2013-12-13
Explanation
The Joke
The comic is titled "'Sexual Maturity' Explained" and presents a graph. The x-axis is labeled "Age" and the y-axis is labeled "Concern that the sexy pizza boy in your fantasy actually did bring a pizza." The line on the graph stays flat and near zero during youth, then curves sharply upward as age increases, suggesting that as people get older, they become increasingly concerned with the practical, mundane details of their sexual fantasies -- specifically, whether the pizza delivery person in a classic adult film scenario actually brought the pizza they ordered.
The Humor
The joke plays on the well-known trope from adult films where a pizza delivery person arrives and a sexual encounter ensues, with the pizza itself being completely irrelevant to the plot. The comic defines "sexual maturity" not as some profound biological or psychological milestone, but as the point at which a person starts caring more about the pizza than the sexual scenario. This is a commentary on aging: as people get older, practical concerns ("Did I actually get the food I paid for?") begin to outweigh sexual excitement. The exponential growth of the curve at older ages suggests that eventually, the pizza becomes far more important than the fantasy itself. It is a humorous take on how priorities shift with age and how "maturity" might really just mean caring more about mundane comforts than exciting fantasies.