# How long have you gone without having sex? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 3, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821 "2001-08-03T18:44:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/1 "2001-08-03T18:44:04Z")
I’m working on seven years now. Next April, the statute of limitations will have expended itself, and I will officially be a virgin again. (Then they’ll let me back into church…) How long have you gone? Voluntarily, or involuntarily. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/2 "2001-08-03T18:49:38Z")
Keep in mind, _ALL_ of my hiatuses were involuntary. My longest was over two years. Not a record I’m looking to break. ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/3 "2001-08-03T19:05:54Z")
Not counting my sixteen years of virginity, It would have to be about ten months, seven days, three hours, 47 minutes and 16, 17, 18… ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/4 "2001-08-03T19:16:39Z")
Ermmm…about six months, before I started dating my wife. ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/5 "2001-08-03T19:17:31Z")
Well, it’s been since Jan. 7th 2000 for me. But I’m still stupidly hopeful. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/6 "2001-08-03T20:17:15Z")
7 years this month. Voluntarily. It will end when I get married. ---
**Author:** ![Nen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Nen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nen)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/7 "2001-08-03T20:21:29Z")
I’m just going to sit back and watch this thread for awhile. Look at all the easy prey… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tyklfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tyklfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tyklfe)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/8 "2001-08-03T21:09:44Z")
Most recently? About 36 hours… I think I might kill myself 😉 ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/9 "2001-08-03T21:51:47Z")
Four and a half years before my to-be wife pre-consumated our marriage and four and a half years after we divorced. I think of myself as extraordinarily picky; unfortunately, I haven’t always been picky enough, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/10 "2001-08-03T21:56:12Z")
_ **toooo** _ long ---
**Author:** ![Mole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mole)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/11 "2001-08-03T22:07:18Z")
2 years, 7 months (and counting) ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/12 "2001-08-03T22:07:54Z")
25 years. Really. ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/13 "2001-08-03T22:10:11Z")
:::raises eyebrows::: So, sewalk, how YOU doin? ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/14 "2001-08-03T23:07:38Z")
24 years - my wife’s the one and only ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/15 "2001-08-03T23:26:48Z")
6 years and that’s all I got to say about that. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/16 "2001-08-04T01:13:21Z")
Will be two years coming up later this month. And you’d have to get into some of that pesky ol’ Clintonian Semantics[sup]TM[/sup] to determine whether there was anything to speak of before that date. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/17 "2001-08-04T02:09:24Z")
Maybe around 8 months? I never really counted it … ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/18 "2001-08-04T02:14:54Z")
I never really counted, either, **Kayeby.** But I eventually came to a point when I thought about it, and realized how looooong it had been. **Whiterabbit** and **vanilla,** I am in awe. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/19 "2001-08-04T02:15:47Z")
4 years on Aug 25th sigh ---
**Author:** ![beergeek279](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@beergeek279](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beergeek279)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/20 "2001-08-04T03:10:01Z")
November, 1999…Niagara Falls, Ont (was a beautiful night all in all…beautiful place to go with the one you love!) Who knows when the next time will be? Hey…are there any single Pittsburgh Dopers out there? 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821.md?page=2)