# Death is not an option: Sex: The followup **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 22, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053 "2011-12-22T05:51:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/41 "2011-12-22T19:01:07Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > If you or your mom ever told one person then it’d get out. It’s the kind of thing that would. > > ‘Really icky’ is not the right phrase, you know. Maybe it is for you, but you make it sound like being obliged to eat brussel sprouts when you don’t really like them. What you do then is put a bunch of “cry wolf” updates on your Facebook page “Just ate a dog poo sandwich. Yum!” "FYI, freebasing anti-freeze doesn’t work well at all “At a Taylor Swift concert. Wooooo!” “Totally boned my mom like she was going out of style!” See? All it gets is a few rolleyes at that point. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/42 "2011-12-22T19:09:25Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > What you do then is put a bunch of “cry wolf” updates on your Facebook page > > “Just ate a dog poo sandwich. Yum!” > "FYI, freebasing anti-freeze doesn’t work well at all > “At a Taylor Swift concert. Wooooo!” > “Totally boned my mom like she was going out of style!” > > See? All it gets is a few rolleyes at that point. Heh. 😃 OK then - nobody ever, ever finds out; you’re OK with lying to everyone about this. Your parent’s still fucked up. Any parent who weren’t fucked up by having sex with their kid would have to have been fucked up in a different way already. They’d cope a lot better if it were something like preventing you going blind, but it wouldn’t be merely ‘really icky’ to them. The OP probably should have used the same phrasing as the other thread if he wanted a comparison, btw. I bet the people agreeing to fuck their parents for money aren’t all imagining a night of ‘marathon sex.’ ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/43 "2011-12-22T19:12:21Z")
If fucking your parents is so repulsive that you’d rather go blind or lose all of your body function, it shouldn’t matter if it’s marathon sex or not. It’s apparently the worst thing that could possibly happen to you - what does a few hours matter? Yes, your relationship with your parents would be strained, but if this was a gun to your head situation, if you’re all reasonable adults you can get over it. If not, it’s still better than having them clean you shit for the rest of your life because you can’t move anything below your neck. That strains your relationship too. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/44 "2011-12-22T19:24:21Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > If fucking your parents is so repulsive that you’d rather go blind or lose all of your body function, it shouldn’t matter if it’s marathon sex or not. It’s apparently the worst thing that could possibly happen to you - what does a few hours matter? > > Yes, your relationship with your parents would be strained, but if this was a gun to your head situation, if you’re all reasonable adults you can get over it. If not, it’s still better than having them clean you shit for the rest of your life because you can’t move anything below your neck. That strains your relationship too. I was talking about the people who chose the money options. I already said that choosing that over blindness is something that more people would understand and that your parent would get over more easily. It’s almost like you’re not reading my posts even when you’re responding to them. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/45 "2011-12-22T19:25:15Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > It’s almost like you’re not reading my posts even when you’re responding to them. Maybe he went blind. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/46 "2011-12-22T20:06:51Z")
Wow, this _is_ a bizarre thread and it’s definitely not the OP’s fault. I knew what his point was and I stopped reading the other thread less than 10 posts in. And by the way **SenorBeef** , don’t act surprised that there are such delicate flowers here, you’ve been here long enough to already know this. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/47 "2011-12-22T20:14:47Z")
Who would have thought a poll about fucking your parents would spawn such passion? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/48 "2011-12-22T22:21:38Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > . . . People in the other thread reacted as if it was the easiest decision in the world. And I’m wondering if that’s because people didn’t think losing sex for the rest of their lives wasn’t that big a deal . . . This. Never having sex is a little like never having Beef Wellington. It would be nice to have Beef Wellington, but it isn’t any kind of personal catastrophe not to have it. Sex is far from a biological need! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/49 "2011-12-22T22:27:12Z")
But no matter what, no matter what possible stretch of your fevered imagination you throw at me as an alternative… I’m not fucking my uncle! Never! I’d rather share a sleeping bag with a 500 pound tarantula and chug-a-lug a drano milkshake! (After Tom Weller.) I got that kind of uncle… ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/50 "2011-12-22T22:38:26Z")
I’ve got one, and I kind of want to make my own thread for it, but it’ll probably get shut down as being a trend or a parody thread, or something… Would you have sex with your mom/dad to save the life of your child who is CERTAIN to die in the next month otherwise? ---
**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 22, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/51 "2011-12-22T23:02:53Z")
I’d rather test **SenorBeef’s** theoretical from the other thread- would you rather have sex with a parent or eat a marathon session of cockroaches? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/52 "2011-12-23T02:23:25Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > . . . Would you have sex with your mom/dad to save the life of your child who is CERTAIN to die in the next month otherwise? No… But you could start increasing the time-frame, and eventually I would have to say yes. For one extra month of the child’s life, no. Six months? Two years? Six years? Damn… The principle is valid: life is more precious than even the most profound level of personal dignity. The limiting principle is: too short a life hardly counts as a life at all. Put another way: what level of pain would you accept, in order to live for another two months? Mild sciatica? Agonizing muscle cramps? Excruciating facial-nerve pain? Below a certain quality of life, is life worth living? Are we calibrating…or negotiating? ---
**Author:** ![Comicenbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Comicenbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Comicenbe)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/53 "2011-12-23T02:57:28Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > In most of those situations, my mom would be the one insisting on it. “My son, a paraplegic, or else we schtup? We schtup!” > > And she’d probably demand 90% of that million. Sigh. hahahaha ---
**Author:** ![palacheck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/54 "2011-12-23T11:46:19Z")
The stakes in the other incest thread weren’t high enough so **SenorBeef** decided to raise them to “engage in incest or else be horribly maimed for life”? Oh **SenorBeef** , your jib is finely cut, sir. I checked every box after the ones involving money and before the one about refusing to have sex with my own mother. I pride myself on my stick-to-it-ive-ness. But let me raise the stakes further **Senor** : do we have to…finish? Because, I mean, my mother is in her 90s and I don’t know if I could. Can I close my eyes and think of Amy Adams? If so I think I’m back in the game. ---
**Author:** ![BleizDu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@BleizDu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BleizDu)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/55 "2011-12-23T12:12:07Z")
This thread is beginning to remind me of that novel I just read which is partly about a nutter whose kink is to force fathers to do anal on their 9yo sons or else he kills the kid. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/56 "2011-12-24T18:30:33Z")
> [@BleizDu](#): > > This thread is beginning to remind me of that novel I just read which is partly about a nutter whose kink is to force fathers to do anal on their 9yo sons or else he kills the kid. What’s the title? Need answer fast! ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/57 "2011-12-24T20:02:03Z")
My father molested me when I was six and my life has been pretty well fucked up due to this so I don’t know, I guess I’d take just about anything over those memories. I guess the only thing worse would be him doing the same thing to one of my daughters. Didn’t vote though. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/58 "2011-12-24T20:27:48Z")
Just pointing out that complying to sex with someone under duress or threat of harm is **not** consensual. So, for example, if someone said “Fuck him or I’ll pour acid in your eyes,” I might opt for the sex, but I’m sure as hell not **consenting** and it’s still sexual assault. (And if I see a third option, like throwing the acid in that person’s face and running like hell, that’s the one I’m going for.) Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Peeta\_Mellark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Peeta\_Mellark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peeta_Mellark)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/59 "2011-12-24T20:44:30Z")
Absolutely, **Kaio**. Under threat of violence or disability, whatever you do in compliance is not “consensual.” ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex-the-followup/607053/60 "2011-12-24T21:38:30Z")
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