[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.
S&W in German/auf Deutsch
![[0605] Teenage Pregnancy](/comics/2014-08-07-0605-teenage-pregnancy.png "[0605] Teenage Pregnancy")
Challenge accepted! Ten, Eleventeen, Twelveteen …@ Prezombie:
@ Lukkai:
Being a teenager is when you acquire the term “teen” in the english name for your age.
In other words, you become a teenager when you turn thirTEEN, and you stop being a teenager at age twenty.
Age of consent, incidentlally, in Colorado, is 17– but there is a “Romeo and Juliet” clause that allows consensual sex under that age– but I don’t know whether any of the parents here, save Richard, would approve. (we know Larisa’s mom isn’t in approval, nor (obviously) are Landon’s parents– and threats of extreme violence from Ye Thuza kinda leads me to believe she wants Cloud and Sandra to wait.)
The attitude of Ye Thuza also makes sense since she’s a christian (albeit a different type than Landon’s parents). I was raised in a christian household…I basically got the same talk that cloud did.
@ Lukkai:
Being a teenager is when you acquire the term “teen” in the english name for your age.
In other words, you become a teenager when you turn thirTEEN, and you stop being a teenager at age twenty.
Age of consent, incidentlally, in Colorado, is 17– but there is a “Romeo and Juliet” clause that allows consensual sex under that age– but I don’t know whether any of the parents here, save Richard, would approve. (we know Larisa’s mom isn’t in approval, nor (obviously) are Landon’s parents– and threats of extreme violence from Ye Thuza kinda leads me to believe she wants Cloud and Sandra to wait.)
@ Lukkai:
Lesse, why would Ye Thuza say that stuff?……
Cloud, tell me you didn’t ask her about THAT
@ Troll Science Man:
I have not seen any reliable studies that indicate that Mountain Dew or soy products act as spermicides. Some Mountain Dew formulations contain high amounts of caffeine, which has other health effects, but not much in the way of sperm production/mobility.
If you did consume only Mountain Dew and soy products for a few weeks, the negative health effects from severe malnutrition would be quite noticeable. Unprotected sex would be the last thing on your mind; surviving the next day would be a bigger concern.
Switch Master wrote:
Interesting fact, In Megaman 2 on the stage select screen if you look closely you can see that Hello I’m hard as hell and my stage is worse than Kaizo Mario and Touhou combined and I will make you use up all your E tanks and the time stopper won’t beat me also crash bombs won’t work because I’m too damn fast and their too damn slow man’s err I mean Quick man’s yellow boomerang thingy sticks out just a little bit.
Repeating the question:
IS Larissa unbuttoning her shirt?
@ David Nuttall:
Yhea but I have heard a lot of people mention that. personally I wouldn’t try it also I don’t think it would work however soy can negatively effect sperm/eggs or at least that’s what everybody is saying. But still as I said it was for the LULZ!!!!!!!!!!
But seriously I’ll stop typing that crap and change my name!
Oddly enough Cloud’s mom said the exact thing MY mom did. Except she was holding a much bigger sword … And I’m not kidding about that last part lol.
The third and fourth panel are much funnier in German! 😉
I met a post-pregnancy teenage girl on a plane flight once. When we were about to land, I asked her about breastfeeding. It was enough to distract her from the part of the flight she loathed.
@ Deko:
Yeah..she didn’t say WHICH head.
@ The J.A.M.:
It certainly looks that way. Honestly, with Larisa’s feelings for Landon I wouldn’t be surprised if those two have been engaging in what they’d politely call “heavy petting”. I wouldn’t be shocked if he’s seen her topless already.
Larisa, you do realize that each act of copulation only has about a 1-2% of resulting in pregnancy, right? It would probably be months before you actually conceived.
Jim wrote:
That’s what they’d politely call it? Then what would they impolitely call it?
@ John Willow:
It’s implied that she was mysteriously transported to Saudi Arabia and never seen again.
Can someone explain the placebo pills?
My brain says sugar water tablets, but my mind says that Sandra’s dad is both too down to earth and smart to do that to his daughter…
And all these conversations are happening right now because of web-comic irony. *Al Yankovik slaps hand* I mean because of web-comic coincidence.
P.S. Yes, I do, and always have, responded to my username. It’s merely coincidence, not irony.
I like this page a lot haha.
Though isn’t 13 very old for a raccoon?
@ LordCoyote:
It’s a bit over half. In captivity they have lived up to 20 years old, so really old raccoons in the wild might be in their teens.
@ Mr. Random:
They’ve been explained. Read the previous comments.
Wow this characters have grown up so much, just watching them get older over the years have been nothing but a privilege.
Funny thing is only 13year olds can only have sex in japan
These topics are making me a little uncomfortable, given the age of the characters (12). Maybe it’s time they started growing up a bit if you guys want to tackle these things.
I wonder what is Larisa getting for her 13th birthday… however I have expected them to be around 14 now… but well just a year off.
Perhaps it’s because I’m a man, but- hold the phone, the writer’s a man too! Therefore it’s entirely on him if I’m confused! Ha HA!
Anyway, how does putting 7 placebos into the packet remind Sandra to get a new one? Do these placebos taste differently enough so that, say, when she gets the 7th one in a mix of the 28, or 7 odd – tasting ones in a row, she gets a new packet? But wouldn’t her just running out be enough? Am I just not thinking of something? I was never good at Professor Layton.
@ Lukkai:
The thirTEENth birthday, actually.
@ Rarefoil:
The placebos are differently colored and usually in a row. They contain no or lesser dosages of estrogen, to keep the cycle up. Wikipedia is your friend, if you didn’t get sex-ed.
So… we’re not going to find out what happened to that tumblr pseudo feminist biology teacher who doesn’t understand reproductive biology? Are we to assume she’s dead? is this just one of Sandra and Woo’s many unresolved plot lines like whether Shadow actually found any food that one time or where the pine squirrel gets her bullets?
On another note, I’m sure when I first started reading this comic it was more… innocent (Larissa excluded). Things seemed to take a turn around the time of the “Cloud’s first boner” comic, or possibly the “insulin ban” comic, I forget which came first. I know these are issues that need to be dealt with but… I d’know, seems like the comic lost its “comic for kids enjoyable for adults” feel and has gotten more of a “comic that’s about kids but is probably not suitable for kids” feel. Not sure why I feel like any of that’s worse than Cloud’s sister saying “motherfuckers” though… or why I keep reading. Still reading Ctrl+Alt+Del too for reasons beyond my understanding, I guess out of habit more than anything.
Wait wait.
So does this strip is implying that Larissa is asking Landon to perform underage sex NOW to avoid pregnancy because if they’re doing it next month Larissa could be pregnant because she’s already a teenage next month (still underage though) ?
Thanks for the update on the teenager thing.
You learn something new every day.
DBSLAYER7 wrote:
More like that’s the average lifespan of raccoons in the wild. But they can easily grow much older. Up to twenty years and even more that is, as already mentioned by someone else.
Also: If you ask Woo, I’m fairly certain he would respond that she is>/b> magic. 😉
David Nuttall wrote:
So in regard to avoiding unwanted pregnancy…
It WORKS! Huzzah!
@ Lukkai:
When the numbers start ending in “teen” maybe? ie: 13-19 ?
@ abowden:
uhm do you not know what this is about or do you play dumb?
Ok so think about it, what would haben if a woman took the pill with hormones all the time? She wouldn’t get her period! The hormoenes basicallytlle the body she is prgnant already, that’s how it works. But taking it the whoöe month would be rather dangerous, so 7 Days a moth you still get your period , some pills thus have placebos for those days so you don’t lose the habit of taking the pill, some don’t have that.
I prefer the ones that don’t work wit placebos basically because in the factory stuff hapanes and it isn’t unheard of a whole package falsely being packed with placebos, but no one realized it since they look the same…
Well well Landon, looks like you REALLY scored with your choice of a girlfriend there…
hehe, I love the way Landon is gripping the sheets. xD
If you ain’t ready to provide ~ A.K.A – Make enough money for everyone – you ain’t ready for this. That’s always been my motto. =P
Life is never fair, though. Sometimes the easiest lesson is just telling the kids what lessons they need to take in life before they move down this road so it hits them harder when they think about it. This actually differs for everyone. Life isn’t always smooth though, but if everyone keeps on reminding people what they have to expect, say, ten years ahead of time after college and how finances work in real life, they will think very carefully before heading down virgin alley as they say.
Well this mystery is now officially resolved at least in Larissa and Landon’s case. Twenty bucks says that the next panels we see are of Sandra awkwardly trying to seduce Cloud.
@ DBSLAYER7:
Three years is the AVERAGE live expectancy of a raccoon. The smart/lucky ones may live up to 20 years. The average is so short because of predation, disease, or automobiles (in cities, autos kill nearly half of raccoons each year)
The most effective? Ye Thuza by far, also the oldest method.
Sam wrote:
Again, it’s not a “period” (a portion of the menstrual cycle during which normal physiological processes cause functional endometrial sloughing resulting in a sanguineous discharge of these tissues) but rather an artifact of the ways in which a majority of oral contraceptive products have long been formulated, the active tablets containing an estrogenic agent which serves to induce an endometrial proliferation not related to the cycle of ovulation – which is suppressed – and that proliferation is allowed to slough by withdrawing the formulation’s synthetic hormonal component(s) during the “blank pill” days.
It’s withdrawal bleeding, and with different approaches to hormonal contraception, it’s an adverse effect of treatment that can be minimized and not uncommonly avoided altogether.
This is one of the reasons why injection-administered contraceptive medications like Depo-Provera have taken a dominant position in this therapeutic area over much of the world.
Prezombie wrote:
Probably the reason I’m even more attracted to ye thuza now.
@ColdFusion: So in your Country, you separate curious Teenagers by genders until they are 18? 😉
Do not worry and try to read the Comic again with a bit of distance, it’s just about getting an early start on the neccessary information before anything “happens”. Sexual education does start pretty early in germany in order to avoid “accidents” that would mess up lifes.
Leaving out the Lily & Woo conversation, three very different attitudes to teenage sexual activity are expounded here:
“If you’re going to do it, then at least take some precautions.”
“Just do it.”
“Don’t do it.”
In my not-so-humble opinion, both of the latter two extremes are equally wrong although for different reasons.
“Just do it” ignores the very real physical and medical risks and social impact of youthful sexual activity.
“Don’t do it” ignores the reality that sexual activity is immensely pleasurable and therefore is hugely attractive to anyone at any age once they discover it (add teenage hormones to the recipe and it becomes vastly more attractive).
“If you’re going to do it, then at least take some precautions” is the only sensible approach, in my opinion.
If you’re against premarital sex, then you have the right to make that opinion known to your children, but their bodies belong to them, not to you, so in the end it’s up to them to decide.
Your main responsibility as a parent is to ensure that they have good information upon which to base their decisions. If they make a bad decision, that’s not your fault.
Once a child makes a bad decision, your responsibility as a parent is to help your child to cope with the consequences of that bad decision. Not to take away that responsibility, else the child would learn nothing, but to help the child to cope with the consequences.
Just my opinion. Take it or leave it, as you like.
I think Cloud got the message the moment he saw that sword
@ Lukkai:
Traditionally you become a teenager at thirteen and stay one until (and counting) nineteen. Because all the numbers between these end in “teen” 🙂
But, but, aren’t they just 12?
Prediction:
1 – This webcomic will still be running in 2025
2 – In that time, the characters will age about 4 years, maybe 5
3 – There will be a serious and heavy storyline where cloud gets sandra pregnant
4 – Someone will bring this strip up
Don’t worry, Cloud, remember strip 0437, “Cloud Under Pressure”.