2006-07-22
Explanation
This single-panel comic depicts a classic "parked car" romantic scene. A woman asks "Wait! Do you have any protection?" The man cheerfully responds: "Well, my mom said babies only come from two people who really love each other. So, I think we should be in the clear."
The humor comes from the man taking his mother'''s childhood-friendly explanation of reproduction as literal, scientific truth. When his partner asks about contraception, he interprets the naive birds-and-bees talk as an actual biological mechanism: since they presumably do not love each other deeply (this being a casual encounter), he reasons they are safe from pregnancy. The joke plays on the gap between innocent childhood sex education and the reality of how reproduction works.
The votey panel shows the woman responding with annoyed resignation: "Okay, then no falling in love while we'''re doing it!" This extends the absurdity by showing her playing along with his faulty logic rather than correcting him, treating "falling in love" as the actual risk factor to avoid, as if it were the real contraceptive concern.