# So is Luann about to lose her virginity? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 30, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844 "2012-06-30T19:55:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/1 "2012-06-30T19:55:48Z")
Or will she get busted by her parents first? [Either way, [del]will there[/del] how much moral outrage will there be?](http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2012/06/30) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/2 "2012-06-30T20:00:57Z")
Nah. Just as they really start to get into it, Puddles will disappear and they’ll spend the next two weeks looking all over the neighborhood for him before they come back to the house to find him hiding in a closet. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/3 "2012-06-30T20:05:12Z")
I vote for the parents walking in on them. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/4 "2012-06-30T20:07:03Z")
Sorry, I can only concentrate on one Teenage Mutant Comic Babe at a time. At the moment I’m more fixated on [Hilary from Sally Forth](http://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/Sally_Forth/). ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/5 "2012-06-30T21:25:17Z")
If I had my druthers, I’d say they skip to the parents coming home, whatshisface already gone and Luann acting a bit befuddled and suspicious. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/6 "2012-06-30T21:51:40Z")
There will be no sex. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/7 "2012-06-30T23:04:51Z")
Don’t think so, they haven’t even managed to get Brad & Toni into bed yet. And I vote for the parents coming home. SS ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/8 "2012-06-30T23:08:16Z")
Wow. I completely missed the evolution of Luann. The Luann I remember is the second from the left. When did all this happen?!? ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/9 "2012-07-01T01:49:25Z")
That’s kind of a weird pose on the bed in that last frame. They look like they’re lying on their backs, side by side. Are they awkwardly making out? Is this a cut forward to the aftermath? Did they spontaneously die from that kiss? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/10 "2012-07-01T01:52:06Z")
> [@SeldomSeen](#): > > Don’t think so, they haven’t even managed to get Brad & Toni into bed yet. Of course they have. “The Brad was delicious” slip at the family dinner table kinda made that clear. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/11 "2012-07-01T02:07:52Z")
“The best planned lays of mice and men often go astray.” ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/12 "2012-07-01T02:12:23Z")
Luann is what, 25-30 years old? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/13 "2012-07-01T02:52:07Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > There will be no sex. They’re in the bedroom, not the champagne room. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/14 "2012-07-01T03:05:18Z")
When did Luann get so hawt? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/15 "2012-07-01T03:08:14Z")
It is a family comic strip, and the character is a minor, so I doubt very much that the results will be blatantly spelled out. I kinda suspect the box with the two of them lying on the bed is all there will be. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/16 "2012-07-01T06:59:53Z")
As for Luann getting ‘hot’ and being 30 years old or so, the characters do age in the strip. But I believe it’s at about 1/4 the rate of real-time. I think Evans has been stretching it lately. B-wad moved out and got a job and a girlfriend, but Luann seems to be held back a year or two to stay a teen. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/17 "2012-07-01T07:58:57Z")
To me Luann is seizing an opportunity. Aaron Hill is in Hawaii; Gunter is and will always be a nerd, Elvis is just a little kid who happens to have a zillion dollars, and Quill is right here and now. Looks to me like she’ll take the chance. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/18 "2012-07-01T11:28:43Z")
As long as they don’t start doing the _9 Chickweed Lane_ hand jive… They’re going to get caught, by the way, because Luann is an idiot who can’t tell time. She thinks she has three hours ([at least](http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2012/06/26)!) before her parents get home, but they’re only supposed to be gone from 10:00 until noon. Only two hours. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/19 "2012-07-01T13:51:15Z")
I say to _Luann_, the comic strip, the same thing I say to TV and movies when they tease at doing something dramatic and controversial, story-wise: _ahem_ “You don’t have the _stones_.” ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844/20 "2012-07-01T14:47:23Z")
Luann started out around age 13 or so and has progressed in comic strip time to a high school senior, maybe 17+. Along the way she lost the baby fat and at one point got her hair straightened: [Before](http://www.gocomics.com/luann/1999/09/30) [After](http://www.gocomics.com/luann/1999/10/12) So yeah she’s definitely not the ugly duckling anymore. (BTW: my favorite fanwank of that strip is that Luann and Tiffany have a repressed lesbian obsession with each other- it’s like they’re each other’s alter-egos.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-luann-about-to-lose-her-virginity/626844.md?page=2)