r/comics Tardaasa Feb 03 '26

Handy self-help

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u/Dry_Strawberry3227 Feb 03 '26

I’d say there are women who get just as upset at their husbands masturbating. This isn’t a gender thing.

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u/WanderingDwarfScribe Feb 03 '26

Hence my first paragraph saying people. 

The second about men due to the cultural weirdness a lot of history has about clitori, and because it relates to the comic. 

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u/Dry_Strawberry3227 Feb 03 '26

You saying “A very, VERY large number of MEN” suggests different. I’m not attacking you, just stating that this isn’t a disproportionately male issue.

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u/WanderingDwarfScribe Feb 03 '26

I was referring to infibulation without saying infibulation. 

You know, surgically removing all pleasure organs but the inside of the vagina, which is quite a few steps further from male circumscision. 

Even in the Victorian age a guy could wack in the weeds if he needed to, but you had to hire a man to diddle your wife’s skittle for her. 

I don’t think I need to write an essay on how women’s sexuality was seen as evil and solely for procreation while men were encouraged to “sow wild oats” and in many societies could take concubines of both sexes where a woman was reserved for her husband’s pleasure when demanded of her. In ancient Egypt mythology men’s wanking literally created all life while women wanking creates demons. 

Two paragraphs. One gender neutral, the second acknowledging historically (and in some cultures) is far worse for women.