2014-06-14

A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel one: a shirtless man earnestly tells a woman with glasses, "Let's have sex slowly and haltingly, and only after getting permission from a small group of elders. After that, we will slightly misrepresent how good the sex was, in the hopes of more sex later." Panel two, captioned "EARLIER...": the same man, now wearing a vest, grins at the unimpressed woman and says, "Hey baby. I've made a science of sex." The joke parodies the slow, gatekept, results-spinning nature of academic science applied to a pickup line. Votey: a close-up of the man adding, "Also if the sex fails, let's just not report it" — a jab at publication bias and unreported negative results.