I’m married & have 2 highly energetic kids. I get #2. #1 isn’t even on the menu. BTW- you forgot #3 which is “You don’t like it? Then go post on that Damn Computer and let me sleep.”
Somehow reading that post made my laptop computer get, like 2 pounds heavier, and I don’t underst-- wait, never mind.
I’m thinking that Eldridge probably wouldn’t lay a finger on the white devil.
It depends on whether kissing is considered a sexual act.
If it is then I choose #1.
If not then #2.
I chose #2.
It’s okay.
What I don’t understand is the people who haven’t read this book yet. I thought it was as de rigeur here as “The Princess Bride” and Joss Whedon. 
(It really is a good book. It isn’t really like any of Stephen King’s other books.)
This really is a tough question. I don’t like either choice - neither would be satisfying in the long run. “Do you want chocolate cake for the rest of your life with no other desserts, or every other kind of dessert but no chocolate cake ever again?” I’m going to have to decline to choose on the grounds that I don’t have to. 
< Insert “Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night” joke here >
Oh, yeah. Female here. This is a really really tough question. I’d have to go with #2–not because I’m a plain-vanilla type, but because I think I’d feel quite unsatisfied without good ol’fashioned fucking. Anal is totally different. Maybe it would be a reasonable substitute for a man, but for me, it wouldn’t be.
But really what I’d do is dump Harold, stop saving myself for that freak Randall Flagg, and go seduce Stu Redman or something.
"How’s it goin’, East Texas? "
I’ve had a couple relationships that were all #1 (like in high school and college, when the girls were much more worried about getting pregnant) and one that was all #2, and I’d have to go with the #1. A man (and most women, evidently) needs variety.
And to voice an unpopular opinion, I didn’t even like The Stand. I found it tedious.
Not Stu - he and Fran had too good a thing. You’d have to go find some other nice, [del]horny[/del] lonely guy.
Trash Can Man looks like he could stand to get a little sum’n-sum’n.
The complete lack of foreplay in choice #2 is a total turn off.
Foreplay is such a crucial part of sex. Limiting it severely would totally kill the whole act.
I think either of those, even given anal sex in #1, would eventually and/or quickly start sucking (or chafing, maybe?)
(Also, I’m a dude for those of you who don’t know)
#2, I choose you!
You know, I’d agree with you, but that damn mini-series totally messed with my perceptions of everything. I just can’t accept that Stu really loves Molly Ringwald.
And sorry, KTK, but the Trashcan Man just doesn’t do it for me.
How about the Monster Crier, then? Once you you Kareem, you never go back, I’m told.
Or hands up. Or hands to the side. Or one hand up, one hand, um, somewhere else. Or both hands very busy. Etc.
Thankfully, I was not drinking a beverage at the time I read this or it would have been all over my monitor.
Oh, and I also refuse to choose.
Maybe some of us are pretending that Molly Ringwald was never in that mini-series. Maybe some of are pretending that Fran was played by someone worthy of the role. 
cough Claire Danes cough