want sexual pleasure.
Reltzik
That sounds less like an ace thing and more like a low libido thing? I think?
King Daniel
While Dina’s a comic example of an ace who’s fine by it, some aces don’t find much enjoyment from masturbation, or even aren’t into it at all. It depends!
Moon
like that guy on reddit or something who jerked off in the hall closet for years and now he has a pavlovian response to be turned on by the style of doorknob that was in there
Needfuldoer
Bare lady shoulders are one thing, but doorknobs?!
… I’ve been online long enough, I shouldn’t be surprised.
PirateTawnee