# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/61 "2001-08-06T05:46:35Z")
A little over 2 years, since I first became involved with the future Mrs. Six. Will end on our wedding day. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/62 "2001-08-06T06:17:54Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Crispy \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Ugh! A boyfriend that **doesn’t** want to have sex?! I can’t imagine! > > I’m almost ashamed because I’ll go for just about anyone when it’s been long enough. > > Two of my ex-boyfriends decided that I didn’t deserve to go through a dry spell. Maybe you wishing me luck helped out a bit. Ahhh. Sex with two different people two nights in a row. It feels so naughty. 😉 \*\* Yeah, I was pretty surprised too. My theory now is he orginally used sex to get what he really wanted- domesticity. Well, you know how men are. :rolleyes: (Actually we have a pretty good relationship now, now that we’ve given up the pretence that it’s a romantic one.) But anyway, glad I could help. Two! My wishing is more powerful than I thought. 'Kay, now you wish me luck. Specifically for Tuesday, the only day me and this guy both have off. What the hell, it worked for you. Wish me a guy for Wednesday too! ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/63 "2001-08-06T06:22:12Z")
…for Wednesday as well. I hate to rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/64 "2001-08-06T18:07:25Z")
this year? 5 weeks. but then i’m 19, at university, and i have no will power and a high sex drive. ---
**Author:** ![MAXIMUMSTRENT1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@MAXIMUMSTRENT1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MAXIMUMSTRENT1)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/65 "2001-08-06T18:57:40Z")
Irishgirl, … marry me! I like girls with high sex drives. Some of mine just about had to be pull started like a lawnmower engine. This ‘chaste’ thing because of STDs gets real annoying when a guy has to fight his way through a guilt complex to get to home base and sometimes on the way from third, he starts having second thoughts because _she_ raised doubts in his mind. I have to carry around my last test certificate. That’s another reason for me taking a sabbatical from sex. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Hole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Black\_Hole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Hole)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/66 "2001-08-06T21:13:32Z")
Let’s see… it’s 5:11 PM est… about 8 hours and 30 minutes, currently… I’ll take care of that when I get home 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/67 "2001-08-07T01:30:37Z")
My longest dry spell was just under three years, from fall of 1998 to June of this year. For a good part of that time, I was deliberately celibate. The rest of the time, I just couldn’t get laid. Y’know, the age old story. ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Rubin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billy_rubin/32/3622_2.png) [@Billy\_Rubin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Rubin)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/68 "2001-08-07T01:39:58Z")
Unless, of course, you mean with a partner. b. ---
**Author:** ![Rossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@Rossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rossarian)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/69 "2001-08-07T02:08:47Z")
It’s bad enough that this thread reminds me that it has been 22 years, 5 months and 21 days, but then there’s like six topics on just how easy it is to get sex. I must have been sick they day they taught the class on how to get the opposite sex to jump in bed with you. ☹ But the a number of posters in the “sexy professions” thread listed military, so maybe there’s hope now. 🙂 Look girls! I wear camoflauge to work! Hop in bed with me! ---
**Author:** ![JadedNaive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@JadedNaive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JadedNaive)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/70 "2001-08-07T06:02:36Z")
It’s been ten months and. . . twenty days, if my math is correct. And if things go as planned, it’ll last until I get married, which will probably be at least five years, probably more like eight. Of course, that’s assuming that I’ll ever get married. Considering I’ve never yet been in a serious relationship, (actually, my only boyfriend was almost four years ago, when I was 15, and we were together for less than a month) that doesn’t seem too likely. But, you can always dream. ---
**Author:** ![DreamSpinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@DreamSpinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreamSpinner)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/71 "2001-08-07T06:33:00Z")
Four months. By choice. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/72 "2001-08-07T06:56:48Z")
N…o…t…v…e…r…y…l…o.n.g Please excuse the shaky posting. Really, once I started, my longest break would be about 4 months I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821/73 "2001-08-07T07:09:44Z")
Not counting 22 years of virginity, 2 and a half years. After I lost my virginity (one night stand situation) I got laid again only a few months after, and I thought that now that I had started having sex it would be fairly regular now…how wrong I was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-gone-without-having-sex/74821.md?page=3)