# Having sex with a one legged woman..... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 27, 2010, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194 "2010-09-27T07:25:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Captain\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@Captain\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/1 "2010-09-27T07:25:07Z")
I was wondering how does one have comfortable sex when one of the partners only has one leg. I was thinking about Paul McCartney and his peg legged second wife, and wondered how that worked. Wouldn’t the man be off balance in the missionary position? The legs of the woman keep the man in balance. I guess if the woman has one leg, the man can do it somewhat sideways because there isn’t a limb that is in the way. The “stump” would be a turnoff, not that I would turn away a beautiful woman. But the knowing after a date that she has one leg would be something to overcome. Maybe, maybe not. Could a one legged woman do it doggy style? Or would she tip over? If she is in top, then she would have to work her one remaining leg twice as hard making that position more painful than pleasurable. The legs seem to be a very important part of the sex act, outside the sexual organs themselves. How do one legged people counteract this? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/2 "2010-09-27T08:04:14Z")
You’re assuming, of course, that a respectable one-legged woman would have sex with you at all. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/3 "2010-09-27T08:09:16Z")
I suppose she could leave her prosthesis on; or have a special one made. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/4 "2010-09-27T08:54:26Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > I suppose she could leave her prosthesis on; or have a special one made. Ooh yeah, you’d know you were in for a good night when you came home from work and she had lacy underwear and her sex legs on. ---
**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreasyJack)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/5 "2010-09-27T09:17:54Z")
It seems like you used to hear a lot about amputee porn in the context of “weird stuff you can find on this newfangled internet thing.” Haven’t heard much about it lately, but perhaps the answer to your questions is still a (safe-search disabled) search away! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/6 "2010-09-27T10:21:18Z")
\*\*Captain Midnight \*\* --why would you be thinking about that one-legged pirate & the poor, deluded old man she took to the cleaners? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/7 "2010-09-27T11:10:51Z")
Back in the 70s or 80s there used to be letters to Penthouse about having sex with one-legged women. Apparently it was a turn-on to a lot of guys (probably because they were imagining greater access). There was undoubtedly a high fantasy content to submissions to the Penthouse letters section, but some of these were probably for real. If memory serves, there used to be ads in the back of the magazine for contact lists or videos or something with one-legged women, which showed up after the letters started appearing. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/8 "2010-09-27T11:24:35Z")
I think you can have sex in the missionary position without using the woman’s legs to keep you in place. And now that you’ve brought up the subject (which I’d never have thought about independently) it would actually be a boon for my favorite position, which is both of us on our side, facing eachother (less physically draining than staying in the pushups position), and her knees up, top leg wrapped around my lower back and me lying over her lower leg. If there were no lower leg, we’d both probably be even more comfortable. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/9 "2010-09-27T13:26:30Z")
[Acrotomophilia](http://www.amputee-online.com/amputee/acrotomophile.html) (SFW) For the ‘wannabes’: [Apotemnophilia](http://www.amputee-online.com/amputee/wannabee.html) (SFW) ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/10 "2010-09-27T13:36:51Z")
[Boxing Helena](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106471/) ~ truly disturbing… ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/11 "2010-09-27T13:39:56Z")
> [@Captain\_Midnight](#): > > The “stump” would be a turnoff, not that I would turn away a beautiful woman. One legged beauties shall sleep better with that knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/12 "2010-09-27T13:50:26Z")
First of all, “one legged woman” might actually be “one and half legged woman” or some variant, since amputations can occur below the knee, above the knee, or at the hip, all of which yields different results. If the amputation was below the knee it might not be that much different than sex with a woman with two full legs and kneeling positions shouldn’t be a problem. If the leg is missing all the way up to the hip, that’s a little different. Maybe strategic use of pillows or couch cushions would come into play to help support one or both partners in a comfortable position. I don’t know, I’ve never had sex with a one legged person of either gender. However, positions where the remaining leg has to do extra work, such as woman on top, might not be as much of a problem as you think as her remaining leg might well be stronger than average in compensation for lacking the other one. She might also have better than average upper body strength if she spends significant time using crutches, so she might have little trouble supporting herself with one leg and the opposite side arm. One legged women do have sex, so it’s possible. I just never asked any of them for details. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/13 "2010-09-27T14:53:39Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > > [@Koxinga](#): > > > > I suppose she could leave her prosthesis on; or have a special one made. > > Ooh yeah, you’d know you were in for a good night when you came home from work and she had lacy underwear and her sex legs on. A-good-friend-of-mine’s wife had a hip replacement in her 30s. I used to joke with them that when they’re were feeling ‘in the mood’ they’d have to adjust a dial and put her hip in ‘Sex’ mode. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/14 "2010-09-27T15:10:15Z")
There was an absolutely stunning woman in Portland who had no arms. She was so friggin good looking that you could look at her for 20 minutes without noticing anything other than how beautiful she was. Since I look like Seth Rogan on a bad day, I was always afraid to to talk to her. “So you think just because I have no arms it somehow makes me ‘in your league’”. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/15 "2010-09-27T17:11:45Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Back in the 70s or 80s there used to be letters to Penthouse about having sex with one-legged women. Apparently it was a turn-on to a lot of guys (probably because they were imagining greater access). There was undoubtedly a high fantasy content to submissions to the Penthouse letters section, but some of these were probably for real. If memory serves, there used to be ads in the back of the magazine for contact lists or videos or something with one-legged women, which showed up after the letters started appearing. Almost all the letters in Penthouse Letters and its many, many imitators were written by freelancers. That’s why they were all so grammatical. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/16 "2010-09-27T18:04:11Z")
Long Jeanne Silver never found her stump a hindrance to sex. Quite the contrary, she did rather unusual things with it. 😉 > **[Long Jeanne Silver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Jeanne_Silver)** > > Long Jeanne Silver is an American former pornographic actress, known for using the stump of her amputated leg to penetrate her sexual partner in her movies during the 1970s and 1980s. > Silver was born in Tempe, Arizona. She was born with a missing fibula in one leg which required the bottom half of it to be amputated. She ran away from home at age 16 in 1976 to go to New York City, where she would soon begin to pose for adult magazines and perform in porn films. > Prior to pornography, she also ha... ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/17 "2010-09-28T04:46:48Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > > [@Koxinga](#): > > > > I suppose she could leave her prosthesis on; or have a special one made. > > Ooh yeah, you’d know you were in for a good night when you came home from work and she had lacy underwear and her sex legs on. And on a _really_ good night – the tentacles. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/18 "2010-09-28T06:24:50Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > > [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > > > Ooh yeah, you’d know you were in for a good night when you came home from work and she had lacy underwear and her sex legs on. > > And on a _really_ good night – the tentacles. [WHOAH! That’s not right . . .](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drGlg0fWunQ) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/19 "2010-09-28T06:38:42Z")
I’ve read the OP three times. And thrice I have collapsed in laughter. Comedy gold. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194/20 "2010-09-28T07:24:01Z")
I thought your post was a status update… very disappointed that it’s a question [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-sex-with-a-one-legged-woman/555194.md?page=2)