On the other hand, one could argue that the more attractive someone is, the more likely they are to be comfortable with their own body and thus more able to enjoy sex. Also, they are more likely to have a wider sexual experience and thus likely to less squinked out by the circumstances.
Also, even if we are assuming that the person doing the selecting is unattractive, and would stand no chance with the most attractive of the three in normal circumstances of trying to get a date or form a relationship, it by no means follows that the most attractive of the three would be the most reluctant to have sex in these very different circumstances.
Furthermore, even just considering the selector’s interests, it is not actually particularly in their interest to choose the most attractive. Attractiveness is an issue in a normal social setting when you are selecting who to form a relationship with. When there is nothing on the table but sex, what matters is not what they look like, but how good they are at sex. (As a friend of mine, who was rather a horndog, used to say, “You don’t look at the mantelpiece when you are poking the fire.”) But, again, we are given no information whatsoever to enable us to judge this.
But all these speculations are nonsense. The fact is that there are so many unknown variables that there is no possible way of guessing which of the three will be the least repulsed (or, as is also far from impossible, the most turned on) by the circumstances. (Or which one will be the most fun “in bed”.) Your assumptions about it are most certainly quite baseless.
Good point! Yet one more thing the OP didn’t specify is what form of sex is being demanded. Given the known propensities of aliens, it seems likely to be anal.
Uh… I already said it’s my goal to make this whole thing as minimally bad as possible. Dooming the entire planet is out; that’s pretty bad even in my book. So I’m having sex with someone. Given three anonymous women, about whom I know nothing (and can know nothing) about them but their questionable willingness and their looks… what other choice would I make?
It seems totally ludicrous to make any judgments about what hypothetical people would think about sex or about me based on their appearance alone. If you’re actually suggesting otherwise… :dubious:
True yet has fuckall to do with how willing a complete stranger is to have sex with you to save the world.
Since this is basically about being forced to have sex, do you think there are many women who, when faced with rape, think “well, at least he’s cute”? Cause I don’t. If the person is truly an unwilling participant, how attractive the other person is compared to them isn’t going to really effect their feelings much.
I’m just as much under coercion as the women, and for all I know, I’m the woman’s pick as much as she is mine. So I go for the hot one. Women have peculiar tastes sometimes!
I don’t disagree with this. Which is why I conclude that drawing a random name from a hat would be the most moral choice. But that doesn’t mean the attractive one should be the default choice.
This doesn’t match my experience at all. Someone who is beautiful has probably gone through life exposed to a heck of a lot of ogling and drooling from men, and been the center of a lot of attention in general. This is just as likely to make a person extremely self-conscious and insecure, and very uncomfortable with their own body and their sexuality.
Not that there’s a one-to-one relationship or anything, and it obviously depends on what kind of personality you start out with, but I’ve certainly seen as many sexual hang-ups in the gorgeous as in the ugly. if not more.
I’ve had partners from all over the attractiveness scale, and I can certainly say that simple physical attractiveness correlates very poorly indeed with the enjoyableness of the experience.
Under the stress and pressure of “performing” to save the world, choosing the most attractive partner (and improving the odds of completing the act to the satisfaction of the aliens) is the most morally sound choice.
With that kind of pressure, there’s no way I’m getting it up anyway. Could we specify what counts as “sex” to the sadistic alien? Would shoving my limp, sorry, very much non-erect member into some orifice, while apologizing profusely and most likely crying like a baby, be OK? 'Cause that’s about the best I’d be able to do.
My experience is almost the direct opposite. The most critical remarks about other people’s looks almost always come from utter trolls.
I don’t agree. I’d say that about half of the couples I know in real life have a distinct imbalance in attractiveness. In a couple of cases, the difference is almost Billy Joel-ian in scope.
