The act of sex, gratifying though it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency. The whole ritual is a grotesque anachronism, an outdated testament to man's waning power. It's all we've got and so we make the best of it. It is not, however, sufficient reason for matrimony.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The act of sex, gratifying though it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency. The whole ritual is a grotesque anachronism, an outdated testament to man's waning power. It's all we've got and so we make the best of it. It is not, however, sufficient reason for matrimony." in the context of "Bette Davis, The Lonely Life: An Autobiography (1962), p. 251; quoted in part by Walter Winchell in "Pass the Worm Pills" Cincinnati Enquirer (January 20, 1963) and Liz Smith in "'Postman' Bares a Stamp of Sex," Daily News (1980), and by Davis herself—as simply "Sex is God's joke on human beings."—in This 'n' That (1987), p. 67" to mean that wisdom is timeless.