I find this more relateable than what seems healthy
It took me a while for this to click. I feel like i havent heard that terminology since the early 2000s. Any idea if its still how the youths talk?
Why the sparkly background?
Wait… Does your third base not look like that?
I don’t get it.
In the classic baseball sex analogy, a home run is full intercourse. There is a progression of bases 1 through 3 on the way to home plate, different people will call different foreplay sex acts different base numbers.
The joke here is that the poster is calling being vulnerable enough to show a potential partner their panicked state is equivalent to the level of foreplay immediately before intercourse.
Hope this helps and/or ruined the joke
Good explanation without being demeaning.
To add on to this, there are a bunch of variations to the joke in either direction of each extreme.
Example:
1st base: Eye contact 2nd base: Said your name 3rd base: Accidentally touching hands 4th base: Intentional hand holding
Thank you kind stranger! I didn’t understand how panic attacks could fit into the analogy but that kind of makes sense.
