# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/21 "2001-08-04T03:20:27Z")
It is impertinent for you to ask. It is stupid of me to answer. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/22 "2001-08-04T03:36:16Z")
Longer than most of you who have answered so far. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/23 "2001-08-04T03:59:11Z")
Is it becoming obvious that a fair number of our members ain’t getting any? ---
**Author:** ![Crispy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Crispy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crispy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/24 "2001-08-04T04:43:38Z")
Maybe three months. Should I feel ashamed that that’s the longest I can wait? Unfortunately, it looks like I could be on the verge of a _very_ long wait. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/25 "2001-08-04T04:57:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Is it becoming obvious that a fair number of our members ain’t getting any? Why do you think they’re here? [sub]d & r[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/26 "2001-08-04T05:00:42Z")
Two Army vets, Bill and Dave, are sitting around one night. Bill says, ‘Dave, how long’s it been since you had sex.?’ Dave thinks for a minute and says ‘1945.’ Bill says, ‘Wow. That’s an awfully long time.’ Dave looks at his watch and says, ‘Not really, it’s only 2120 now.’ ---
**Author:** ![Cyndar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cyndar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyndar)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/27 "2001-08-04T05:57:59Z")
It’s so sporadic…who can remember…the last time for me was about 10 months ago…but I’m sure I have gone for longer. Much to my dismay. ---
**Author:** ![straykat23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@straykat23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straykat23)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/28 "2001-08-04T06:03:38Z")
Uh…do you mean solo or with a real person of the opposite/same sex? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/29 "2001-08-04T06:15:04Z")
Uh, my longest dry spell was five years. On the night in which it was broken the gal and I were totally naked and I was just about to go for the glory when she started having second thoughts :eek:! Fortunately, she came to her senses in time! 😃 My current one’s lasted slightly over a year. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/30 "2001-08-04T16:00:13Z")
I’ve never really kept track but I imagine the longest has been 3 or 4 months. ---
**Author:** ![Tixenfleaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@Tixenfleaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tixenfleaz)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/31 "2001-08-04T16:47:34Z")
Two years and several months in my mid twenties. I had a pretty good track record up to that point, so it really scared the hell out of me. To my meager credit, I missed the companionship almost as much as the sex. Fortunately, one of my lady friends felt sorry for me, and I learned that I have no qualms about receiving “pity sex”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/32 "2001-08-04T16:57:53Z")
Northern piper: Funny! Reminds m eof Jay Leno’s joke last October that he had sex that lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes. Of course, that was the day they turned the clocks back… ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/33 "2001-08-04T17:00:16Z")
Okay. My mistake. That would obviously be April, when they turn the clocks forward… ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/34 "2001-08-04T21:47:50Z")
Do you guys have three heads, crippling lack of confidence, or what? Sex is ridiculously easy to get. All you need to do is meet somebody cute and friendly, grab some rubbers and lube, find a convenient space, and get horizontal or vertical, or in some special cases, diagonal, and start aardvarkin’. It’s been 7 hours since the last time I had sex with my boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/35 "2001-08-04T22:09:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crispy \* > \*\*Maybe three months. Should I feel ashamed that that’s the longest I can wait? > Unfortunately, it looks like I could be on the verge of a _very_ long wait. \*\* Why, no. Rather, my ex-boyfriend should be ashamed he could wait longer than that. Yes, actually, my longest dry spell coinsides with a time when I supposedly had a boyfriend. About a year and it would have been longer had I left it up to him. But that’s over and there’s this guy and I hope everyone will wish me luck this week. And I wish you better luck, Cripsy. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/36 "2001-08-04T22:49:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by goboy \* > \*\*Do you guys have three heads, crippling lack of confidence, or what? Sex is ridiculously easy to get. \*\* You’re right, _sex_ is easy to get. But just maybe people are after more than just sex. After all, I can get the same thing from my hand or my vibrator that I get from of a one night stand, without the pregnancy risk. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/37 "2001-08-04T23:03:07Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Lsura \* \*\* > [@](#): > > After all, I can get the same thing from my hand or my vibrator that I get from of a one night stand, \*\* Really!? You’re obviously much better at masturbating or have had much worse luck with cheap sex than I’ve had. I’d say there’s no comparsion. ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/38 "2001-08-05T02:02:55Z")
Next month will be three years. As far as I’m concerned, my virginity will have grown back at that point…and then it will be permanent. (There’s no way in hell I’m gonna explain to some woman that I’m a 37-year-old virgin.) ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/39 "2001-08-05T02:10:56Z")
I went 114 days once, when I was still in submarines. Had a quickie in the parking lot just before setting the manuevering watch on the way out, another just after liberty call on the way back. Longest submerged trip I ever took, and my longest ‘drought’ ever. My girlfriend at the time actually _liked_ “boat smell”, if you can believe that. She said that smell meant that I was home, and I always came off a run rarin’ to go, with far more hormones than sense. We sometimes spent three days in bed after a particularly long run. ---
**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 5, 2001, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/40 "2001-08-05T02:20:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by goboy \* > \*\*Do you guys have three heads, crippling lack of confidence, or what?..It’s been 7 hours since the last time I had sex with my boyfriend. \*\* I’m impressed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821.md?page=3)