Sometimes, when me and the wife are out, I’ll pick out a couple, for instance, a starchy, straight looking, fundamentalist-type couple and I’ll say to my wife, “Can you imagine them having sex.” In the world there are numerous combinations that make this fun. I do it all the time, my wife hates it. Has anyone else done this?
My husband does something similar. He’ll pick some couple that’s decidedly mismatched, maybe she’s 50 but has pink hair and dresses like she thinks that she’s still 18 but the husband is maybe 55, looks like he’s 75 and is wearing a torn t-shirt with a stain that doesn’t quite cover his beer gut, and has plumber butt going on in his low-slung pants. Then he’ll lean over to me and say “Imagine them…” and go on to describe some rather outre sexual act, usually involving toys that are illegal in Texas or trapezes or monkeys or something.
I have no idea why he thinks this is funny. I’ll admit that I do occasionally giggle solely at the ridiculousness of the scenes he describes, but really, I think a.) if they want to get it on with a sex swing and a boa constrictor, that’s their business and b.) people probably look at him and me together and think that we’re a strange couple, so who are we to talk or laugh?
Note to self: Do NOT play this game with wife.
Vlad/Igor
Female checking in.
My boyfriend Mudshark and I play games like that all the time, and both of us get a big kick out of it. (Some other favorites are the “you see that guy over there? If _____ and _____ mated and produced offspring, he’d be that offspring” game, and the “whoever can count ten people with attractive/unattractive looking ____'s first wins” game). I think things like that are relatively harmless–people tease me to my face about how mismatched Mudshark and I are, and it never really bothers me…so I can’t see how joking just between the two of us is a big deal–considering it’s only in fun and nobody else is in on it anyway.
Actually, now that I think about it, I probably initiate games like this more times than he does.
I’ve played a variation of that game with individuals, not couples. Some of the most boring lectures and graduate seminars were livened up by going around the room and imagining what each person might look like when they have an orgasm. Of course when you get around to shriveled-up old professors the game can get more frightening than anything else.
Playing that type of game with an SO is fun, and intimate in a odd way. You start to think about you and your partner must look when you’re having sex. And being able to laugh about it together is great.
Hm.
My problem is that if I did that regularly with MY wife, either she or I might begin to wonder what WE look like while having sex.
Bursting out laughing while in midcoitus is not exactly conducive to the mood…