Never. I don’t care how good she is at handjobs and blowjobs (are we back in high school now?) or her other lovely attributes, Tab A has to go in Slut B or Evil ain’t happy.
Straight female. I have to have the real deal. I had a brief relationship with a guy who had weird psychological problems about actual intercourse… he was a master of everything else, but I still supplemented with toys when he wasn’t around. Dumped him as soon as a more capable prospect came along.
Yep, been there and done that. In a relationship, sex is far from the most important thing.
A one off without penetration is kinda pointless though.
I would be quite satisfied. I’d kinda actually prefer it.
I’ve done it, and while it was frustrating, it may not be a deal-breaker in a future relationship, depending on other things, including how long the relationship was and where it was going. I’d have to think fairly long and hard (ha!) about it, though.
Female, straight, married. Doing it right now (Well, not right now, but you know…) I think it can be great, slows things down, is more of a sensual and relaxed experience. No complaints here.
Like oral only and no digital or toy penetration? Probably not so much. I really like my partner inside me in some way. No penis is required, though.
Please feel free to use mine anytime 
Transmissions, stick shifts, books telling you how to do things… 
Could we get together sometime?
I wasn’t forgetting you. It was simply unwieldy to include you without bringing sex toys into the equation, and I didn’t want to talk about that.
If I started a poll titled “Would you have rather sex with Taye Diggs or Brad Pitt?”, would you expect an option for straight men and lesbians?
There’s also a lot more to sex than handjobs and oral. That’s really the key to my answer (definitely no): it’s not about vaginal intercourse somehow being inherently superior; I wouldn’t be satisfied with just it either. I like my sex varied. Just manual and oral is too small a subset of all possible sex acts for me to be satisfied.
Ditto.
Right and I get that. I own some toys.
I have what I think may be a unique perspective on this. Being single for a really, really long time, I have had plenty of experience with my Battery Operated Boyfriend.
I don’t want to have anything to do with toys in the bedroom when there is another person in there. I want from the live, breathing human that which I cannot get from the B.O.B.: kissing, holding, caressing, laughing, joking, licking, nibbling… etc. (And then there needs to be a nice hard dick in there somewhere to finish me off.) Don’t just pull out the toys… if I wanted a perfunctory, functional orgasm, I’d just get the toy out myself. What the fuck do I need a partner for, if I’m just going to fuck my vibrator?
So yeah. If I’m going to have sex with someone else, there has to be PIV penetration involved or I might as well just throw the guy out and go get B.O.B outta the drawer. I should add, I might not even get off from PIV penetration – it’s the actual penetration, with a real, live, sweaty man behind it, that I find satisfying. I don’t care about the orgasm. I can meet up with B.O.B. later if I need to take care of that.
I know, I know, lots of couples use toys as part of their repertoire. Goody for all of you. For me, the human penis has a purpose (well, a few, actually, but just one that I’m concerned about) and the rabbit has another purpose and to use them together sort of defeats the purpose for either (in my own twisted little brain). I think, for me, it’s about the intimacy of being with another person, rather than two people just getting off. So the PIV penetration, for some reason, is key to establishing that. For me.
If my partner couldn’t do it for some reason, then sure, we can make that work. If they could and simply wouldn’t, then I couldn’t have a satisfying sex life like that.
Why do you need to bring sex toys into it?
Lesbians also have sex, so aren’t automatically excluded from a question about sex like they are with questions about sex with men.
Besides, it’s not like I was genuinely annoyed. ‘Silly Skald!’ isn’t something you say as a genuine admonishment.
Female: Possibly, but it would depend on <blank>.
And for me “blank” is “whether ‘manual’ involves any kind of penetration with fingers and/or toys.” [TMI ALERT] I only recently discovered that I could even get off from anything but oral or manual stimulation, but even before that, PIV sex was enjoyable in a different way, even without orgasms. Do I prefer to have it in the mix? Yes. Could I live without it if I had to? Also yes.
Male, and I voted yes. My last relationship had no vaginal or oral sex, and was still wildly more sexual than any of the previous ones that included those.
I have an unsatisfying sex life with a partner who will not do oral or manual sex, only intercourse. I imagine it would be just as unsatisfying if it were flipped.
But since this is hypothetical, I get to imagine that I have a willing partner. If I could get blowjobs on demand and go down on her all I want, I think I could go without intercourse. This assumes that the blowjobs are good and that she enjoys what I do for her also.