2012-09-30
Explanation
In this comic, a man tells his partner that he feels inadequate when she uses a dildo. She reassures him it "isn't the same," but he takes the conversation in an unexpected direction: the dildo is made of plastic, plastic is a petroleum product, and petroleum products are made from the remains of ancient megafauna like Tyrannosaurus, woolly mammoth, and saber-tooth tiger. Therefore, she can either have sex with "little hairless primate me" or with "trillions of the mightiest hunters that ever dominated the planet."
The woman responds, "Wow, I never thought of myself as a dinosexual," and the man replies, "All women are at least a little." The joke rests on a deliberately absurd chain of reasoning -- technically, petroleum does derive from ancient organic matter (though primarily from microscopic marine organisms rather than dinosaurs, which is itself a common misconception the comic plays on). The man's insecurity leads him to construct an elaborate logical chain that reframes a mundane object as the concentrated essence of prehistoric apex predators, making his inadequacy feel even more justified while coining the delightfully absurd term "dinosexual." The humor also plays on the stereotype of men overthinking perceived sexual competition.