Love & Passion Quote by Joan Rivers

A dirty joke with a scalpel under it: Rivers turns sexual drought into a power struggle, then punctures the whole thing with one neat twist. The line isn’t really about bondage; it’s about status. “Who ties up who” frames sex as negotiation and leverage, not romance, and the punchline is the humiliation of forgetting the rules of engagement entirely. She makes herself the butt of the joke, but she doesn’t make herself small. She’s still the narrator, still controlling the terms, still deciding what gets revealed and what gets mocked.

The subtext is classic Rivers: female desire treated as obvious, impatient, and unembarrassed, while the culture insists older women should fade politely into non-sexual wallpaper. By exaggerating the absence (“so long since...”) she surfaces the taboo without pleading for sympathy. The laugh comes from the speed of the reversal: you expect a complaint about loneliness; you get a kink-coded image of dominance and submission, then the comic shame of being out of practice. It’s self-deprecation that doubles as accusation: why should anyone be “so long” without sex, and why is that especially legible as a joke when a woman says it?

Context matters: Rivers built a career on turning her own body, aging, and social punishment into material before “sex-positive” became a respectable label. The line works because it’s both confession and retaliation, a reminder that propriety is just another costume she refuses to wear.