# I Give Up on Sex **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 17, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323 "2001-03-17T02:15:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/1 "2001-03-17T02:15:25Z")
Yep. Had enough trying. Nothing works anymore. 'Bout time I faced the fact that my sex life is over for this lifetime. Sorry, ladies. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/2 "2001-03-17T02:19:09Z")
Have you tried livestock? ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/3 "2001-03-17T02:21:15Z")
Well you can always _buy_ it. Alot of aging men can attest to that. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/4 "2001-03-17T02:26:50Z")
Buck it up mate. How old are you, Mid 30’s or so? Many Roman Catholic preacher men live long lives 🙂 Sex is not the be all and end all to a mans life Damn and, I was so trying to stop lying for lent ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/5 "2001-03-17T02:27:21Z")
I promised not to complain, but this part-Setter always wants to keep his shillelagh polished. Would this particular trough somehow be related to marriage? I’ve heard that pretty much puts the lock-down on the sex-life, in some cases. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/6 "2001-03-17T02:46:43Z")
Yeah, yeah. I can sympathize, really. I’m going on 2 months with none. And far longer since I’ve had relationship sex. I’m ok with the whole non-relationship thing. It’s the lack of sex that gets to me. If you were closer to Atlanta, I’d offer to help you out. But, alas, it’s not to be. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![sk8rixtx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sk8rixtx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sk8rixtx)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/7 "2001-03-17T02:51:15Z")
You may SAY that, but I know what’s REALLY goin’ on… ---
**Author:** ![callie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@callie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callie)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/8 "2001-03-17T03:03:50Z")
Sorry to hear that **Eutychus55**. When you say that “nothing works” anymore - is that physically or figuratively? There is lots that can be done for, ya know, the physical aspect. 😃 If its the other, maybe some of us SDMB ladies can give you some advice. Just a thought. 😉 [sub] **cnotechris** - next time - I promise[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/9 "2001-03-17T03:10:24Z")
You sure get around, **callie** dear. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/10 "2001-03-17T03:26:31Z")
Well, you know what they say about masturbation - you meet a better class of people that way. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![callie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@callie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callie)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/11 "2001-03-17T04:01:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CnoteChris \* > \*\*You sure get around, **callie** dear. \*\* Oh how sweet… wait a minute… was that a… no I’m sure it wasn’t. The “dear” at the end saved you. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/12 "2001-03-17T04:10:35Z")
Euty, I commiserate. Unless the 25 year old Brazilian stripper who lives next to me, who coincidentally I have been feeding drinks to IRL between posts, wants to um, how do you say it, THANK me. In that case… neener, neener, neener. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/13 "2001-03-17T04:23:03Z")
It’s because you’re circumcised. ;j ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/14 "2001-03-17T04:51:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus55 \* > \*\*Yep. Had enough trying. Nothing works anymore. 'Bout time I faced the fact that my sex life is over for this lifetime. > > Sorry, ladies. \*\* You should try homosexuality. Or the priesthood. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/15 "2001-03-17T04:59:38Z")
What’s the diff? (a former Catholic who had issues with the Pope, he owes me money.) ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/16 "2001-03-17T08:23:20Z")
I gave up on orgasms. Them I can get for myself. The only reason I have sex anymore is for the foreplay. …or was that not sensitive enough? Aw, Euty. **I** ’d do ya. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/17 "2001-03-17T09:51:09Z")
Thanks for treating it like a joke, everybody. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/18 "2001-03-17T10:25:21Z")
Euty, we have to treat it like a joke. We’d be too horrified otherwise…want to tell us what’s behind that unhappy little statement? If we have nothing to work with we create our own tangents. Its not that we don’t want to support you, or that we don’t take you seriously. We just don’t know what you want of us…so tell us the story…please? ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/19 "2001-03-17T10:48:54Z")
Maybe you’re trying too hard and coming off as desperate? My best friend (a 20 year male, for the record) comes off as so pushy, he scares girls away. Since I’ve known him, he’s given up on trying to get laid 3 different times, and usually soon after, he gets some. It’s a pretty good idea, if you think about it… ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323/20 "2001-03-17T12:09:28Z")
Aww, Euty…are you talking about sex with a person you’re involved with or married to, or sex in general? We could respond more appropriately if we knew… Otherwise, I’d stay away from livestock. Especially with this F&M thing. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-give-up-on-sex/58323.md?page=2)