honest-sex-ed
Explanation
The Joke
A teacher stands before a class giving what is billed as "honest" sex education. The first panel begins normally enough: "Welcome to sex ed, kids." But the honesty quickly goes off the rails. The teacher explains that "when two people get courtshipped and do fun stuff," a student challenges "Holding hands is fun? I said fun, not what you call fun. That's fun?" The teacher then abandons all pretense of the standard curriculum and states: "Actually, the goal of sex is to maximize your to-do score, governed by the sum of biases, stats, your age and..." -- turning sex ed into what sounds like a game theory optimization problem.
The final panels show parents in the audience reacting with alarm, then pivoting to "Okay, let's discuss clinginess," suggesting the "honest" version of sex ed would really be about the messy emotional and strategic realities of relationships rather than the sanitized biological basics.
The Humor
The humor comes from the gap between what sex education officially covers (biology, health, consent) and what an actually "honest" version would address (the confusing, game-theoretic, emotionally fraught reality of human mating behavior). By having the teacher speak in terms of optimization and scoring, the comic satirizes both the inadequacy of traditional sex ed and the reductive way that evolutionary psychology or dating advice culture frames human relationships. The parents' discomfort mirrors society's broader unwillingness to have genuinely honest conversations about the messy realities of sex and relationships.