You’re going on a cross-country road trip from Seattle to Miami, and you MUST choose one of these two travel companions:
A) an Extremely Unattractive Nudist of the opposite sex.
b) an Extremely Unattractive Nudist of the same sex as you.
Aside from the extreme physical unattractiveness (however you would define that) and nudity they’re perfectly lovely people, personality-wise. For meals and other stops they will don a robe, but while in the car they’re butt nekkid. It’s their car, their rules, so no ordering them to wear clothes, and it’s a 2-seat SmartCar, so there’s no stashing them in the back; they’re going to be 6 inches away from you the entire time.
Assume both of these people are strangers to you. You must both make it to Miami unharmed (no beating them up or leaving them on the side of the road). You are not necessarily the driver.
Nevermind why you must make this trip or why you must take one of these two people, that’s not important. What’s most important is who you choose and why. The point of the question is who would you rather have to put up with/deal with for an extended period of time in a small space. There is no cop-out vote here; you have to pick one of the two.
I guess I’d rather make a long road trip chatting to a girl, regardless of whether I’m attracted to her or not. The nudity issue would be irrelevant in this case.
Mostly I’d choose a guy, but I think I’d be uncomfortable with a nude guy who blatantly insists on being nude the whole time, whether he is attractive or not, so this time I pick a girl.
Same sex. As much as I’d rather not have to look at another dude’s garbage, I’ve seen plenty of ugly naked dudes in locker rooms over the years and I’d be much more put off by a naked very unattractive woman.
I have a 2 seater Smart Car. seriously you do not feel crammed in. You feel exactly as if you were in a regular car until you get out. It’s bigger on the inside! (Mine is blue too!)
but you didn’t ask about the Smart Car. I picked same sex. I’m a girl. I figure an extremely unattractive person of either sex is going to be gross, and guys just have a greater capacity to be gross than girls. In general.
I know. The purpose of specifying the 2-seat SmartCar is that you’re forced to sit beside each other; there’s no escaping (or banning) to the back seat (or trunk, if you’re mean).
Same sex. I’d rather have 3000 miles of girl talk than try to figure out what to talk about with a strange guy. I figure if I’m driving I can stare straight ahead at the road, and if I’m the passenger I can look out the window.
I went with the same sex. I’m a guy and I don’t stare into people’s laps while I’m in the car and from the waist up and nude guy is no different from a guy at the beach. I’d still be tempted to look at the ugly boobies.
Based on my experience skinnydipping at the nudist camp… the nekkid doesn’t bother me. So I’d go with opposite sex because I can usually find more to talk about with men than with women. I’ve had conversations with extremely unattractive nekkid mens. It was only awkward for about 10 seconds, then we forgot all about being nekkid and just had a conversation.
I’m female, and I’d pick the lady. I feel it’s less likely that a naked woman would try to force herself on me. I would feel very unsafe that close to a naked male (irrational as that may be, I’m a victim of sexual assault and it is what it is). And if it WERE a male, I’d probably be involuntarily stealing glances at his body the whole time, which would probably make both of us very uncomfortable–and if I were driving, it would be unsafe.
Same sex. The naked thing wouldn’t bug me too much, but I’d rather not drive around with a strange penis bobbling around next to me. I wouldn’t be able to help looking at it and it would make me laugh, and that’s just not polite.