And just what is "the real thing"? And please don't bore us with the "true love" argument. If we all sat around waiting for true love to have sex, there'd be tons of frustrated people in the world, and probably more violence and hostility than there already is.
ah it was a crappy attempt at a joke... I really do suck. Adam Corolla used to have this joke or whatever about masturbation. He would say that yeah sex is good....but it's not the real thing! (referring to masturbations as being 'the real thing')
I think it was originally coined by Woody Allen - "Sex is great, but it's not as good as the real thing".