Editing 1564: Every Seven Seconds

{{comic
| number    = 1564
| date      = August 14, 2015
| title     = Every Seven Seconds
| image     = every_seven_seconds.png
| titletext = Every few months, I think about sex every seven seconds and how weird and implausible it would be.
}}

==Explanation==
{{Incomplete|More detail needed, explain sociologist joke, explain Cueball's thinking more, correct title text explanation.}}

There is an oft-stated {{w|urban myth}} that men think about sex every seven seconds. See for example this [http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140617-how-often-do-men-think-about-sex BBC article], where they say that a more realistic number is 19 times in a waking day, i.e. once every 50 minutes.

In this comic [[Cueball]] is a {{w|sociologist}}, and the thought bubbles show his train of thoughts regarding this myth. First of all is a flat denial that it could be true, and progressively move to the effects if it were true, and then considering how it would even be studied. The title of the comic ''(Every seven seconds)'' hints strongly that this is the subject he is thinking about, which is subsequently confirmed in the caption.

The setup is that thinking about sex every seven seconds would be dysfunctional and unproductive in addition to making working, social interactions, etc... nearly impossible as explained by the sociologists thoughts. The punch line is that thinking about how ridiculous it is to think about sex every seven seconds is just as dysfunctional and unproductive even if the thought time is spent refuting the original notion as understood in third person 

The entire comic utilizes irony, in that, by thinking about how impossible thinking about how men think about sex every seven seconds every seven seconds, the sociologist is, in fact, thinking about sex every seven seconds, albeit in a roundabout way.

Both the punchline and the title text are written by a narrator (Randall?), not by Cueball the sociologist. In the title text, the narrator says he regularly thinks about how implausible it would be to have sex every seven seconds. The title text could also be implying that the narrator thinks about sex every few months with a possible interpretation that it would be weird and implausible to have sex at all. See possible interpretations below:

In the title text, the narrator's statement leaves some meaning up to interpretation:
* Every few months, I think about "sex" every seven seconds [in one day, i.e. 8200 times that day] and how weird and implausible [having intercourse] would be.
** Implying that narrator's sex life is not very active.
* Every few months, I think about "sex every seven seconds" and how weird and implausible [having intercourse every seven seconds] would be.
** Having sex every seven seconds is implausible.
* Every few months, I think about "sex" every seven seconds and how weird and implausible [such an assertion] would be.
** This interpretation is a bit paradoxical, because it implies that the narrator finds himself thinking about the very thing he dismisses as a possibility to think about so often.
* Every few months, I think about "sex every seven seconds and how weird and implausible [such an assertion] would be."
** The narrator's thinks about that very line every few months

==Transcript==
:Cueball is thinking while walking.

:''There’s no way that’s true.''
:''It would interfere with basic cognition.''
:''Such a ridiculous view of masculinity.''
:''How would you even <em>study</em> that?''

:Text below the picture: Every seven seconds, sociologists think about that made-up statistic about how often men think about sex.

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