I saw this ad in the paper, "Safe Sex. Get Paid. Men 18 to 40." Sounds like the kind of scam I go for. So I call 'em up, and it's a guidebook to sperm banks. And I think: Why not get paid? After all, I've done charity work for so long.

Framed as a stand-up–style anecdote, the speaker recounts responding to a newspaper ad that appears dubious (“Sounds like the kind of scam I go for”), only to discover it points to sperm-bank donation. The humor hinges on self-deprecation and misdirection: “Safe Sex. Get Paid” reads like a shady proposition, but becomes a legitimate (if awkward) transaction. The closing line—“I’ve done charity work for so long”—recasts past sexual activity as unpaid “donation,” turning a potentially crude topic into a joke about compensation, commodification, and the thin line between altruism and profit. The quote also plays on modern anxieties about sex, safety, and money by collapsing them into a single punchline.