[0605] Teenage Pregnancy
└ posted on Thursday, 7 August 2014, by Novil
- Caption: Sandra and Woo characters on avoiding teenage pregnancy.
- Richard: The 28-pill packet contains seven placebo pills. This way, you automatically remember when to begin the next packet.
- Lily: Can a 13-year-old female even have kits still?
- Woo: Very doubtful.
- Larisa: Don’t be irresponsible, Landon! If we wait another month, you’ll knock up a teenage girl!
- Ye Thuza: If you get Sandra pregnant before she’s finished high school, I’ll separate your head from your body.
thats one good way to keep ur man larisa XD
I sincerely hope that this will not be an issue for the characters later on in this comic.
Larisa’s tactic seems to work only as a technicality.
That’s… interesting reasoning there, Larisa.
But… where do you draw the line after which you call someone a Teenager? I mean, mathematically it would be with your tenth birthday.
Is Larissa unbuttoning her shirt?
@ Lukkai:
In english, you’re a teenager when you turn thirTEEN.
Blame whoever decided to never update the words eleven and twelve to match.
Is the joke that Larisa’s twelve? Because dang, that’s pretty dysfunctional.
… What? Pyromania and compulsive lying are perfectly normal behavior!
Ironically people hacked my comment to death when I wrote “She’s gonna end up an unwed teenage mother isn’t she?”. Seems I was the only one that saw it co……foreshadowed…..
By the way are we going to find out what happened to the lard ass that was picking on Cloud?
Maybe it’s just me but I don’t think the first panel is the greatest of ideas…
Ye Thuza reminds me a bit of my Gran. She would always say stuff like:
‘Don’t jump off that wall, or you’ll fall on your head and your brains will splat all over the floor and crows will peck out your eyes’
I have to admit, I never jumped off any walls after being told that.
Ye Thuza the best on avoiding pregnancy: as a matter of fact, looking from the viewpoint of a male….loosing “heads” isn’t very nice
So. . . What happened to the dictator hag???
Wait… what is Richard trying to accomplish here?
@ Raen:
SAFE SEX!!! He doesn’t want to be a grandaddy yet 🙂
@ Raen:
I think they are meant to be taken daily and the placebo’s are taken during the time of great darkness and evil all females go through every month, their period.
@ Jumtrev:
She mysteriously disappeared. Wait, what dictator hag? There wasn’t a dictator hag. What are you talking about? We don’t have any dictator hags here. Trust me
So, in contraceptive pills meant to be taken every day, pills for menstruation days are placebos (i.e. no hormones) so that the habit of taking a pill does not get interrupted? My spouse has been on the pill for years, of course, but I never paid attention to the details.
Landon one must envy him and pity him at the same time.
Also, it occurs to me that Thuza’s method is actually pretty good at hindering sudden and potentially awkward erections. Fear doubles as a cold shower.
I think I’ll follow Ye Thuza’s methods once I have children.
I’m having all kinds of feelings right now. Granted, I can’t tell anyone what those feelings are.
@ Burger:
Sorry, but no. Fear and physical arousal are not mutually exclusive. Fear can even make it easier to be aroused.
Strife wrote:
We all know these feels…
No, actually, I don’t know what kind of feelings you have.
Damn You know Ye Thuza is serious when her sword goes through the friggin panel.
1/4 is a placebo? someone likes to live dangerously.
Want a birth control method but don’t wanna take pills and buy condoms?
Well just follow these easy steps
Fact: The beverage Mountain Dew is known to kill sperm cells.
Also soy is known to have damaging effects to sperm/eggs as well.
Step one: ste er aquire about 20 packs of Mountain Dew.
Hint use magnets for faster aquirering.
Step 2 only drink and eat soy products for about 2 to 3 months.
Step 3 before intercourse, drink all the Mountain Dew.
Congladurations you now haz no sperm to impregnate or no egg that can be fertilized.
Enjoy Infinite secs without worring about heving children.
Birth Control Companies will go bankrupt
Condom companies will go bankrupt
Mountain Dew will be rich off your moneyz.
Unborn Babies will be jelly
Problem Doctors?
(Disclaimer) Don’t actually try this!!!! It’s just for the lulz!!!!!!!.
@abowden While on the contraceptive pill, the active pills remain effective during the week of placebo. Most pills if you start taking them during the ‘time of darkness’ you are protected immediately, others they advise to wait a cycle. In fact, once someone has been consistently taking the oestrogen/proestrogen contraceptive pill for a series of months or years studies have shown they can be protected months after quitting the pill, apparently one cycle for every year on the pill, BUT everyone’s bodies are different and the only way to be protected from pregnancy is to be taking the pill at the same time everyday (usually there’s a leeway of about 12h) without skipping and even then it’s not 100% effective, just as condoms aren’t. Sex ed class done.
Or just don’t have secs at all. U don’t want aids! Their no fun!
The last panel ought to include the words, “always use a fresh condom” (unless she already went over that).
@ Veradis:
Thank you for the explanation!
Switch Master wrote:
Well it looks like she
*puts on glasses*
Just broke the fourth wall
Yheeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuh
Leave it to Ye Thuza to get right to the ‘point’ of the matter….
@ Invisible Dancing Bottom:
@ Plaid Wolf:
I see what ya did there. 🙂
Jumtrev wrote:
Don’t worry she’s with me. 🙂
IDK wrote:
Larissa is 8 months too late and 85 months too early if she wants to avoid teenage pregnancy. There’s no way a child conceived now would be born before she becomes a teenager.
Very good way to get intelligent discussions going; at the same time getting emotional discussions going. there is no easy answer to this situation that is oh to real in all countries.
as a first step is the realization and acceptance that it does happen.
@ Dontlookatme:
Oh, like she actually plans to stay pregnant.
After reading the comic, (three times through of course) I noticed that the ad on the right was “what to expect when you’re expecting”. I almost died.
Wow.. I seriously cannot believe this. Even for Germany this is messed up.
@ Burger:
That’s their intended use, but I think here the idea is that she’ll take the placebos way before she starts having sex, so that it will be a habit by the time she is taking real ones, and she won’t forget and get pregnant.
Burger wrote:
Usually, but not always. Any of them that have “FE” in the name have iron supplements in them in addition to the hormones, and those still have the iron in the “placebo” pills.
Also, just for reference, the pills are usually referred to as active and inactive tablets, rather than calling the one week “placebos”, for reasons like the above. 😉
What.
IDK wrote:
That would be an interesting spin off series: “12&Pregnant”.
So, is nobody else going to point out that Lily and Woo consider Sandra as incapable of becoming pregnant due to old age? Clever how they snuck that one into the comic past Larisa’s questionable logic and Ye Thuza’s parenting genius.
@ Lukkai:
Really? I always thought it meant thirteen to nineteen, and teenager came from the -teen at the end.
…I’m getting terrible flashbacks. To the long series of these talks I’ve had with my daughter. Little miss “there is no such thing as too much information”. The talks I’ve had to have with her at ages 3, 5, 8, 10 and now 12. She’s even just about to turn 13. Too many similarities and now I can’t get it all out of my head. So, thanks for that.
You’d think woo would have a whole litter by now seeing as animals don’t use protection. Unless their implying she’s 13 in which case she must be magic since the longest a raccoon lives is 3 years.
I noticed Ye Thuza didn’t specify WHICH head!
@ Nina:
It’s not terribly uncommon for girls to take birth control pills even if they have no intention of having intercourse in the foreseeable future. These pills can sometimes be helpful if the girl suffers from erratic or exceptionally painful bouts of ‘time of darkness’ (or, as my girlfriend likes to call it, “Shark Week”).
Burger wrote:
Technically, what happens on those “blank tablet” days isn’t menstruation but withdrawal bleeding, and I have never yet found myself in accord with this pharmacotherapeutic tactic. It’s one of the reasons why one of the most popular contraceptive methods is sustained-dose progestogenic agents, delivered either in “depo” intramuscular injection every 3 months or via subcutaneous implants eluting the active principal over years of efficacy.
Most women respond by simply having no uterine bleeding at all throughout the duration of treatment, and yet can resume menstruation upon discontinuation of the contraceptive regime.
Given a choice….
@ abowden:
The one week of placebos are for when she is on her period which generally lasts 4-6 days, and is also a time she likely wouldn’t want to have unprotected sex anyway due to cramps, mood swings and the general ickiness of that idea. Her father is implying that you would start it at the end of one period, so that the end of the first packet would be right after the next one and she’d automatically start the next packet due to maintaining the habit.