# Are Vulcans lousy in the sack? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-vulcans-lousy-in-the-sack/199895 "2003-09-06T05:54:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-vulcans-lousy-in-the-sack/199895/41 "2003-09-09T04:38:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tommyturtle \* > **I’d hope that would be every seven years you HAD to do the nasty but nothing is stopping you from doing it at any other time as well…ponn farr as sort of an ice breaker…if you knew you would HAVE to have sex every so often you could rationalize since that’s true why not do it at other times as well?** Because, by all accounts, Vulcans find the ponn farr, and sex in general, to be shameful and depraved. They have sex because, if they don’t, they’ll die. ---
**Author:** ![TigoleBitties](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TigoleBitties](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TigoleBitties)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-vulcans-lousy-in-the-sack/199895/42 "2003-09-09T04:47:02Z")
You guys assume that Vulcan women/men go without sex for 7 years…maybe on the other hand they have to recuperate for 7 years! I had my moments of wild gorilla sex where I couldn’t lift the arms or pelvis at any more than a slight angle. Maybe hot Ponn Farr will knock you out for a serious amount of time. I mean Spock always seemed to walk with a stick up his ass…and I know I don’t do any flying high kicks after a 9 hour happy time with Mrs Bitties and her best portrayal of Cavegirl, so maybe the ol Vulcan metabolism sinks em to repair and recover. ---
**Author:** ![Tommyturtle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Tommyturtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommyturtle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-vulcans-lousy-in-the-sack/199895/43 "2003-09-09T07:33:34Z")
**Captain Amazing** Like I said maybe it’s not the sex…maybe its something the elders cooked up since as an unintended side effect of the suppressing of their emotions they were running out of lil’ Vulcans Perhaps the driving force of Ponn Farr is the mind link(if it was just the sex they could get that most anywhere) and while they are there they are so um…discombobulated they go at it like bunnies…which was the intended thing to happen anyways…sure they don’t like OUTSIDERS knowing their private sexual business but that doesn’t mean among themselves they are ashamed of their urges…procreation is after all very logical(doesn’t mean they want the neighbors watching though) ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-vulcans-lousy-in-the-sack/199895/44 "2003-09-09T10:19:19Z")
Maybe the seven year span is why they say “Live long and prosper.” You have to do the first one to do the second one procreation wise. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-vulcans-lousy-in-the-sack/199895/45 "2003-09-09T10:49:23Z")
I don’t see how sex with **T’Pol** could possibly be bad. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-vulcans-lousy-in-the-sack/199895/46 "2003-09-09T13:32:54Z")
It’s funny I should run across this thread. I just dreamed that I had sex with Leonard Nimoy two nights ago! Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-vulcans-lousy-in-the-sack/199895/47 "2003-09-09T15:22:48Z")
I KNOW I read something from one of the writers of TOS saying the “only every seven years” people are wrong – the implication, like some have said, is that they MUST every seven years, but they can at any other time they want. Unfortunately, I forget the name of said writer – it was a woman, but I am completely blanking on her name. Sex with Leonard? Um…right…sure… ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-vulcans-lousy-in-the-sack/199895/48 "2003-09-09T16:23:43Z")
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