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2011-01-19

Original: 2011-01-19 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
A woman with brown hair and glasses faces a shirtless man with flame-like red hair, both shown from the shoulders up against a dark blue background.

Woman: "I'm not sure we should have sex tonight. Men find women most attractive when they're most fertile, and I don't want to risk pregnancy. So I guess the question is this: do you find me at all attractive?"

Man (looking strained and uncomfortable): "I don... well I'd... but... I -"

Caption (below panel): Endocrinologists can get out of sex any time.

Votey:
A close-up sketch of the red-haired man's worried face.

Man: "You look great, but way worse than usual?"

Alt text

A two-panel SMBC comic. In the main panel, a woman with brown hair and glasses faces a shirtless red-haired man against a dark blue background. She says: 'I'm not sure we should have sex tonight. Men find women most attractive when they're most fertile, and I don't want to risk pregnancy. So I guess the question is this: do you find me at all attractive?' The man, looking trapped and anxious, stammers: 'I don... well I'd... but... I -'. The caption reads: 'Endocrinologists can get out of sex any time.' The joke: she has set a trap where finding her attractive implies she's fertile (risk of pregnancy, no sex), so he has no safe answer. In the votey, a close-up of the man's worried face shows him attempting the only escape: 'You look great, but way worse than usual?'

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.