Inspired by a conversation at work today where a colleague related a story whereby he was on a passenger flight when both pilots became hypoxic (unknown to the passengers at the time but they were acutely aware that the cabin had become unpressurised), he related that a female friend in another seat was looking up and down the cabin during the event and when he asked her later what she was doing she told him that she was trying to decide which male to shag before she died.
Now this is something you always hear people say when such hypothetical situations are discussed, I was wondering if this has ever really happened? Has the entwined body of a couple in the process of coitus been discovered post disaster, has someone ever jumped someone else only for the catastrophe to pass safely and there to be a lot of embarrassed glances and muttered coughs afterwards?
Or, as I suspect, is it just something people like to say and its never really happened.
Yes, I’m aware that sex-drive is increased in the face of danger, but thats usually either in drawn out situations or intercourse taking place after the danger has passed.
Well, “ever” is a pretty broad brush. But I’m guessing that it’s exceedingly rare. Particularly since that sex time might be better spent extracting yourself from whatever situation is putting you in danger.
There’s this thing called the “fight or flight” response in which
I took a psychopharmacology course in college and this response was studied (in the context of brain physiology so that we could then understand what various drugs do in the brain). My professor said it should really be called “fight, flight, or fuck” because the same rush of chemicals that either makes you want to instinctively fight or flee might also make you instinctively want to get it on. It’s an evolutionary response tht humans have developed that helps us adapt to and/or overcome danger.
I was thinking something similar. How many types of catastrophes are there where people have enough time to consider and then engage in intercourse but where the individuals, despite all human instinct to survive, have completely given up on the idea of trying anything to save themselves? Desperation to live would usually rule the day, wouldn’t it?
In a long drawn out situation (i.e., castle under relentless siege,) I think people might want to have sex if death or some fate is inevitable.
In the face of impending plane crash? I think everyone would be terrified and sex would be the last thing on their minds. It’s a metal tube traveling at hundreds of miles per hour.
Agreed, but I’m wondering if there are any actual verifiable examples of it happening?
I’m aware of the fight or flight response and as I stated in the OP that danger can be arousing, but that doesn’t answer the question, if anyone actually has grabbed the nearest person of appropriate gender and went out with a bang so to speak.
Yep, yet its something people commonly say when presented with these scenarios, just wondering if its actually occurred!
Actually, there are. The city of Pompeii is a great example. There was some warning, but not nearly enough for people to reach safety. People were literally frozen in time the instant the super hot ash hit them. Archeologists have documented finding over 1,000 people cooked to death mid-coitus, representing 67 of the 69 commonly known sexual positions.
[sub] The above is a lie made up from whole cloth. No such discoveries were ever made, butDH seemed so earnest in his search that I thought I would provide a fauxcite[/sub]
There may not be any rules against it but that was a pretty jerkish thing to do.
And yet despite your mocking and this being such a common assertion there doesn’t seem to be an actual examples of it actually occurring, known ones anyway. Curious.
I’m sorry if you took the post as mocking you, it wasn’t intended to be. It was simply a joke. It is a common meme, but I know of no “proof” that it has ever happened and doubt that you will find any.
