Love & Passion Quote by Tom Clancy

A clean, soldierly joke: Clancy takes the cultural script that marriage equals sexual proficiency and flips it into a deadpan confession of ignorance. The line works because it uses the authority of the “married man” as a setup, then punctures it with a punchline that’s half self-deprecation, half indictment. In Clancy’s hands, it’s not romantic comedy banter so much as a pragmatic quip about systems that look sturdy from the outside and grind from the inside.

The intent is disarming. By framing sex as something he “doesn’t know” precisely because he’s married, Clancy sidesteps bragging and invites laughter at the institution rather than at any individual partner. The subtext is a familiar marital détente: sex in long-term partnership can become negotiated, scheduled, freighted with fatigue, resentment, obligation, or simply the mundane press of daily life. The joke implies that “knowing about sex” is less about mechanics than about access, novelty, and confidence - things marriage, in stereotype at least, is said to ration.

Context matters because Clancy’s public brand was competence: technothriller mastery, procedural detail, men in hierarchies doing hard jobs. Dropping this line is a release valve, a reminder that even the guy who can diagram a submarine’s acoustic signature is helpless in the domestic theater. It’s also generational: a late-20th-century masculine posture that can admit vulnerability only through humor, turning intimacy into a one-liner and marital complexity into a wry shrug. The cynicism lands because it’s dressed as modesty.