# From just the audio on TV, I can't tell if the woman is having sex, having a baby or being murdered **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-just-the-audio-on-tv-i-cant-tell-if-the-woman-is-having-sex-having-a-baby-or-being-murdered/810203 "2018-03-07T21:06:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nate/32/13085_2.png) [@nate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nate)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-just-the-audio-on-tv-i-cant-tell-if-the-woman-is-having-sex-having-a-baby-or-being-murdered/810203/1 "2018-03-07T21:06:45Z")
The moaning all sounds the same to me. I don’t know if that says something about me or about women. Or maybe that’s what is taught in acting school. Anyone else noticed this before? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-just-the-audio-on-tv-i-cant-tell-if-the-woman-is-having-sex-having-a-baby-or-being-murdered/810203/2 "2018-03-07T21:22:37Z")
I don’t what shows you’ve been listening to, but it reminds me of a _Simpsons_ bit where an audience member describes a jazz violinist’s performance as “It sounds like she’s hitting a baby with a cat.” ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-just-the-audio-on-tv-i-cant-tell-if-the-woman-is-having-sex-having-a-baby-or-being-murdered/810203/3 "2018-03-07T21:27:00Z")
well I’m told that its possible to have an orgasam while giving birth … espically if the soon to be baby is wiggling on the way out… The medical show I seen it on the doc discussing it said " he though the woman was having problems while the baby was making its way out but after checking it appeared she was reacting to her lady parts getting "over stimulated " So I guess for some girls it going out feels as good as it going in " ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-just-the-audio-on-tv-i-cant-tell-if-the-woman-is-having-sex-having-a-baby-or-being-murdered/810203/4 "2018-03-07T21:29:15Z")
Mrs. L.A. liked watching curling during the Olympics… until she got tired of the sounds. She said it sounded like they were having sex. ‘Hard! _Hard!_’ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-just-the-audio-on-tv-i-cant-tell-if-the-woman-is-having-sex-having-a-baby-or-being-murdered/810203/5 "2018-03-07T21:59:42Z")
Another possibility is that there’s a women’s singles tennis match going. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-just-the-audio-on-tv-i-cant-tell-if-the-woman-is-having-sex-having-a-baby-or-being-murdered/810203/6 "2018-03-07T22:14:20Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Another possibility is that there’s a women’s singles tennis match going. :eek: Does somebody besides [Monica Seles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoNoKIFQODs) do that? ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-just-the-audio-on-tv-i-cant-tell-if-the-woman-is-having-sex-having-a-baby-or-being-murdered/810203/7 "2018-03-07T22:20:56Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Does somebody besides [Monica Seles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoNoKIFQODs) do that? OTOH, there was [this tennis match,](https://youtu.be/J8MK8uQ4p-8?t=99) in which somebody in a nearby apartment actually was getting it on during the match… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-just-the-audio-on-tv-i-cant-tell-if-the-woman-is-having-sex-having-a-baby-or-being-murdered/810203/8 "2018-03-07T23:18:03Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I don’t what shows you’ve been listening to, but it reminds me of a _Simpsons_ bit where an audience member describes a jazz violinist’s performance as “It sounds like she’s hitting a baby with a cat.” You have to listen to the notes she’s _not_ playing. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-just-the-audio-on-tv-i-cant-tell-if-the-woman-is-having-sex-having-a-baby-or-being-murdered/810203/9 "2018-03-07T23:26:08Z")
> [@](#): > > From just the audio on TV, I can’t tell if the woman is having sex, having a baby or being murdered Then I looked at the tv, watched for a minute, and I STILL couldn’t tell! ---
**Author:** ![Egnu\_Cledge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@Egnu\_Cledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Egnu_Cledge)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-just-the-audio-on-tv-i-cant-tell-if-the-woman-is-having-sex-having-a-baby-or-being-murdered/810203/10 "2018-03-08T03:22:53Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > You have to listen to the notes she’s _not_ playing. Pfft. I can do _that_ at home. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-just-the-audio-on-tv-i-cant-tell-if-the-woman-is-having-sex-having-a-baby-or-being-murdered/810203/11 "2018-03-08T08:45:35Z")
What if she’s having a baby, having sex, _and_ being murdered all at the same time? I think a scene from _A Serbian Film_ was exactly that. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-just-the-audio-on-tv-i-cant-tell-if-the-woman-is-having-sex-having-a-baby-or-being-murdered/810203/12 "2018-03-08T18:08:54Z")
Once at work the whole hallway was suddenly filled with the sounds of a woman having an orgasm. The sound repeated several times, and then stopped. Then it started again about 25 minutes later. Quite a few people were milling about horrified, trying to locate the sound. The VP heard it and he and an HR rep began office checks to see who was watching porn on company time. It was a whole process because they had to get security to bring keys to unlock the doors, etc. After a couple hours of this off and on disturbance, and with no result from the office checks, the sound finally stopped. We all figured it must have been coming from the company upstairs. About two days later I was outside chatting with the smoking crew when one lady’s phone went off. Her ringtone was set to the sound of a wolf howling. When she went to meetings she generally left her phone in a drawer, and her office door shut. The combined muffling created the sound we all had heard. The moment that the phone went off and I figured it out I let out the loudest laugh-snort of my lifetime, and proceeded to laugh so hard and long that I lost the ability to stand. My collapse of course brought the whole after-lunch smoking crowd to a circle around me to find out what was “wrong.” When I finally caught enough breath to let others in on my insight, they all doubled over helplessly as well. Meanwhile, the phone’s owner, having no idea why her ringtone should evoke such laughter, launched into an impassioned defense of her commitment to the environment and the re-settlement of wolves in particular. She just assumed we were a bunch of GOP conservatives laughing at the “bunny-hugger.” The HR rep was the stuckee to explain to her, and insist she change her ringtone. Dear Og on high that was hilarious!