To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

Framed as a risqué witticism, the line trades on a stereotype about sexual competition and the desire to be the exception: by claiming impotence, the speaker supposedly triggers a partner’s curiosity and ego (“I can prove you wrong”). As with many attributed Hollywood quips, its appeal lies in its inversion of expected seduction tactics—projecting vulnerability or deficiency as a lure rather than a liability. Read critically, it also reflects mid‑century gender assumptions and a comic tradition that treats heterosexual courtship as a game of manipulation and conquest, with women’s agency reduced to a predictable reflex.