Becky might not want to do the deed until they are married but I’m sure Dina has some ideas for them to enjoy without actually having sex.
Kavonde
This might be one of Those Comments, but how would two inexperienced women go about determining where “enjoying themselves without actually having sex” ends and “actually having sex” begins?
The deleniation seems much less clear than it would be for a heterosexual pair.
Meagan
I agree, but I think that anything above the waist and/or over clothes could probably be considered “not sex.”
Kyrik Michalowski
That’s a fair point. If I had to determine that line in the sand, I think it would be no mutual genital contact/no using a strap-on/dildo.
No idea if that is an ok line in the sand but we should get more opinions on this rather than just mine.
Doki
As a queer person, I think that’s a very limiting line in the sand haha.
(Though I’m one of those people who’d call basically anything mutually arousing sex, so I acknowledge other people may disagree with my definition.)
thejeff
Kissing is commonly mutually arousing, but rarely considered sex.
Jenn
Honestly, I feel like trying to draw a line in the sand between “this sexual activity isn’t really sex” and “this sexually activity is really sex” feels foolish. If two or more people are engaging in mutual touching with the intent of getting off, I’d argue that’s sex.
Gigafreak
This still requires clarification regarding whether the getting-off must also be mutual for it to count.
Because then “giving cunnilingus” and/or “taking turns with cunnilingus” would not count, but “simultaneous cunnilingus via the Sixty-Nine formation” is what would bring it into the Naughty Zone.
Cunnilingus.
Also, the bigger question is what Becky— with her religiously-defined ideas of “sex must wait until marriage”– considers it to be, especially since marriage up until recently was defined in heteronormative terms.
thejeff
Yeah. Historically, this was all very much tied to virginity and specifically to the evidence of virginity in women.
Imagine you grew up in the 80’s 90’s, with discussing sex being common on TV, and most of TV originating from the US.
Now imagine the whole is translated in country where no one knows how baseball is really played, dubbed in a language baseball terms don’t exist.
I guess xkcd does a pretty good job of explaining how absurd are sex, arousing, and baseball.
RowenMorland
But you also grow up without knowing how complicated baseball is. You here there is like what 3 bases and a finish. So even if you don’t get exactly what those are supposed to correspond to your local sub-environment, probably school since we are growing up will assign something to those three and that’s what you think the system is until you get internet or talk to someone from a different social grouping.
khn0
I’m not sure to understand what you are talking about…
Are you talking about baseball?
Bases?
Metaphers?
Eros and its language?
See, just add baseball in a conversation: instant confusion.
Next we will do cricket.
I think that’s where proper communication comes in. They’re both mature enough to have some proper sexual education. Maybe not for Becky but the limits of her knowledge is a conversation itself. But ultimately she has the most control here. Especialky since Dina doesn’t have the same religious baggage. Crossing the line can be almost literally wherever Becky decides it.
Z
Based on Joyce’s sex dream where Ethan held something vaguely resembling Sarah’s dildo and literally rubbed it on her belly – I think it’s safe to say Becky and Joyce have no idea what sex is but are loosely aware clothes need to stay on to stay chaste.
i mean, it’s been a whole semester. their eyes have been opened by now.
Wizard
And we know Joyce has done enough research to draw something that was at least recognizable as a ding-dong.
Z
Becky hasn’t been in college a whole semester. She started off in a rigidly strict religious school. Then she was in hiding after being kicked out. Then she was running a political campaign. Then she was kidnapped by her dad. Then she had to catch up on 12 years’ science education to be able to keep up in her major.
I think it’s reasonable to think she hasn’t been watching too much porn.
Masumi
The problem arises of Becky *after* the fact panics all like ‘oh whoops what if that counted?’.
Chris Phoenix
It’s not clear for heterosexual people either. See “The Loophole” by Garfunkel and Oates (song on Youtube, no nudity, very NSFW lyrics)
TLDR when God said “No sex before marriage” maybe God didn’t mean to include anal sex?
Agemegos
This is an ancient speculation, which gave raise to the Eighteenth-Century joke that Spanish ladies were “virgins in front and martyrs behind”.
Wizard
Of course it’s anybody’s guess how much truth there was to that. When it comes to rumors of odd or depraved sexual practices, it’s always “those guys over there” who do it. Just see how the English, Irish, Scots and Welsh all love to accuse each other of an excessive fondness for sheep, for one example.
80-watt Hamster
One explanation/hypothesis for the sheep thing was that the legal penalty for bestiality was lesser than that for livestock theft, so folks would “plead down” to sheep schtuppin’. Dunno how likely that is, given that the social penalty might be relatively severe, unless it was a common enough nod-and-a-wink situation.
Agemegos
Yes, this is far stronger evidence that the English men making the joke understood about “God’s loophole” than that the Spanish women they told it about did.
Dropship
I guess I always just considered heterosexual penetration “sex” given that it has the very important difference of risking pregnancy. Everything else fell under various grades “sexual activity”, “makin luv”, etc.
This isn’t to diminish anything else from an emotional or legal perspective, but I guess the word loses utility from a functional/biological perspective if you dilute it.
Furubatsu
If it has sex in the name it’s sex. Oral sex is sex, but fingerings is OK with Jesus?
thejeff
So if I just change the words, it’s okay?
Oral sex is sex, but blowjobs and cunnilingus aren’t?
so i’m thinking maybe Willis will take pity on us this time and choose to merely celebrate Valentine’s Day by cutting to Sarah and Liz being silently grumpy at each other for a single strip before returning to Bex and Dina
I think it is less that she has a sexiness limit and more her recognizing she is in the way. Also I think she just doesn’t want to be without her computer.
She’d be a pretty weird livestreamer who only does audio, then.
Kyrik Michalowski
I resent that. I livestream without a webcam, you can hear my voice and the gameplay but not see me and that is perfectly fine.
King Daniel
Okay, point taken. Come to think of it, almost every game livestream I’ve ever seen (not that I’ve ever watched many streamers at all) has also lacked a facecam. I take my comment back. 😛
Jamie
And then there’s the thing where people make cartoon avatars with different poses based on whether or not the audio is on, or whatever. And Amber would be 100% capable of setting that kind of thing up.
I’m really mixed-feeling on it, but it’s definitely a thing.
ktbear
I feel Amber is talented enough to make an avatar that actually mimics her movements and speach. Ive seen a couple and theyre so damned cute when done well.
183 thoughts on “Sexiness”
Ana Chronistic
*comes back for gamepad* “sorry”
*comes back for headset* “no really I’m gone now”
Schpoonman
Could you stop swinging a bat at my ankles? I’m trying to vacate so they can do their thing.
Kyrik Michalowski
To be fair they might not even notice her, they haven’t reacted to anything she has said thus far.
Thag Simmons
Becky at least seems pretty distracted
Nathan
I don’t think Becky’s brain is capable of processing the outside world at this point.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Becky is too distracted right now to notice Amber.
While Dina is way too focused to notice her presence.
It’s an interesting case of opposite extremes being basically the same. 😀
gkheyf
Amber’s there for peer review
Deanatay
And Dina is focused.
ON SCIENCE.
Decidedly Orthogonal
– Laptop charger.
– USB cables
– Mouse
– …
Erik
I don’t need any of this! I don’t need anything… Except this lamp.
ValdVin
This is almost the polar opposite of The Marx Brothers’ famous stateroom scene in Night at the Opera.
Thag Simmons
Oh, is this happening now? I didn’t think it’d be so soon
ThunderNight
kinda seems like we might actually get a slipshine now.
Kyrik Michalowski
Becky might not want to do the deed until they are married but I’m sure Dina has some ideas for them to enjoy without actually having sex.
Kavonde
This might be one of Those Comments, but how would two inexperienced women go about determining where “enjoying themselves without actually having sex” ends and “actually having sex” begins?
The deleniation seems much less clear than it would be for a heterosexual pair.
Meagan
I agree, but I think that anything above the waist and/or over clothes could probably be considered “not sex.”
Kyrik Michalowski
That’s a fair point. If I had to determine that line in the sand, I think it would be no mutual genital contact/no using a strap-on/dildo.
No idea if that is an ok line in the sand but we should get more opinions on this rather than just mine.
Doki
As a queer person, I think that’s a very limiting line in the sand haha.
(Though I’m one of those people who’d call basically anything mutually arousing sex, so I acknowledge other people may disagree with my definition.)
thejeff
Kissing is commonly mutually arousing, but rarely considered sex.
Jenn
Honestly, I feel like trying to draw a line in the sand between “this sexual activity isn’t really sex” and “this sexually activity is really sex” feels foolish. If two or more people are engaging in mutual touching with the intent of getting off, I’d argue that’s sex.
Gigafreak
This still requires clarification regarding whether the getting-off must also be mutual for it to count.
Because then “giving cunnilingus” and/or “taking turns with cunnilingus” would not count, but “simultaneous cunnilingus via the Sixty-Nine formation” is what would bring it into the Naughty Zone.
Cunnilingus.
Also, the bigger question is what Becky— with her religiously-defined ideas of “sex must wait until marriage”– considers it to be, especially since marriage up until recently was defined in heteronormative terms.
thejeff
Yeah. Historically, this was all very much tied to virginity and specifically to the evidence of virginity in women.
King Daniel
There, as always, is an xkcd for this sort of question: https://xkcd.com/540/
khn0
Imagine you grew up in the 80’s 90’s, with discussing sex being common on TV, and most of TV originating from the US.
Now imagine the whole is translated in country where no one knows how baseball is really played, dubbed in a language baseball terms don’t exist.
I guess xkcd does a pretty good job of explaining how absurd are sex, arousing, and baseball.
RowenMorland
But you also grow up without knowing how complicated baseball is. You here there is like what 3 bases and a finish. So even if you don’t get exactly what those are supposed to correspond to your local sub-environment, probably school since we are growing up will assign something to those three and that’s what you think the system is until you get internet or talk to someone from a different social grouping.
khn0
I’m not sure to understand what you are talking about…
Are you talking about baseball?
Bases?
Metaphers?
Eros and its language?
See, just add baseball in a conversation: instant confusion.
Next we will do cricket.
Agemegos
“That’s not fair! Nobody understands cricket!”
milu
“sharing root PWs” XD
Sirksome
I think that’s where proper communication comes in. They’re both mature enough to have some proper sexual education. Maybe not for Becky but the limits of her knowledge is a conversation itself. But ultimately she has the most control here. Especialky since Dina doesn’t have the same religious baggage. Crossing the line can be almost literally wherever Becky decides it.
Z
Based on Joyce’s sex dream where Ethan held something vaguely resembling Sarah’s dildo and literally rubbed it on her belly – I think it’s safe to say Becky and Joyce have no idea what sex is but are loosely aware clothes need to stay on to stay chaste.
milu
i mean, it’s been a whole semester. their eyes have been opened by now.
Wizard
And we know Joyce has done enough research to draw something that was at least recognizable as a ding-dong.
Z
Becky hasn’t been in college a whole semester. She started off in a rigidly strict religious school. Then she was in hiding after being kicked out. Then she was running a political campaign. Then she was kidnapped by her dad. Then she had to catch up on 12 years’ science education to be able to keep up in her major.
I think it’s reasonable to think she hasn’t been watching too much porn.
Masumi
The problem arises of Becky *after* the fact panics all like ‘oh whoops what if that counted?’.
Chris Phoenix
It’s not clear for heterosexual people either. See “The Loophole” by Garfunkel and Oates (song on Youtube, no nudity, very NSFW lyrics)
TLDR when God said “No sex before marriage” maybe God didn’t mean to include anal sex?
Agemegos
This is an ancient speculation, which gave raise to the Eighteenth-Century joke that Spanish ladies were “virgins in front and martyrs behind”.
Wizard
Of course it’s anybody’s guess how much truth there was to that. When it comes to rumors of odd or depraved sexual practices, it’s always “those guys over there” who do it. Just see how the English, Irish, Scots and Welsh all love to accuse each other of an excessive fondness for sheep, for one example.
80-watt Hamster
One explanation/hypothesis for the sheep thing was that the legal penalty for bestiality was lesser than that for livestock theft, so folks would “plead down” to sheep schtuppin’. Dunno how likely that is, given that the social penalty might be relatively severe, unless it was a common enough nod-and-a-wink situation.
Agemegos
Yes, this is far stronger evidence that the English men making the joke understood about “God’s loophole” than that the Spanish women they told it about did.
Dropship
I guess I always just considered heterosexual penetration “sex” given that it has the very important difference of risking pregnancy. Everything else fell under various grades “sexual activity”, “makin luv”, etc.
This isn’t to diminish anything else from an emotional or legal perspective, but I guess the word loses utility from a functional/biological perspective if you dilute it.
Furubatsu
If it has sex in the name it’s sex. Oral sex is sex, but fingerings is OK with Jesus?
thejeff
So if I just change the words, it’s okay?
Oral sex is sex, but blowjobs and cunnilingus aren’t?
milu
sodomyyyyyy
fellaaatioooo
cuuunnilinguuus
pederastyyyy
oh, father! why do these words sound so nasty?
Thag Simmons
We’ll see if they make it past Valentine’s Day, there’s a lot of potential wrenches here
Mordecai
and if they don’t go through the full scientific method during it then I will be severely blue-balled
Mordecai
And no that isn’t a sexual innuendo, for clarification :p
PhyrexianRogue
You mean it *wasn’t*.
Deanatay
Well…
I mean, seeking peer review might be a little too ‘Joe/Roz’ for them…
Rose by Any Other Name
… now I’m wondering if Willis is planning to release something on Valentines Day.
King Daniel
Willis? Do something positive that’s couples-related on Valentines’ Day??
The Wellerman
Yeah judging by that trend AND one preview from April, you can 10 billion percent count on a Slipshine NOT being released this month :/
King Daniel
Never tell me the odds!
RassilonTDavros
One of these days we’re gonna get a Valentine’s Day strip about Hank and Carol’s divorce proceedings.
ktbear
I dont recall Rose saying it was going to be positive?
Fart Captor
OH GOD
Why would you remind me that valentine’s day is approaching?
nonononononononononononononononononono
milu
so i’m thinking maybe Willis will take pity on us this time and choose to merely celebrate Valentine’s Day by cutting to Sarah and Liz being silently grumpy at each other for a single strip before returning to Bex and Dina
milu
@Thag “didn’t think itd be so soon”
yeah that’s so out of the blue, you’d think that would’ve been foreshadowed a wee bit
The Wellerman
GET EXCITED!!!
? ?? ?? ? ?? ? ?? ?? ?
You’re all about to witness the TRUE POWER of Dina.
You’re about to witness the TRUE POWER of SCIENCE!
A POWER that can be used to improve EVERYONE’S lives!!!
And it’s about to improve Becky’s life!!!
*plays “Good Morning World!!!” by the BURNOUT SYNDROMES on Hacked Muzak*
Chronos
I really enjoy that anime.
I’m going to be slightly disappointed if the Slipshine involving those two isn’t named “Scientific Method”.
Shadowsnail
“sexiness” at a million percent!
EvilMidnightLurker
excuse you TEN BILLION percent
zee
It took me like a minute to realize this wasn’t an ad
Kyrik Michalowski
Never has science been this sexy, this is what it means to go beyond.
Suet
Love is in the air for those two and those two only.
Amber has a sexiness limit? Hm.
Kyrik Michalowski
I think it is less that she has a sexiness limit and more her recognizing she is in the way. Also I think she just doesn’t want to be without her computer.
Khantalas
Isn’t Pants Euphoria that spin-off to that one HBO show?
Sirksome
The wifi is probably better in the common area anyway.
Kravis
Ya better, cause if it stayed, this laptop would have seeeeen things…
King Daniel
Amber writes guro fic. It already has.
Thag Simmons
Amber has definitely taped over her laptop camera, it ain’t seeing a damn thing
King Daniel
She’d be a pretty weird livestreamer who only does audio, then.
Kyrik Michalowski
I resent that. I livestream without a webcam, you can hear my voice and the gameplay but not see me and that is perfectly fine.
King Daniel
Okay, point taken. Come to think of it, almost every game livestream I’ve ever seen (not that I’ve ever watched many streamers at all) has also lacked a facecam. I take my comment back. 😛
Jamie
And then there’s the thing where people make cartoon avatars with different poses based on whether or not the audio is on, or whatever. And Amber would be 100% capable of setting that kind of thing up.
I’m really mixed-feeling on it, but it’s definitely a thing.
ktbear
I feel Amber is talented enough to make an avatar that actually mimics her movements and speach. Ive seen a couple and theyre so damned cute when done well.