# Anyone successfully use a logical argument to convince your partner into having sex?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-successfully-use-a-logical-argument-to-convince-your-partner-into-having-sex/607696>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 29, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-successfully-use-a-logical-argument-to-convince-your-partner-into-having-sex/607696 "2011-12-29T03:37:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-successfully-use-a-logical-argument-to-convince-your-partner-into-having-sex/607696/21 "2011-12-30T08:46:24Z")

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“My ship sails at dawn” That logic didn’t work when I was active duty and my ship actually did sail at dawn. It still didn’t work when I was a reservist drilling in Las Vegas and used the line outside the former Showboat or lesser-know Paddlewheel casinos.  
Maybe I’ll try “Ya know, baby, there’s a Dope thread/poll we could respond to but we have to have sex first, for the sake of honesty and accuracy.”

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**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-successfully-use-a-logical-argument-to-convince-your-partner-into-having-sex/607696/22 "2011-12-30T18:46:59Z")

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No, but a serious student of logic can absolutely argue his way to a Vulcan hand job. They use the Spock sign grip to finish you off.

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**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:** [December 30, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-successfully-use-a-logical-argument-to-convince-your-partner-into-having-sex/607696/23 "2011-12-30T18:50:55Z")

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“Have sex with me, and you’ll be able to honestly say to all your future partners that they were nowhere _near_ the worst you’ve ever had.”

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**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-successfully-use-a-logical-argument-to-convince-your-partner-into-having-sex/607696/24 "2011-12-30T20:01:35Z")

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When faced with a potential new partner, and she’s doing the whole “I want to, but I can’t. We just met.” thing, I always had success with “If you want to, you should. If you don’t, you shouldn’t. But if you want to and you don’t…well, that’s just a mistake.”

They always realize that they do, in fact, want to have sex, and so their logic never gets to the “…but…” part.

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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-successfully-use-a-logical-argument-to-convince-your-partner-into-having-sex/607696/25 "2011-12-30T20:58:10Z")

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I’m reminded of something I ran across online the other day:

Wife: “My gynecologist says I can’t have sex for two weeks!”  
Husband: “What did your dentist say?”

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