# For ten-million $$ woud you be willing to give up ALL sex? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 3, 2005, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594 "2005-10-03T16:15:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Silence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Silence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Silence)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/21 "2005-10-03T19:08:47Z")
Fuck yeah ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/22 "2005-10-03T19:13:26Z")
Hell, I hug my \*SO \* in non-filthy ways. Or are you seriously telling me that every time you hug your partner it leads to hot dirty sex? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/23 "2005-10-03T19:27:06Z")
I already have. Where’s my money? ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/24 "2005-10-03T19:42:59Z")
To quote the movie Diggstown: “Then what would you need the [ten million dollars] for?” ---
**Author:** ![GrahamWellington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/54ee81/32.png) [@GrahamWellington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrahamWellington)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/25 "2005-10-03T20:05:34Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Hell, I hug my \*SO \* in non-filthy ways. Or are you seriously telling me that every time you hug your partner it leads to hot dirty sex? No. No, I’m not. It’s just that if you’re going to keep your end of the bargain, then it’s important to make sure that no sexual gratification can occur; not that it necessarily would. Perhaps hugs would be allowed as long as both the hugger and huggie are wearing long, heavy winter coats. Yes; I think that would be acceptable. (Ten-million $$$ is way more worthwhile than even the best sex!) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/26 "2005-10-03T20:07:36Z")
> [@GrahamWellington](#): > > No. No, I’m not. > > It’s just that if you’re going to keep your end of the bargain, then it’s important to make sure that no sexual gratification can occur; not that it necessarily would. > > Perhaps hugs would be allowed as long as both the hugger and huggie are wearing long, heavy winter coats. > > Yes; I think that would be acceptable. (Ten-million $$$ is way more worthwhile than even the best sex!) Forget it. Now you’re not just saying sex, but you’ve changed it to affection, too. I’m not giving up affection, \*that \* is more important than sex or money to me. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/27 "2005-10-03T20:08:03Z")
Absolutely. I’m asexual anyway, and money is nice. ---
**Author:** ![Pixisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Pixisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixisis)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/28 "2005-10-03T20:08:32Z")
don’t even have to think about it. no way. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/29 "2005-10-03T20:16:23Z")
I think that a better question is _could_ I have gone without sex at 24, not _would_. In any case, the answer would have been no. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/30 "2005-10-03T20:51:11Z")
No, although I’m not a sex fiend, by any stretch of the imagination. But I wouldn’t give up _coffee_ for ten million, mostly because if someone were to make such a grandiose, ridiculous, pointless offer, my instinctive reaction would be to slap their stupid face. ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/31 "2005-10-03T20:54:35Z")
If it’s a one time deal, as in, today or never, then no. I can manage OK without that much money. I’ll be financially stable someday, and that’ll be enough to content me. The problems that abstinence would wreak upon my marriage would, however, be monumental. And I really, really, want to have a child the “old fashioned” way, providing that my husband and I are both able. (If not, we’d be adopting anyway, none of this artificial non-sexual conception stuff.) ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/32 "2005-10-03T21:12:06Z")
So…I get the $10 million and I do what I do with the money, say I turn it into $20 million. Hell freezes over and I get lucky. Do I only have to give back the original $10 and keep what it earned for me? To answer the OP, whether or not I’d accept really depends on the day. Today I’d want to see the cash. ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/33 "2005-10-03T21:55:51Z")
Absolutely. Sure, sex is great and all, but it’s ten million damn dollars! I’m sure that with that kind of money I could find a drug that would simulate orgasm without involving touch (and that would be allowed under the parameter of the OP). I’d miss being in a relationship, but I could hire some kind of platonic life partner and it would be almost as good. Ten million! ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/34 "2005-10-03T22:00:13Z")
Lemme put it this way. All my getting rich fantasies involve all the creative ways I could court beautiful women and all the crazy debauched parties I’d throw. Methinks this would be self-defeating. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/35 "2005-10-03T22:24:44Z")
No, no, and no. Money is nice. Sex is better. ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/36 "2005-10-03T22:32:16Z")
> [@GrahamWellington](#): > > Ten-million $$$ is way more worthwhile than even the best sex! :dubious: If you’ve really _had_ both… and you’re willing to give up the latter for a measly ten mil… Well, there must be some really amazing thing you can do with money that I’m completely unaware of. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/37 "2005-10-03T22:54:10Z")
Hell no, not even worth a second thought. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/38 "2005-10-03T23:09:52Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > But I wouldn’t give up _coffee_ for ten million, mostly because if someone were to make such a grandiose, ridiculous, pointless offer, my instinctive reaction would be to slap their stupid face. 😃 Bingo! I just think I’d have to be some kind of total loser to value money more than I value sex. (This obviously doesn’t apply to the asexual–it only applies to myself personally). Hell, there’s very few pleasures I’d give up for any amount of money. That’s just not how my head works. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/39 "2005-10-03T23:27:38Z")
What’s the point of owning $10 millions if you can’t use them to get laid??? Nope, I don’t sign up. I’m not sure what I could do with $ 10 millions, anyway, but certainly nothing that would be worth giving up sex. Barring a situation where I’m starving/ homeless, I can’t see what I could buy which would be more valuable than having a sex life. A castle? A painting? A yacht? Definitely not. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594/40 "2005-10-03T23:34:03Z")
I mean if I was just giving up sex with other people I’d probably be fine. Lets be honest here, I haven’t had it yet, how could I possibly miss it. But no touching? You’ve got to be out of your mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-ten-million-woud-you-be-willing-to-give-up-all-sex/324594.md?page=3)