Could you have a satisfying sex life with a partner who would only do oral & manual?

Yes, I find this nearly all of the time. Intercourse is great for feeling close, but when I want to pop off I want a mouth or hand.

Eh, I went years getting neither pussy nor mouth, so there’s been plenty of time in my life when the proposed offering would have been an upgrade.

Nope. Gotta have the penis. When I’m getting off, I like to have something in there to clamp down on. :: blush :: TMI?

I’ve been there.

As good as oral and manual were, frankly, the little blue pills were a relationship saver.

missred (f)

Nope. I rarely get off from oral, and no offense, darling, but I’m better with my hands than you are. Either is just foreplay, as far as I’m concerned.

The OP describes the relationship I’ve happily been in for 23 years . . . except the “both give and receive” part. Some people are gifted “givers” and some people are gifted “takers.”

It’d be good, but not satisfying.

While I voted yes I think my partners satisfaction would have to be considered. If oral/manual was satisfying to her, it would be to me; if not satisfying for her, it wouldn’t be for me either. Sex is a two-way street.

Nope. Good perspective.

With the woman I’m with right now, I do a lot better job hitting that “special place” with my fingers than I do with my manroot, so she far prefers my more dexterious appendages. Takes all kinds–every woman is different.

As long as manual included foot jobs then yes.

I’d be fine with it. I’d actually rather give than receive anyway.

No…absolutely no.

Where does anal fall into this? I’m not saying it has to be a regular part of our relationship but at least once a year I would like it if you at least tried it.

I voted “possibly” I would enjoy it for the most part, but we would have to be a little adventurous in the other things we did to make it feel like I wasn’t just jerking off with your mouth.

I honestly don’t see why not. Can someone explain to me what PIV has over other forms of sex? I can’t really think of anything that would be physically different (at least, for guys). So is it some emotional thing?

And, honestly, solo sex is about 80% satisfying anyways–it’s the emotional intimacy that causes me to look for someone.

If this is a temporary solution to a temporary problem I could go for it.

Absolutely yes, but then I am a gay woman. And whilst we do occasionally engage in the strap on (have I got all the boys’ attention now?), it’s mainly reserved as a sideshow for those ‘let’s stay in bed all afternoon and work our way through the karma sutra’ occasions. I could easily live without it and still be quite satisfied, TYVM.

Yup - another lesbian here, so there’s never any penile penetration involved anyway. Silly Skald, forgetting us!

It would depend on the reason, I would consider that sub-optimal, but not an absolute deal breaker. Of course I might find out I was wrong.

Geez, I wake up, I check the Dope, and the first two ideas I’m confronted with are John McCain and Sarah Palin having sex, and never having sex again. The former made me, for a moment, inclined to consider the latter.

As others have mentioned, I’d be okay with it as a temporary thing, but I would have to love someone very, very much to accept it as a permanent condition of a relationship. I think I might also have to be old enough that “the rest of my life” is probably not that long, because to me no fucking is a pretty serious deprivation, and I need an end in sight.

ahem

It’s not just lesbians who can play with toys, y’know.

Just sayin’…