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bandwidth

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bandwidth
Votey panel for bandwidth
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Explanation

This comic is about "bandwidth" in the context of dirty talk during sex. In the first panel, a couple is in bed, with a caption explaining that the man died of "organ failure" and "catastrophic degradation" which his wife described as him dying "horny." In the second panel, a presenter shows a graph demonstrating that a person "can emit over 3000 words of dirty talk during a 3-minute sexual encounter" -- framing sexual vocalizations in terms of data bandwidth. The audience member's response of "Nice" plays on the dual meaning: approving of the impressive data throughput rate and approving of the sexual context.

The humor lies in treating human sexual behavior as an information-throughput problem, applying dry technical language and data analysis to something inherently intimate and emotional. The comic satirizes the tendency to quantify everything, even deeply personal experiences.

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