# Death is not an option: Sex **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 20, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892 "2011-12-20T21:50:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/21 "2011-12-21T01:50:06Z")
Theoretically I’d go for one night of horror in exchange for enjoying the rest of my life. But then when I think about the practicality… No. Oh god no. No no no no no. > [@Senegoid](#): > > This didn’t end well for [Oedipus](http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html). He loved his mother like No other His daughter was his sister And his son was his brother. When he found what he had done He tore his eyes out one by one. A tragic end for a loyal son Who _loved_ his mother. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/22 "2011-12-21T02:03:00Z")
My mother is in her 70’s. I already don’t want to have sex with women that old who aren’t my mother, so adding in the parent thing makes it no contest. Going by the way the OP is worded, if I declined to sex mom on down, that’d still leave me a plethora of masturbating options beginning at beating off over free internet porn and extending all the way up to $10k Real Dolls. I’d have to take the bopping the bologna option over incesticating and the inevitable suicide that would follow. ---
**Author:** ![Bloodless\_Turnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@Bloodless\_Turnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bloodless_Turnip)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/23 "2011-12-21T02:11:28Z")
That one was easy. I can’t believe how many people picked door one. Makes me glad I’m celibate - seriously. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/24 "2011-12-21T02:14:54Z")
This was a tough and thoroughly agonizing decision. Given that I have a paper bag to put over my head and I can mentally drift off to Never, Neverland, I might be able to withstand the former. Diddling myself is just not that much fun after a while. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/25 "2011-12-21T02:19:36Z")
‘tis gon’ be a long ~30 years ☹ No more sex forever for me. Or tonight either, thanks :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/26 "2011-12-21T02:23:26Z")
Why do you have to limit it to opposite sex parent? My dad’s a looker! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/27 "2011-12-21T02:36:48Z")
Hell, let’s finish squicking out everyone completely. Replace parent with child.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Bloodless\_Turnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@Bloodless\_Turnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bloodless_Turnip)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/28 "2011-12-21T02:47:51Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Hell, let’s finish squicking out everyone completely. > > Replace parent with child.:eek: Now I’m going to be celibate in my next life also, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/29 "2011-12-21T02:56:14Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Hell, let’s finish squicking out everyone completely. > > Replace parent with child.:eek: I’d rather put a bullet through my head. ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/30 "2011-12-21T03:00:45Z")
I just want to know who the 16 people who would have sex with their parents are. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/31 "2011-12-21T03:40:17Z")
[Samir] It’s horrible, this poll. [/Samir] ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/32 "2011-12-21T04:26:18Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > I just want to know who the 16 people who would have sex with their parents are. This is a message board not a dating site. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/33 "2011-12-21T04:27:51Z")
Bunch of father-rapers and mother-stabbers around here. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/34 "2011-12-21T04:37:50Z")
Option 2. …Wait, this was supposed to be hard? (One of the clinchers for me was the fact that it was supposed to be “marathon” sex. Opposite sex parent aside, I just couldn’t DO the marathon thing. Some magazine had a list of “things every couple should do at some point in their relationship,” and one of them was “have sex all day.” Are you kidding me? I could MAYBE do it twice. After that we’d be looking at skin grafts.) ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/35 "2011-12-21T04:41:40Z")
I stopped having sex over a decade ago, so the answer was easy. Actually it would have been an easy answer no matter what. Sex (as fun as it can be) was never \*\*that \*\*important to me, also given the messed up relationship I already have with my mother, yeah a life time of celibacy is fine. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/36 "2011-12-21T04:44:53Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > This is a message board not a dating site. I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/37 "2011-12-21T05:07:32Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > Bunch of father-rapers and mother-stabbers around here. I’m old enough to have laughed at this. As to the poll…I’m thinking. (To be fair, my dad’s pretty hot for a 63 year-old, and has a great personality.) ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/38 "2011-12-21T05:19:30Z")
There are so, so many things other than penis —\> vagina (or —\> anus, if you swing that way) that can keep me more than happy for the rest of my life, so I’ll forgo sex and live out the rest of my days blissfully unaware of how my father is in the sack, thank you very much. If you were including more than penetrative sexual intercourse in the definition of “sex” for the purposes of this poll… well, you should have been more specific. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/39 "2011-12-21T05:22:27Z")
My husband might be annoyed, but I picked door #2. Not that he’d be at all happy with door #1, either. Either way, I’d probably be looking at divorce. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892/40 "2011-12-21T05:33:37Z")
I’m pretty much on my way to no sex again ever. Of course since both my parents are dead, adding the necro element is a real cincher. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-is-not-an-option-sex/606892.md?page=3)