# Laugh or Orgasm?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 16, 1999, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961 "1999-09-16T05:22:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [September 16, 1999, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/1 "1999-09-16T05:22:00Z")
Well, conversation with some friends took a predictably weird turn, and, well, it seemed a good topic to share with y’all:
Which would you prefer to give/be given by your partner - a good laugh, or an orgasm?
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‘They couldn’t hit an Elephant from this dist…!’
Last words of General John Sedgwick
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### Author:  [@Zulu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulu)
#### Post date: [September 16, 1999, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/2 "1999-09-16T05:28:00Z")
I’ll have to go with laugh. I can give myself the orgasm if need be, and laughter can be given anywhere without the risk of getting arrested (or banned from the fitting room of the local department store).
Zu
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [September 16, 1999, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/3 "1999-09-16T05:48:00Z")
What!!! Anyone who would perfer a laugh than an orgasm has my pity. Laughs are a dime a dozen, and self induced orgasms don’t hold a candle to one’s shared.
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### Author:  [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)
#### Post date: [September 16, 1999, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/4 "1999-09-16T06:02:00Z")
A laugh. Sex is good, but the guy I’m with is the guy I’m supposedly spending forever with, and if we can’t laugh together we’ll never get through it! Of course, I’m 18, what do I know about a decent orgasm?
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
– Henry David Thoreau
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### Author:  [@Pooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pooch)
#### Post date: [September 16, 1999, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/5 "1999-09-16T06:15:00Z")
I like laughing and having an orgasm at the same time.
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### Author:  [@t.g](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t.g)
#### Post date: [September 16, 1999, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/6 "1999-09-16T06:29:00Z")
Orgasm, without a doubt, if he can’t give me that, I have nothing to laugh about, now do I.
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t.g.
sweet innocent little old grandma type person
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### Author:  [@Cap\_n\_Crude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Crude)
#### Post date: [September 16, 1999, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/7 "1999-09-16T13:32:00Z")
Assuming I _had_ a partner …
I’d like her to give me a full-service blowjob while I read _Dilbert_ and/or _Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_. After cumming and laughing like that, I could die a happy man.
Da Cap’n
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### Author:  [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)
#### Post date: [September 16, 1999, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/8 "1999-09-16T13:35:00Z")
A laugh. Orgasm can be self-service but a really good, bone-shaking belly laugh is hard to come by.
Luckily for me, my partner does both well. 😉
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### Author:  [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)
#### Post date: [September 16, 1999, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/9 "1999-09-16T14:16:00Z")
Gotta go with the laugh on this one. Sex is great. But I’ve had a few sexual encounters that ended before the orgasm, because something funny happened, and we were laughing too hard to continue. I do _not_ consider these failed attempts at sex…they were actually quite memorable, and we still had a good time.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 1999, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/10 "1999-09-16T14:33:00Z")
Oh my God, I have to **choose** one? Damn, that is a cruel choice. On a day to day basis, I guess I’d take the laughter. But if it was a “last request” scenario, give me the orgasm, please!
P.S. This beats the hell out of the Coke/Pepsi debate…
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### Author:  [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)
#### Post date: [September 16, 1999, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/11 "1999-09-16T14:42:00Z")
1. Orgasm
2. Laugh
3. Earlobe nibblin’ (close third)
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### Author:  [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)
#### Post date: [September 16, 1999, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/12 "1999-09-16T16:16:00Z")
Depends…can I have the orgasm last as long as some of the laughing fits I’ve had?
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You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.
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### Author:  [@Gibbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gibbie)
#### Post date: [September 17, 1999, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/13 "1999-09-17T05:00:00Z")
Actually there’s no real choice here. I simply would not have a partner who could not make me laugh. I have no use for a man without a sense of humor. Fortunately for me my boyfriend does both very well 😉
Gibbie
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### Author:  [@Donj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donj)
#### Post date: [September 17, 1999, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/14 "1999-09-17T05:49:00Z")
Orgasm all the way…anyone who says differently hasnt had a decent orgasm. 8^)
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### Author:  [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)
#### Post date: [September 16, 1999, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/15 "1999-09-16T21:06:00Z")
After giving this question too much thought, I’d have to say that while both are important, a laugh is more simply because I can laugh hundreds of times a day. Whereas I can only have an orgasm at best five or six times a day.
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Yer pal,
Satan
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### Author:  [@okatym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okatym)
#### Post date: [September 16, 1999, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/16 "1999-09-16T23:44:00Z")
Actually laughing stimulates me…ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hhhhaaahahahahah ha ha ha aha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Hmh hmaa. Ha ha ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Uh uh uuuuuh uuugghhh uuah uuh uh uh aah aah ah ah ah yes, yes yes yes yes yes yes (screaming) YYEESSS! YESSSSS! YYESSSS! YESSSSS! YESSSS! YESSS! YES! (super fast) YES! YES! YES! YES! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh (breathing heavy)
Anyone got a smoke?
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### Author:  [@timmar68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timmar68)
#### Post date: [September 17, 1999, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/17 "1999-09-17T04:58:00Z")
In my case, I can laugh anytime. But I have a hellava time achieving orgasm. I can only get one from hand/oral and even that takes a loooong time. I’ve never had the urge to come during intercourse. I love sex like everybody else but I never even come close to climaxing, and I don’t even get to the point where I feel like I might. All my ex-boyfriends, bless their hearts, have tried. But it’s just my “wiring”, I guess.
I can get myself to do it, but even then it takes (I’m not kidding) about 1/2 an hour, minimum. And I know just where to touch and all that. Damn! I’m depressed now!
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MaryAnn
Sometimes life is so great you just gotta muss up your hair and quack like a duck!
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### Author:  [@Lioness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lioness)
#### Post date: [September 17, 1999, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-or-orgasm/7961/18 "1999-09-17T05:03:00Z")
## I want both, just call me a greedy girl.
Lioness,
I rule the King of the jungle