It was a bad analogy WRT not using technology, its a fail as I believe the push up is considerably higher tech than the padded, or at least a more respectable mechanical engineering challenge. It is a perfectly good analogy as an example of not using mere larger numbers as a success metric and not trying to maximize shallowness of interaction as a success metric. So about 90% correct but specific word choice was not ideal.

That and the commentary on condoms made it look like he was aiming for a dating scene series of analogies and changed his mind half way thru without completely changing the tone of the article. It does appear to have started as a post about dating advice and morphed into a networking post. #1 is about one night stands, #2 is about putting notches on the bedpost, #3 is a bit of personal bias about not liking adult toys or group activities, which is his loss. This analogy also makes the self-selection bias assumption that is probably wrong, in that most of the people participating are either exhibitionists or those who enjoy taking a harmless look at exhibitionists, and most definitely are not a self selected crowd interested in church approved premarital counseling and abstinence only young adult education, so pushing those unpopular outlooks is unlikely to interest the audience. In both the article or my dating analogy of the article.