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<p>DannyLeigh: /* Explanation */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 1564<br /> | date = August 14, 2015<br /> | title = Every Seven Seconds<br /> | image = every_seven_seconds.png<br /> | titletext = Every few months, I think about sex every seven seconds and how weird and implausible it would be.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{Incomplete|More detail needed, explain sociologist joke, explain Cueballs thinking more, correct title text explaination.}}<br /> <br /> There is an oft-stated assertion that men think about sex every seven seconds. This can be regarded as an {{w|urban myth}}. See for example BBC's [http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140617-how-often-do-men-think-about-sex], where they say that a more realisting number is 19 times in a waking day, i.e. once every 50 minutes.<br /> <br /> In this joke [[Cueball]] seems to be raising skeptical objections to this myth. The title of the comic ''(Every seven seconds)'' hints strongly about it, and all comments lead us to believe that Cueball wants to debunk the myth. However in the punchline we learn that Cuebal is a sociologist who disbelieves in a team of his colleagues actually studying such a difficult subject (the same objection raised in BBC's reference).<br /> <br /> Both the punchline and the title text are written by a narrator (Randall?), not by Cueball the sociologist. In the title text the narrator says he regularly thinks about how implausible it would be to have sex every seven seconds.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :Cueball is thinking while walking.<br /> <br /> :''There’s no way that’s true.''<br /> :''It would interfere with basic cognition.''<br /> :''Such a ridiculous view of masculinity.''<br /> :''How would you even &lt;em&gt;study&lt;/em&gt; that?''<br /> <br /> :Text below the picture: Every seven seconds, sociologists think about that made-up statistic about how often men think about sex.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Sex]]</div>

DannyLeigh https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1564:_Every_Seven_Seconds&diff=99661 2015-08-14T13:39:49Z

<p>DannyLeigh: /* Explanation */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 1564<br /> | date = August 14, 2015<br /> | title = Every Seven Seconds<br /> | image = every_seven_seconds.png<br /> | titletext = Every few months, I think about sex every seven seconds and how weird and implausible it would be.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{Incomplete|More detail needed, explain sociologist joke, explain Cueballs thinking more, correct title text explaination.}}<br /> <br /> There is an oft-stated assertion that men think about sex every seven seconds. This can be regarded as an {{w|urban myth}}. See for example BBC's [http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140617-how-often-do-men-think-about-sex], where they say that a more realisting number is 19 times in a waking day, i.e. once every 50 minutes.<br /> <br /> In this joke [[Cueball]] seems to be raising skeptical objections to this myth. The title of the comic ''(Every seven seconds)'' hints strongly about it, and all comments lead us to believe that Cueball wants to debunk the myth. However in the punchline we learn that Cuebal is a sociologist who disbelieves in a team of his colleagues actually studying such a difficult subject (the same objection raised in BBC's reference).<br /> <br /> Both the punchline and the title text are written by a narrator (Randall?), not by Cueball the sociologist. In the title text the narrator says he regularly thinks about how implausible it would be to have sex every seven seconds, or <br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :Cueball is thinking while walking.<br /> <br /> :''There’s no way that’s true.''<br /> :''It would interfere with basic cognition.''<br /> :''Such a ridiculous view of masculinity.''<br /> :''How would you even &lt;em&gt;study&lt;/em&gt; that?''<br /> <br /> :Text below the picture: Every seven seconds, sociologists think about that made-up statistic about how often men think about sex.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Sex]]</div>

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