# Girlfriend ruins Houdini myth
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girlfriend-ruins-houdini-myth/339075
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 9, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girlfriend-ruins-houdini-myth/339075 "2006-01-09T00:28:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girlfriend-ruins-houdini-myth/339075/1 "2006-01-09T00:28:02Z")
I always thought the [Houdini](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=houdini) was a funny concept, although I would never try it out of respect for the opposite sex :dubious:
However, my SO shot holes in the concept, arguing that no girl will just roll over with a back covered in semen. I have to admit, she has a point, although there is a counter argument that women willing to have anal sex with guys they hardly know might not be so concerned about the cleanliness of their sheets.
Still, leave it to my SO to take the fun out of an amusing sex act. Has anyone here pulled a houdini? Or has their partner ruin a sex myth?
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girlfriend-ruins-houdini-myth/339075/2 "2006-01-09T00:30:08Z")
After clicking the link, I thought to myself, “Maybe some ignorance _shouldn’t_ be fought.”
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girlfriend-ruins-houdini-myth/339075/3 "2006-01-09T00:31:59Z")
> [@bubastis](#):
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> Still, leave it to my SO to take the fun out of an amusing sex act.
Apparently, one man’s “fun” is another man’s disgust.
To each his own.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girlfriend-ruins-houdini-myth/339075/4 "2006-01-09T00:42:18Z")
> [@](#):
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> Still, leave it to my SO to take the fun out of an amusing sex act.
Can you explain what is amusing (or fun) about that?
Just curious.
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### Author:  [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girlfriend-ruins-houdini-myth/339075/5 "2006-01-09T00:49:30Z")
> [@tomndebb](#):
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> Can you explain what is amusing (or fun) about that?
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> Just curious.
Eh, nothing really… I’m going to quietly back away here… feel free to close this thread…
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### Author:  [@Shai\_tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shai_tan)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girlfriend-ruins-houdini-myth/339075/6 "2006-01-09T01:26:52Z")
Why does she have to be having anal sex with strangers? I postulate that the vast majority of people having sex in the “doggie style” position are having your garden variety vaginal sex. Why not spice it up with a little “Houdini” action? If it was anal sex, wouldn’t he just opt for the “dirty sanchez”?
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### Author:  [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girlfriend-ruins-houdini-myth/339075/7 "2006-01-09T01:27:15Z")
When this same subject was brought up in college, one of my female compatriots said, “That wouldn’t work. There’s a total difference between someone spitting on you and coming on you.” Which led to lots of jokes (“Really? Had a lot of experience with that, huh?”) and a good time was had by all.
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girlfriend-ruins-houdini-myth/339075/8 "2006-01-09T01:42:17Z")
> [@bubastis](#):
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> Eh, nothing really… I’m going to quietly back away here… feel free to close this thread…
Yeah, that’s it. Just roll over on your back a sec.
Look at it this way: at least you put it in the right forum. So you’re landing something in the right place.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girlfriend-ruins-houdini-myth/339075/9 "2006-01-09T01:59:50Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#):
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> After clicking the link, I thought to myself, “Maybe some ignorance _shouldn’t_ be fought.”
Og be my witness, I had _NEVER_ heard of this before.
And having read of it now, this is the most **STUPID** sex move I’ve ever heard of.
And why call it a Houdini??? WTH??? I’d expect that name to be given to something that involved some sort of difficult extrication or supernatural communication – at the very least, some props. Spit? Really…
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girlfriend-ruins-houdini-myth/339075/10 "2006-01-09T02:06:29Z")
While “fighting ignorance” is indeed a oft-stated goal of this community, there’s a limit to the social desires one should share with the other members. This thread is closed at the OP’s request (probably would have been closed, anyway), but let’s refrain from posting more like it.