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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{Incomplete|More detail needed, explain sociologist joke, explain Cueball's thinking more, correct title text explanation.}} | |
− | + | 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 realistic number is 19 times in a waking day, i.e. once every 50 minutes. | |
− | + | 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 Cueball 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). | |
− | + | 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. The title text could also be implying that the narrator's sex life is dull because of the possible interpretation that it would be weird and implausible to have sex at all. See possible interpretations below: | |
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In the title text, the narrator's statement leaves some meaning up to interpretation: | In the title text, the narrator's statement leaves some meaning up to interpretation: | ||
− | *Every few months, I | + | * Every few months, I think ''about sex'' every seven seconds [in one day, i.e. 8200 times that day] and how weird and implausible [having intercourse] would be. |
− | **Implying that narrator's sex life is not very active. | + | ** Implying that narrator's sex life is not very active. |
− | *Every few months, I think about | + | * Every few months, I think ''about sex every seven seconds'' and how weird and implausible [having intercourse every seven seconds] would be. |
− | ** | + | ** Having sex every seven seconds is implausible. |
− | *Every few months, I think about | + | * Every few months, I think ''about sex every seven seconds and how weird and implausible [such an assertion] would be''. |
− | **This interpretation is a bit paradoxical, because it implies that the narrator finds himself thinking about the very thing he dismisses as a possibility to think about so often | + | ** This interpretation is a bit paradoxical, because it implies that the narrator finds himself thinking about the very thing he dismisses as a possibility to think about so often. |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | : | + | :Cueball is thinking while walking. |
− | : | + | :''There’s no way that’s true.'' |
− | + | :''It would interfere with basic cognition.'' | |
− | : | + | :''Such a ridiculous view of masculinity.'' |
− | : | + | :''How would you even <em>study</em> that?'' |
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− | : | + | :Text below the picture: Every seven seconds, sociologists think about that made-up statistic about how often men think about sex. |
− | :Every seven seconds, sociologists | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Sex]] | [[Category:Sex]] | ||
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