as of this post, rougly 15% of you are seriously fucking disgusting.
Is this with our parents NOW…or when they were young and attractive?
If now…I’m not sure I could get it up.
I hope that at least SOME of those who chose option #1 did so as a joke. vomit
I’m seriously not getting how this even comes into play (I’ve seen a few people say stuff like this, not picking on you specifically). My willingness to do my dad is exactly the same whether he’s a hideous 80-year-old slob, or one of People magazine’s 50 most beautiful people of 2011 (zero willingness, before someone tries to get smart).
I’d consider going the rest of my life without sex, pretty much a slow death. In other words, ANYTHING would be better. It’s like Being tortured to death vs eating dog poop. Both terrible, but only one is FOREVER.
Less of an abstract situation for those of you who are weirded out by people who chose option 1: How many of you are fat? How hard would it be for you to stop eating the foods that are making you fat?
If you had to choose between a bare subsistence diet, like eating monkey chow and a few supplementary vitamin pills for the rest of your life, or eating one huge meal of the most bizarre and disgusting-looking foods, which would you choose?That’s pretty much the question being asked, with food as a substitute for sex.
Now think about the fact that as a guy in my late 30s — with a sex drive that is very noticeably lower than when I was in my teens and 20s — I’d still skip meals, sleep, and a list of other bodily needs in order to have sex. Hell, I’m a bit of a foodie and I’d gladly pass up a free meal at a Michelin 3-star restaurant in order to bang a hot chick. I’d probably pass the offer up in favor of having sex with my wife, who I’m reasonably certain I’d be able to get horizontal anytime the kid gives us a chance to. And while I’m a bit more of a horn-dog than some, my sex drive isn’t extraordinarily high compared to a few guys I’ve known.
The only way I’d buy the, “Ew, no way!” answers is if: A) You have a low to non-existent sex drive; B) You figure you probably aren’t going to be having sex anyway, so no big loss; C) You’re old, so point A or B probably applies anyway, plus you figure you’d rather not bang other old people anyway, or D) You’re giving the expected answer and like SenorBeef said, you’d be fucking your mother like a motherfucker 15 seconds after being shown the list of all the people you’d otherwise be exchanging bodily fluids with over the course of the rest of your life.
I’m just getting past my sexual prime and into “fuckable older guy” territory. Assuming the worst happens, I get divorced and have to start dating again, I’m still looking at passing up a WHOLE lot of sex over the next 40 years of remaining expected life. Limit that to even the next 20 years, and that’s still an awful lot of deprivation.
Yeah, I’m just not buying that anyone even vaguely similar to my demographic is being honest with the “no way I’d bang my mom or dad” thing.
None of those apply to me. And I’d choose the bare subsistence diet too. I’d only BARELY choose the disgusting meal over starving to death, and that may only be because I didn’t click the links.
I wouldn’t want to be in the same room with my father ever again if I thought he were willing to have sex with me. Again, the dead part makes that difficult in the first place, but still.
Some people have no problem with incest. That’s obvious if you read the paper. Others of us do have some pretty huge problems with it and it isn’t just trying to make a bunch of people on a message board happy to say no, I won’t ruin my family and my memories so that I can have sex. Everyone has their point, I hope, at which they’d say, “No, sex isn’t worth that.” Mine happens to be at incest with my dead dad.
(Only on the dope would people meet that statement with disbelief.)
Is this question intended for monogamous people only?
You lose. I’m 55.
Question, meanwhile, for the horrified & appalled: am I supposed to assume this would be horribly traumatic for my Mom? That would be an immediate dealbreaker. Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought the scenario was strictly about OUR OWN dismay or whatever. The question, after all, wasn’t “Would you RAPE your opposite-sex parent” or “Would you pressure your opposite-sex parent”. Aren’t we supposed to kind of suspend the assumption that the relevant parent would be totally icked out and assume for the purposes of this hypothetical that they’re amenable and it’s just about us and whether or not we’d consider it given the alternative?
The judgements being thrown around in this thread that people who voted #1 as a joke or because they’re mentally ill are pretty stupid. I could turn it around and say - you’d rather deny your spouse, the person you most love in the world and want to make happy - the chance to ever have sex with you or to share that intimacy because you couldn’t just grin and bear one night of discomfort?
It’s fine if you want to say you’d make that choice yourself (I think if actually faced with the decision, it would go from 90/10 against to 80/20 for, but do you really have to insist that anyone who would decide differently from you is crazy? FFS. It’s extremely icky, but it’s not like losing your vision or a limb or something. You’ll be just fine.
I posted a followup poll to see just how far the incest-repulsion goes. Please submit an answer, I’m really curious how far you guys will take this.
It’s a messageboard poll, not a binding contract. Calm down.
I’ve only ever had sex with one person, and that was only five times in total. Before and after that, nothing. As I am certain to be having no sex ever again, it’s not even a slightly challenging choice.
Goddamn it, NO! You may think so but is it so hard for you to think that it might be different for other people? Your food comparison is not remotely the same - it’s be more like “Eat a human once or eat bare subsistence food for your life”. It has to be equally disgusting.
Again - you’re a man. Think abut it. You will be inserting penis. Why don’t you switch it around and think about sex with your dad - he will be putting his dick into you. That’s what it’s like for us women - we have to think about our dads putting their dicks into us, and that’s just horrific. And then the emotional aspect of it - it’s real trauma.
No fucking way. I have a vibrator, it works well, I am fine with it. I’m not completely horrified by incest. I have no brothers but I have heard of brother-sister incest, and it doesn’t bother me. And I have had thoughts about cousins before. Intergenerational incest does bother me, though, a lot.
Could you elaborate on that? I’m curious. The reason to me that brother/sister incest seems less wrong is because of the obvious power issues involved - presumably a brother/sister that aren’t quite wired right for the whatever-his-name effect could have a fairly equal, consentual relationship, but the presumption is that a parent-child relationship would necesarily be abusive or indicative of some severe damage and issues.
But in this hypothetical, it’s happening essentially by magic. It’s not an indication that your parent brainwashed you into it. So the abuse factor that seperates those two types is a non-issue.
Actually, I presume that brother-sister incest doesn’t bother me exactly because I haven’t had a brother. I would guess it probably bothers people with siblings more.
But there is a much higher ick factor with your father - and we’ve gotten so far into the realm of subjectivity and emotions that I only dare to talk about myself - that your brother doesn’t have.
I’ve tried here but I just can’t come out with it in words. There is a deep-seated visceral reaction at the mere thought of my father in those terms - even my biological father, whom I’ve never met - that nothing else contains. Even thinking of my friend with her father doesn’t bother me to the extent that mine own does. Reading an incest story? Doesn’t bother me as long as it’s consentual. Me and my dad? Horrific.
So I think it’s probably partially cultural, partially upbringing, and maybe something deep inside of us that rebels at the very idea.
I don’t see a parallel there at all. There’s a whole emotional component to sex that doesn’t apply to food no matter how much of a gourmet you are. The incest=bad thing is so deeply ingrained in our society, plus what others have pointed out about it being Awkward every time you had to enounter your parent ever afterwards, that I don’t think that I and the others who had the knee-jerk “ewwwwww” response are overreacting. I’d feel sort of grossed out with myself for the rest of my life as well.
I’ll admit that I’m fat. Yes, it would be a wrench to give up my favorite foods, but I’d deal. Choke down a disgusting buffet or live on monkey chow? Pass the fried camel brains and the ketchup.
I’ll go out on a limb and admit that I basically have faced the actual situation. I was a very young kid when I found out my father was sexually abusing my older sister. I told my mom, she told him to stop, and of course, he didn’t stop. He hid it from my mom, but made little effort to hide it from me. So I was convinced that eventually, it was going to be my “turn”, and if I didn’t want it to happen, it was up to me to stop it. I decided that if he tried it, I would have to kill him, and failing that, I would kill myself.
He never did try anything with me (possibly in part because I told him exactly what I would do if he did), but nonetheless, it took me many long years to be able to get over that experience and have a relatively normal sex life. If I were forced to have sex with that bastard now? Well, I have a kid, so I can no longer kill myself, or my father (as going to prison is not an option). But yes, I can guarantee I would never be having sex again anyway, so I would gladly accept that.
As to the choices in your follow-up thread, the only ones I might forgo would be the ones that would disable me to the point that I couldn’t adequately care for my child. I don’t have the option of choosing my own comfort over my kid’s (and yes, I would consider becoming a quadriplegic rather than having sex with my father to be a “comfort”). But there’s abso-fucking-lutely no amount of money I would take. And violent rape? Hah! Where do I sign up?
Actually, for me it would be like “Kill and eat your most beloved parent/sibling/child, or eat bare subsistence food for your life”. It’s *that *horrifying.
Leaving everything else about this thread aside, I’m curious about this. I’m a woman, and I’m really not seeing a fundamental difference between “fucking” and “being fucked”. Would it be easier for you to strap one on and penetrate Dad?