# If you had the superpower of seduction, how many people would you sleep with? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 27, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883 "2004-11-27T16:19:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/21 "2004-11-27T22:01:48Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I’m a woman. All I have to do is say “yes.” So – how would this alleged superpower differ from real life? Yep. And I put it to very infrequent use it real life. Before I became happily monogamous. My husband gives me both enough sex and enough variety. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/22 "2004-11-27T23:23:58Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I’m a woman. All I have to do is say “yes.” So – how would this alleged superpower differ from real life? All we men need is $40, so we have this power too. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/23 "2004-11-27T23:26:45Z")
Not comparable. We have to work for it and, even if the post was made tongue in cheek, there’s a bit of truth to it. If a woman wants sex, she can find it a hell of a lot easier than a man can. So far as the OP goes: lots. I’d be dead from complications of half a dozen or more STDs within a year. ---
**Author:** ![Caiata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@Caiata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caiata)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/24 "2004-11-28T00:05:22Z")
Eh, while I _definitely_ would have bagged Ian from Powderfinger when I met him in Toronto 😃 , I don’t think I would add anyone else to my current tally. Nowadays I’m too concerned with the intellectual inadequacy of most of the guys I see on a daily basis (my SO and a few others excepted) that I couldn’t possibly conjure a desire to _sleep_ with them. Besides - cheating on my SO just 'cause I _could_? Nuh-uh. ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/25 "2004-11-28T01:08:01Z")
365 partners wow! Assuming a Birth Control “Accident” rate of 1% that is 3 babies, maybe 4 (given the women would presumably be on your time and not their own its logical to go higher). 30-40 kids in your lifetime. Since one out of five of the total adolescent and adult population is infected with genital herpes, and almost 75% of the women don‘t realize it and couldn‘t tell you, you would play Russian Roulette with somewhere about 60 of these partners that first year 300-400 over the lifetime. Assuming you were super careful you might escape Clamydia, but since your partners would probably be mostly women 18-25 I doubt it given enough time and the epidemic rates. This doesn’t include the women with Syphilis, gonorrhea, genital warts, non-specific inflammatory disease, hepatitis(s), mono & crabs. I sound like an Afterschool Special. I know. But its true. Be careful what you wish for. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/26 "2004-11-28T02:44:35Z")
I don’t even know, seriously, the answer to the question. I just would be in it for the celebrity factor. Like how much fun it would be to have sex with George W., or something like that, just to be able to say “I f\*cked the leader of the free world, bitches!” Or maybe some famous anti-gay lobbyist. GWB fits there, too, I guess, but I meant someone else. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/27 "2004-11-28T14:42:10Z")
I’d try to see if I could get a threesome with Katey Sagal and Kaley Cuoco (she’s 18, right? 😃 ) ---
**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:** [November 28, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/28 "2004-11-28T14:49:56Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > I don’t know, but I know I would sleep with at least one rich, naive woman, get her pregnant, get custody and collect 6 figure alimony payments. Sorry, even naive women have lawyers if they are **rich** , better lawyers than you can afford. She will get custody and you will pay alimony, lots of alimony. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/29 "2004-11-28T19:55:42Z")
I suspect that after the novelty factor wore off, I’d end up with extreme self-worth issues. I’d probably want to have a small harem of “keepers” rather than continue in limitless promiscuity. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/30 "2004-11-28T20:15:25Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > The superpower includes the fact that your spouse or SO is fine with your exploits Holy crap, really? If I knew I wouldn’t hurt my wife, I’d be at it like a rabbit. I wouldn’t be able to walk after the first day. I think I would shag myself to death within a week. Though I wonder… would it get boring? I’d imagine someone like Brad Pitt (who my wife met once, and made her melt - she gets a free pass from me if she can meet him again) would be pretty close to this superpower, and look at him - he’s settled down with one woman, and, if we are to ignore salacious gossip, is faithful. Maybe after, say, the first four decades, this would happen to me too. ---
**Author:** ![Avenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@Avenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avenger)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/31 "2004-11-28T20:38:38Z")
Age of consent here is 16, I demand that my superpowers be adjusted accordingly! ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/32 "2004-11-28T21:34:44Z")
It would be tempting, but I doubt I would use it. It would be morally wrong, like making them have sex. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/33 "2004-11-28T21:39:12Z")
> [@monica](#): > > It would be tempting, but I doubt I would use it. It would be morally wrong, like making them have sex. How would it differ from being stunningly attractive? (Not saying you’re not, but I know I sure as hell ain’t. But stunningly attractive people surely have some of this “superpower”.) ---
**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/34 "2004-11-29T01:16:40Z")
Well if they MUST be above 18, then I’m out. 😛 No really, 4. There are 4 people in my life I want to make mad, passionate love to. One I already do on occasion, two are celebrities and one I never see enough. I suppose if I had this power, I might ‘try out’ people that I heard were good just to learn their techniques, but there are only 4 people I can think of right now that I really want to fuck. They’re all men if that matters. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/35 "2004-11-29T02:42:49Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > How would it differ from being stunningly attractive? (Not saying you’re not, but I know I sure as hell ain’t. But stunningly attractive people surely have some of this “superpower”.) Well yeah, but even stunningly attractive people run up against people who drool strongly for them but choose to be loyal to their current SOs. The superpower would override that desire to be faithful, making the recipient not only “change” their mind about that, but also thinking afterwards that cheating was a good idea. And imagine the repercussions should the SO find out - and discover that their partner is actually pretty happy about the whole affair/one night stand. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/36 "2004-11-29T18:05:56Z")
1, but I can’t decide between Kate Bush or Charlotte Church 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/37 "2004-11-29T19:25:55Z")
Ah, if I had such a power, it wouldn’t be a question of how many, but who!.. …which would probably end up being very few. I’m not really hot on any celebrities, so I’d probably seduce guys who I found appealing both in personality and looks. Vague and pretty boring, but it’s what floats my boat. That is, if I wasn’t married to Mr. AFG…hey sweetie…heh heh… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/38 "2004-11-29T19:58:41Z")
Ah, but there are _some_ celebrities (or famous people, rather) who are definitely hot enough to consider. At least to me. So, are they within the bounds of our superpowers? Or was that part covered already and I missed it? If it’s okay, and all other morality/disease/pregnancy issues aside, I’d have to go with at least 3 (and a little change) right off the bat. Then, I’d go back and enjoy some I missed the first go 'round. After that, I’d probably use my ability for good. 🙂 To find the perfect fit for me (heh) and be blissfully happy the rest of my life. But only if he loves me once I’ve given up my ‘extra help’ and wants me all just for myself. Then it’d be _only_ with that one partner forever. 'Cause once I’ve found my filet mignon, no point in bothering with yummy, but not long-term-satisfying snacks. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/39 "2004-11-29T20:01:06Z")
Honestly, I can only think of two off the top of my head. One is a girl at work who I’ve wanted to “fuck” (not “have sex with” or “make love to”) for a really, really long time. Partially because she’s really hot, partially because she’s such a bitch. I guess I manifest my loathing of her as lust. The other is that really cute girl who works behind the counter at my gym. Almost unbearably cute with a killer body. After that I’d probably settle into one or two new girls a week. Round that off to about 75 new girls a year, so I’d be looking at between 3,500 and 4,000 lifetime. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883/40 "2004-11-29T22:15:10Z")
Wait… what kind of lame Superpower is this? I can have sex with whomever I want, but I have to _find_ them, and _TALK_ to them for it to work? Those are the two hardest parts, aren’t they? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-superpower-of-seduction-how-many-people-would-you-sleep-with/276883.md?page=3)