She has a point. Kind of.
Sarah Silverman, like many women, is tired of countries that have laws in place preventing women from accessing safe and legal abortions.
During her routine on Sunday, she made a joke to the effect that if abortion can be outlawed because foetuses are alive – then the same must apply to male masturbation, which results in the termination of a whole lot of sperm.
Speaking at the Brooklyn Academy of Music “Here’s something that I learned that is fascinating, and it’s this: Scientists have found that sperms cells smell. Like I know sperm smells, but sperm cells have the sense of smell, and you know what that means: Sperm is life. And you know what that means: We’ve gotta legislate that shit.”
“What we’ll do is — it’s a real simple procedure. We take a really long needle-like basically GoPro camera and we put it down your penis hole, urethra … then down into your testicular sack. We’re going to show you the ultrasound, so you can see the life in your balls.”
“You would not believe the amount of men that do not want to jerk off after that.”
The Huffington Post looked into it and found there isn’t exactly all that much evidence to suggest that sperms can smell but it’s a pretty interesting analogy regardless.
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