2012-10-04
Explanation
This comic charts the escalating complexity of a person's "sex plan" as a function of how long it has been since their last sexual encounter. Ten minutes after: the plan is a simple two-step flowchart ("Start Sex" to "Finish Sex"). Ten hours after: the plan adds branching paths with "outdoor track" and "indoor track." Ten days after: the flowchart has exploded into a complicated diagram involving hormone profile analysis, occupation selection, hotels, holidays, fire, Star Wars, and more. One hundred days after: the plan has become a nightmarish web of interconnected nodes referencing inverse renormalization, P=NP, Prussia, glass harmonicas, epigenetics, preemptive war, and an incidental proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
The final panel shows the planner in an elaborate costume telling a bewildered companion, "It involves scuba, time travel, spermaceti, and NO MORE TALKING!" The humor lies in the exaggerated depiction of how sexual frustration breeds increasingly baroque and overthought seduction plans, satirizing the way people can overthink romance and intimacy to the point of absurdity. The inclusion of famously unsolvable math problems and obscure academic references in the flowcharts underscores the comic's point: the longer you go without sex, the more your planning devolves from practical action into deranged intellectual spiraling.