Personally, I wouldn't disagree with you. Well, I wouldn't bother arguing. But these comics seem to treat electrical devices as the standard for self-pleasure, if only because characters wandering around with Hitachi boxes or complaining about running out of batteries are funny. So I assume that if and when Ruby gets there, mechanical assistance will be involved.Bambikles wrote:Shouldn't she try errr... manually before ? I dunno, between hand, man and sextoy, the more risqué one to me seems to be the sextoy.
Remember, Ruby is quite fastidious even in matters unrelated to sex (such as toothpaste). That's just her personality. (I suspect that some lucky guy is going to find himself being required to shower and to watch her showering a lot, one day.) So when she found that love egg, she'll have had a severe squick reaction (and really, Amber's grasp of hygiene isn't good), with a twist of incest taboo. It doesn't imply much about how she'd want to do things for herself - although disinfectant cloths would doubtless be involved.Bambikles wrote:Teens experiment with hands and... other objects before going to sextoys I guess. And remember how she threw the love egg and wanted to wash her hands afterwards ? Granted, she may had reacted differently if it had been in her "honey pot".
It bemuses me too, but all the figures I've seen say that much fewer women than men masturbate, and quite a few never do; Kinsey said 38% of women against 8% of men, and a more recent study said that 62% hadn't masturbated during the past year. (Ah, got to love the Internet.) I suspect that quite a few women like orgasms well enough, but find the act squicky enough that they don't bother if they've got any sort of reliably available partner. So if Ruby has never tried it, she's in a minority but she's not a freak.Bambikles wrote:It's hard to imagine she never masturbated before, if simply from curiosity or accidentally, but it seems to be the case given how repressed she is. And there are adult women who are perfectly sexually active and not repressed who yet never masturbate (saw a Frenchwoman made documentary about it once, I was surprised). So Ruby may be that ignorant about self-pleasure.
That's exactly why I'd normally be very careful about saying that any female character "needs to get laid"; it does come dangerously close to saying "needs a man to make her complete". But my gut feeling with Ruby is that she does need a sexual relationship, not just an orgasm - and as she appears to be quite solidly heterosexual, well, it's going to have to be a man.brasca wrote:Personally I think she needs to take care of business rather than find a man. I find that notion rather sexist.
She no doubt could get the hang of self-pleasuring, and it'd give her some release, but she's already locked into a solitary way of tackling this issue with the yaoi and the fantasies about Dillon. That isn't solving the problem, though; it's just tying her up in knots, distracting her from other concerns, and making her treat Dillon as a fantasy object instead of a person. That failure to engage with other people is exactly why she's been behaving so badly these last few strips.
She needs someone who can turn sex into a mutually respectful process for her, share a few jokes to help her get over the feeling that it's all a bit stupid and ridiculous, and listen to her ranting about her latest lousy job interview in the afterglow.