2012-08-17
Explanation
This comic presents a satirical proposal displayed in a red banner at the top: "A PROPOSAL: People who favor '''alternative medicine''' shall receive alternative versions of everything." The scene below shows a couple in bed. The man tentatively suggests, "There'''s this thing called '''the clitoris,''' and... maybe you could--" to which the woman cuts him off: "Sorry, I don'''t believe in evidence-based sex."
The joke applies the logic of alternative medicine skepticism to another domain to expose its absurdity. Alternative medicine is defined as medical treatments that are not supported by scientific evidence; the comic extends this philosophy to its logical conclusion by imagining someone who rejects evidence-based approaches in all areas of life, including sexual technique. The man is trying to share anatomical knowledge (the existence and function of the clitoris), but his partner dismisses it using the same rhetoric that alternative medicine proponents use to dismiss conventional medicine -- framing well-established scientific knowledge as just one "belief system" among many.
The comic makes a pointed argument: if you reject the evidence-based approach in medicine, there is no principled reason not to reject it everywhere else, and the results would be equally unsatisfying. It also touches on the real-world issue of sexual education and how ignorance about anatomy (particularly female anatomy) persists even when evidence is readily available.
The votey shows someone saying "It'''s right here!" (presumably pointing to anatomical evidence) while the woman dismisses them as a "Western chauvinist!" -- parodying how some alternative medicine advocates frame scientific medicine as culturally biased "Western" thinking rather than engaging with the evidence itself.