# A Different body switching scenario **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 23, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910 "2016-03-23T01:26:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mikeritchie30](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@mikeritchie30](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeritchie30)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/1 "2016-03-23T01:26:04Z")
No its not a fetish as I’m sure some of you are thinking. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to become somebody else. No, not to have another body which I control. To literally internally metamorphisize into someone else. To be used like a vehicle or puppet or some type of object or tool by someone else. To fully be aware yet fully mentally and spiritually and physically controlled by another individual to the point where I was no longer me, but I was them. If you had that much control over me what would you do? How would you make me dress? What changes would you make? Here’s a little background info: I’m a 34 year old overweight man who lives at home with my family still because I’m mentally ill. I’m currently unemployed and single and I live in southern California a 2 hour drive from LA. So what would you do if right this instant you completely took me over and how long would you use me as your puppet if you somehow had the ability to do this? ---
**Author:** ![mikeritchie30](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@mikeritchie30](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeritchie30)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/2 "2016-03-23T01:30:49Z")
It would be great if I were taken over a woman and fully aware and fully mentally and physically controlled by her because if I ever gained control again I could be the first man in history who understood women and I could become a billionaire for writing a book about understanding women! ---
**Author:** ![mikeritchie30](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@mikeritchie30](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeritchie30)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/3 "2016-03-23T21:43:57Z")
Bump this up to the top again. It would be fun to have a second body I could borrow from time to time I think. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/4 "2016-03-24T17:58:28Z")
> [@mikeritchie30](#): > > I’m a 34 year old overweight man who lives at home with my family still because I’m mentally ill. I’m currently unemployed and single and I live in southern California a 2 hour drive from LA. So what would you do if right this instant you completely took me over and how long would you use me as your puppet if you somehow had the ability to do this? Well, the first thing I would say is, _“What the…hey!! This isn’t Naomi Watts!”_ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/5 "2016-03-24T18:12:01Z")
> [@mikeritchie30](#): > > It would be great if I were taken over a woman and fully aware and fully mentally and physically controlled by her because if I ever gained control again I could be the first man in history who understood women and I could become a billionaire for writing a book about understanding women! What makes you think that doing this would allow you to understand women? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/6 "2016-03-24T19:27:09Z")
When my wife and I reflected on trading bodies for a while, she said “I’d be afraid you wouldn’t give mine back”. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/7 "2016-03-24T19:36:06Z")
You should switch bodies with **Charlie Wayne**. ---
**Author:** ![mikeritchie30](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@mikeritchie30](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeritchie30)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/8 "2016-03-25T02:56:23Z")
I figure if a woman left her experiences of being a woman and how women think and act that I’d be able to explain to other men in a book how women really think and how to approach one and give great relationship advise. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/9 "2016-03-25T04:51:42Z")
I figure women have already written books like that by the hundreds, in every language known to humankind. What is it _you_ intend to contribute, again? ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/10 "2016-03-25T05:01:42Z")
Makes me think of Futurama where Bender becomes human, I could gorge on food, sex, and alcohol then rob a couple banks and send the money to my old body and then leave you to clean up the mess, nah I’m just kidding I’d help you whip your body into shape. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/11 "2016-03-25T05:25:13Z")
Malkovich Malkovich. Malkovich! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/12 "2016-03-25T05:41:20Z")
> [@mikeritchie30](#): > > I figure if a woman left her experiences of being a woman and how women think and act that I’d be able to explain to other men in a book how women really think and how to approach one and give great relationship advise. That would totally work because women are all exactly the same – take one over as a puppet, take 'em all over as a puppet. ---
**Author:** ![mikeritchie30](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@mikeritchie30](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeritchie30)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/13 "2016-03-25T21:20:32Z")
Thank you for all your comments , Keep them cming. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/14 "2016-03-26T22:22:25Z")
> [@mikeritchie30](#): > > No its not a fetish as I’m sure some of you are thinking. Methinks he doth protest too much. You want to be controlled, and you want us to describe what it is we do with your body. What is it you get out of this if not sexual arousal? In other words, why do you want to know? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/15 "2016-03-26T22:23:46Z")
BTW, people who have mental illnesses don’t typically refer to themselves as “mentally ill.” They name the illness. ---
**Author:** ![mikeritchie30](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@mikeritchie30](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeritchie30)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/16 "2016-03-27T20:30:52Z")
Schizoaffective disorder Trust me, I’m not making it up, If I were every I’ve successfully duped every doctor, psychiatrist, friend, and family member I’ve ever had lol. ---
**Author:** ![txjim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f07891/32.png) [@txjim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txjim)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-body-switching-scenario/749910/17 "2016-03-28T18:08:44Z")
I wish I could remember the name of the short story about changing bodies published in _Analog_ several years ago. It’s opening went something like: The first thing men do when taking over a woman’s body is feel their breasts. The first thing women do in a man’s body is pee standing up.