Humor & Life Quote by Margaret Smith

Weaponized bluntness, delivered with the tidy timing of a one-liner. Margaret Smith takes a topic usually wrapped in euphemism and medicalized language and drags it back into the messy human moment where sex actually happens: the instant someone has to decide, out loud, what they want. Calling "no" the "best contraceptive" is deliberately provocative because it hijacks the logic of product culture. We expect a device, a pill, a plan. She offers a word, and the joke is that the simplest tool is also the one people most resist honoring.

The subtext is equal parts empowerment and indictment. On one level, its intent is protective: keep saying no if you need to, because pressure often arrives in waves, not a single request. That "repeated frequently" lands like a laugh line but carries the grim recognition that consent is routinely treated as negotiable, something to be worn down. The repetition implies persistence on both sides: one person pushing, the other having to become a broken record.

As a comedian, Smith also knows how to smuggle critique past defensiveness. Framing consent as contraception exposes how often society offloads responsibility onto bodies (usually women's) and their medical compliance, while treating boundaries as optional. The punch is not anti-sex; it's anti-entitlement. It reframes prevention not as a clinical precaution but as a social skill: the courage to set limits, and the basic decency to accept them the first time.