# Odd things that make people horny--or, contrariwise, sad. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 24, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834 "2010-07-24T14:22:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/1 "2010-07-24T14:22:37Z")
I’ll open the bidding with a comment I made in Annie X-mas’s thunderstorm thread; I had a girlfriend in high school who was extremely aroused by thunderstorms. Snowstorms, oddly enough, left her very depressed. Anybody else? Bueller? ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/2 "2010-07-24T14:44:29Z")
As in the aforementioned thread, thunderstorms have made me horny since high school. What makes me sad is **Skald** defining my response to snowstorms as “very depressed” when to me (at the time) it was “reflective.” ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/3 "2010-07-24T14:49:19Z")
What’s so contrariwise about being sad and horny? They are entirely compatible reactions. (Next time you’re horny and have no one to play with, you can make the assessment yourself!) Autumn makes me horny and snow makes me elated and rain makes me miserable and cranky. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/4 "2010-07-24T14:52:46Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > As in the aforementioned thread, thunderstorms have made me horny since high school. > > What makes me sad is **Skald** defining my response to snowstorms as “very depressed” when to me (at the time) it was “reflective.” You were _reflective_ during thunderless rainstorms, and would be all _Is it possible to resolve the notion of a beneficient sovereign deity with all the suffering in the world_. You were _depressed_ when you were all _Why, God, why oh why did you saddle me with this delusional nutjob who compensates for his tiny dick by starting fights with the basketball team._ In one circumstance you’d be sitting in your car chain-smoking cigarettes. In the other you’d be lying face down on the sofa and weeping. Subtle difference. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/5 "2010-07-24T15:12:17Z")
Well, this thread has taken a turn for the uncomfortably voyeuristic. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/6 "2010-07-24T15:20:30Z")
Speaking of weeping, there’s a fetish called dacryphilia, where people are aroused by seeing other people crying. I’d say that fits the bill in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/7 "2010-07-24T15:29:43Z")
You see **Skald**? This is why we broke up. We resolved the sovereign deity question during an ear-splitting, thunderous, velvet sky night punched through with angry lightening. Our world: all ours - and absolutesly _no_ suffering to be had. Indeed there _was_ a God \*that \*night… Not _once_ did I ever suggest that you have a “tiny dick” - what I said was, “Why oh WHY does the basketball team start fights? They just look like nutjobs with tiny dicks!! Saddle me, oh mighty Skald - I feel a thunderstorm coming on…!” Though you’re right about the sitting in the car chain-smoking cigarettes. (My Film noir moments. And the best place to not be caught smoking.) As for the lying face down on the sofa and weeping, I was just trying to find out if sympathy sex was all it was cracked up to be. Oh **Skald**. What we had… ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/8 "2010-07-24T15:35:07Z")
How about the regret associated with opening an increasingly voyeuristic thread. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/9 "2010-07-24T15:37:31Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > You see **Skald**? This is why we broke up. We broke up because of that thing with you and the cheerleaders. Well–me and the cheerleaders. Well–it was SUPPOSED to be me and the cheerleaders, but you had to get all experimental and junk. > [@](#): > > Though you’re right about the sitting in the car chain-smoking cigarettes. (My Film noir moments. And the best place to not be caught smoking.) As for the lying face down on the sofa and weeping, I was just trying to find out if sympathy sex was all it was cracked up to be. > > Oh **Skald**. What we had… What is “sympathy”? ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/10 "2010-07-24T15:39:05Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > How about the regret associated with opening an increasingly voyeuristic thread. No regrets here Aft3d. I like to be watched. It’s only fair. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/11 "2010-07-24T15:50:13Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > We broke up because of that thing with you and the cheerleaders. Well–me and the cheerleaders. Well–it was SUPPOSED to be me and the cheerleaders, but you had to get all experimental and junk. > > What is “sympathy”? It wasn’t about me being all experimental; it was about you lying face down on the sofa weeping about usually being able to last much longer, while I was hard at it keeping the cheerleaders, well, cheery. Sympathy, my dearest **Skald** is not what you want to ask Paul Laurence Dunbar about. You’ll be chain-smoking in the car. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/12 "2010-07-24T15:52:39Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > > > We broke up because of that thing with you and the cheerleaders. Well–me and the cheerleaders. Well–it was SUPPOSED to be me and the cheerleaders, but you had to get all experimental and junk. > > > > What is “sympathy”? > > It wasn’t about me being all experimental; it was about you lying face down on the sofa weeping about usually being able to last much longer, while I was hard at it keeping the cheerleaders, well, cheery. > > Sympathy, my dearest **Skald** is not what you want to ask Paul Laurence Dunbar about. You’ll be chain-smoking in the car. And people wonder why I turned to villainy in my late youth. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/13 "2010-07-24T16:01:25Z")
Is this for real? It reads like a porn setup. And aren’t real threads like this against the rules? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/14 "2010-07-24T16:03:19Z")
Seriously, WTF? ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/15 "2010-07-24T16:05:01Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > Speaking of weeping, there’s a fetish called dacryphilia, where people are aroused by seeing other people crying. I’d say that fits the bill in this thread. If Skald is crying, I’ve got it. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/16 "2010-07-24T16:06:40Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Seriously, WTF? We were just kidding, y’all. I thought the cheerleader thing was an obvious tip-off. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/17 "2010-07-24T16:17:26Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > > [@MsWhatsit](#): > > > > Seriously, WTF? > > We were just kidding, y’all. I thought the cheerleader thing was an obvious tip-off. Seriously?!? _ **W T F** _?!? ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/18 "2010-07-24T16:17:40Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > > [@MsWhatsit](#): > > > > Seriously, WTF? > > We were just kidding, y’all. I thought the cheerleader thing was an obvious tip-off. The internet is serious business!!! ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/19 "2010-07-24T16:24:16Z")
Look, people, before I have had coffee on a Saturday, I cannot be held responsible for my actions. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834/20 "2010-07-24T16:28:30Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > [ > > The internet is serious business!!! Too right, C\_I\_B . And feeling mortally wounded by Skald’s last comment, I can only hope that you can add something to this thread in terms of any oddities you may harbour in the external vs internal response mechanism. Something interesting will definitely have me feel better. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-that-make-people-horny-or-contrariwise-sad/547834.md?page=2)