# Sex before Catastrophe - is it really a thing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 4, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-before-catastrophe-is-it-really-a-thing/697495 "2014-09-04T16:51:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-before-catastrophe-is-it-really-a-thing/697495/21 "2014-09-08T23:57:08Z")
Data point from way over there. I knew guy who had a small twin. He had a Part 135 license. ( Fly for hire and his plane was certified, he was a straight arrow as far as flying went… We thought. ) He was on a trip with a female passenger to some place in Western Colorado. They never got there and they did not come home. Were found and I learned that when found, the plane had flown right into the side of a mountain, at night, with the auto-pilot engaged. His pants were down as near as they could tell. His passenger was nude, apparently jammed up under what was left of where the instrument panel was. His bitten off penis was still in her mouth. I know several people who have done it in small planes. On the deck of light twins such as a Piper Navaho. They all lived through that particular event. A really stupid way to mess up perfectly good airplanes IMO. _snerk_ I hope they both got off at least once before the clouds of granite got in the way. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-before-catastrophe-is-it-really-a-thing/697495/22 "2014-09-09T01:39:17Z")
There was an episode of Laverne and Shirley where they were locked in a bathroom with Lenny and Squiggy and thought they might never get out. The girls discussed whether or not they should fadodiododo with L & S. Of course they didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-before-catastrophe-is-it-really-a-thing/697495/23 "2014-09-09T02:13:28Z")
As horny and willing as I am most of time I can’t imagine wanting to have sex during a catastrophe such as an airplane crash about to happen. I would be thinking about giving it my best effort to try to survive it, not about reaching for my boyfriend’s penis (if he was with me) or the one of a stranger if he was not. Now then, if the catastrophe was something that was going to take a while such as an asteroid (the big one) heading directly for Earth, and the predicted outcome of it was going to be fatal for many if not most…well then…yes, I would be up for a few **really really good last rounds** with my sweetheart. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-before-catastrophe-is-it-really-a-thing/697495/24 "2014-09-10T23:12:04Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > Data point from way over there. > > I knew guy who had a small twin. > > \ > > I hope they both got off at least once before the clouds of granite got in the way. That sounds more like the shenanigans were the _cause_ of the accident rather than that they knew they were going to die and decided to get off before they got off though? ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-before-catastrophe-is-it-really-a-thing/697495/25 "2014-09-11T05:57:10Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > That sounds more like the shenanigans were the _cause_ of the accident rather than that they knew they were going to die and decided to get off before they got off though? You’re probably right. I was just and still am of what there last act that they left for the world to know. Also, proves he was not the pilot he though he was. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-before-catastrophe-is-it-really-a-thing/697495/26 "2014-09-11T14:41:32Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > His bitten off penis was still in her mouth. I hope he died instantly on crash impact, because it sounds like a horrifically painful injury to endure if he didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-before-catastrophe-is-it-really-a-thing/697495/27 "2014-09-11T15:49:52Z")
So you’re saying I should stop hitting on girls at cancer treatment centers and stand around rollercoasters? I kid, I kid. I know how pervy that sounds. ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-before-catastrophe-is-it-really-a-thing/697495/28 "2014-09-11T17:14:09Z")
I was on this flight [Delta Fight Makes Safe Emergency Landing at JFK](http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Delta-Fight-Makes-Safe-Emergency-Landing-at-JFK-103816099.html) Cut to the chase: As we were assuming the brace position (head on crossed arms against the headrest in front of us) I glanced to the woman on left and said “But I don’t want to die a virgin!” She didn’t offer to rectify that (I wasn’t, tho sometimes it seems like it) but she did laugh so it lightened the moment. The actual landing was smoother than some I’d been on with all landing gear operational. Never again tho will I completely empty my pockets, it took 16 hours till the TSA finished their investigation to get our luggage and items we’d left aboard, which in my case was my cigarettes and cell phone. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-before-catastrophe-is-it-really-a-thing/697495/29 "2014-09-11T21:09:49Z")
That must be plum exciting in retrospect. _Adventure = terror in retrospect._ ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-before-catastrophe-is-it-really-a-thing/697495/30 "2014-09-12T01:16:52Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > It’s a metal tube traveling at hundreds of miles per hour. And then there’s the airplane. 😃 At its most base, have sex is a fairly rapid way to feel very very alive. It doesn’t surprise me that some people would react this way. In the face of an absolute death, why not feel alive one last time? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-before-catastrophe-is-it-really-a-thing/697495/31 "2014-09-12T02:52:05Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > In the face of an absolute death, why not feel alive one last time? Again, depends on what kind of death. The more rapid and also dreadful the death, the less likely people would be thinking about sex (in theory.) I don’t think any group of people trapped in a blazing building is going to be thinking about sex in their last moments. They’d probably be frantically running about, or cowering/hiding from the flames, to the end. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-before-catastrophe-is-it-really-a-thing/697495/32 "2014-09-12T06:09:54Z")
9/11 had the couple jumping hand-in-hand. If any two were to get in one last hump, they were the ones. Tales of small planes crashing with the occupants clothing neatly folded do exist - though they all seemed to have been caused by inattentive pilots, not Fate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-before-catastrophe-is-it-really-a-thing/697495.md?page=1)