# Interpretation Opinions Wanted
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 22, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170 "2003-09-22T20:03:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@The\_Ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ryan)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/1 "2003-09-22T20:03:04Z")
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> Person A: Also, only [vaginal] intercourse causes pregnancy, so abstinence isn’t necessary. No one ever got pregnant from a blow job.
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> Person B: Yeah, that’s great FOR YOU. Blow jobs aren’t too much fun for us girls, sorry to say (not all of us, I know, I know).
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> Person C: What about cunnilingus?
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> Person D: Nice, but it isn’t the same. Sometimes you want _sex_ you know? Two bodies moving as one and all that.
Concluding that Person D believes that a sex life that does not include vaginal intercourse is lacking something important is:
A: the only reasonable interpretation.
B: not the only reasonable interpretation, but clearly the best.
C: one of several reasonable interpretations, of which none is clearly the best.
D: a reasonable interpretation, but there is another which is clearly better.
E: a completely unreasonable interpretation.
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### Author:  [@Ben\_Hicks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben_Hicks)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/2 "2003-09-22T20:10:04Z")
A…I guess.
Why’s this in the pit?
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### Author:  [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/3 "2003-09-22T20:15:59Z")
This is from an SAT test, isn’t it?
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### Author:  [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/4 "2003-09-22T20:18:56Z")
And sometimes, I forget my PIN number at the ATM machine. :smack:
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### Author:  [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/5 "2003-09-22T20:22:41Z")
There’s no way I’d have scored as high as I did if this were on the SAT! Also, it’s probably a no-no to bring up oral sex on national standardized tests.
Oh, and the answer… 'Elefino. B probably. My experience is that there’s NEVER just one reasonable interpretation.
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### Author:  [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/6 "2003-09-22T20:24:01Z")
I thought that we weren’t suppose to do your homework? 🙂
I am going to go with C.
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### Author:  [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/7 "2003-09-22T20:27:06Z")
OG SMASH!!!
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Random)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/8 "2003-09-22T20:34:18Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Bruce\_Daddy \*
> \*\*This is from an SAT test, isn’t it? \*\*
I burning your SAT test!
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### Author:  [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/9 "2003-09-22T20:52:50Z")
I’d say D, and for extra credit:
Person D believes that, **for herself/himself** , a sex life that does not include vaginal intercourse is lacking something important.
What do I win?
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### Author:  [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/10 "2003-09-22T21:04:01Z")
Well, person D’s statement does not exclude anal sex. I think C seems to be a good option.
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### Author:  [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/11 "2003-09-22T21:12:53Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Bruce\_Daddy \*
> This is from an SAT test, isn’t it?
I know someone whose husband is responsible for the rollout of the new SAT, so maybe I’ll ask if this is on there. 😉
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_Originally posted by The Ryan_
Concluding that Person D believes that a sex life that does not include vaginal intercourse is lacking something important is:
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I don’t think Person D’s statement is making a general claim but rather a claim about her desires. She also doesn’t indicate what level of importance [vaginal]
intercourse holds. Therefore, I go with D.
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/12 "2003-09-22T22:00:58Z")
NOTA
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### Author:  [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/13 "2003-09-22T22:24:29Z")
I’m thoroughly confused, but I want to go on record as saying I’m pro-vaginal intercourse, pro-blowjob, and pro-cunnilingus. Not necessarily in that order.
[sub]It might have helped if the people had been 1,2,3,4 (or Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet, etc.) and the choices A,B,C,D.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/14 "2003-09-22T22:33:00Z")
Personally I believe that sex is incredible no matter what but then again I’m a gay man in a womans body so what do I know.
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### Author:  [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/15 "2003-09-22T22:40:10Z")
A. Though it isn’t clear if she believes that for her, or for everyone. (Thanks for spotting that, someone.)
Can anyone see any _other_ interpretation?
And now we’ve got some opinions, out of interest, why did you bring this up?
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### Author:  [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/16 "2003-09-22T23:11:06Z")
**The Ryan** , I believe the correct answer is B.
I think it’s reasonable to assume this is what Person D meant, but only from Person D’s very shallow-minded perspective. I don’t think lesbian sex excludes the “two bodies moving as one and all that,” simply because there’s no vaginal penetration without either priapism or accessories. Two bodies can still move together, expressing the motions of the tides, the depths of passion, the heat of flesh in a very meaningful manner.
I am a straight male who “saved himself” almost all the way through college. Sexual intercourse, while gratifying, was not the pinnacle of sensuality for me – it was the ensconcing in her body, the pressure of her tummy on mine, the softness of her thigh around my hip, the sway of her breasts against my chest – that yielded the _connection_ of consummation.
Oh, wait, why don’t you just ask Person D?
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### Author:  [@The\_Ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ryan)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/17 "2003-09-25T06:58:13Z")
I asked because I came to the conclusion presented in the OP during [url=“[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=210298](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=210298)”]another thread[/url. OpalCat (Person D) said that it was stupid and completely unsupported by her statement. I put it in the Pit because it was responding to another Pit thread, and because it is discussing a particular poster (although not by name). Mr. B, it is interesting that you bring up lesbians, as I too thought that it implied that gays are missing out on something. However, that point was never discussed, as OpalCat was too busy being outraged to discuss her feelings on that matter.
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/18 "2003-09-25T15:01:42Z")
Gays of either sex _are_ missing out on something. Why worry? They don’t want what they are missing. It’s time enough to worry when someone states that they _ought_ to want it. Even I, notorious homophobe that I am, never made that claim. Nor, more to the point, does **OpalCat**.
Can someone get this thread a plaster cast and a crutch?
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/19 "2003-09-25T15:20:10Z")
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> Gays of either sex are missing out on something.
What are they missing out on?
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### Author:  [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interpretation-opinions-wanted/203170/20 "2003-09-25T15:25:26Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \*
> \*\*What are they missing out on? \*\*
Marriage.
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