# Sex without love, love without sex **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 5, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338 "2008-02-05T02:55:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338/41 "2008-02-07T19:42:41Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Whipped cream is also good. The kind in the can, not the tub. [/QUOTE] Applesauce was interesting as well. The ice cubes were a bit shocking, though. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338/42 "2008-02-07T19:46:32Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Actually, I heard it was Woody Allen who said this. [/QUOTE] I thought it was Duran Duran? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338/43 "2008-02-07T19:49:00Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] I thought it was Duran Duran? [/QUOTE] 😛😃😛😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrknButterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BrknButterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrknButterfly)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338/44 "2008-02-07T22:22:28Z")
[QUOTE=NajaNivea] Well, at least the search for the ultimately compatible partner has its benefits, whether or not you ever find the partner in question 😃 [/QUOTE] In some ways, yes and other ways, no. I have one FWB and he is an ex. No strings attached. Most of the time there are no emotions, but we flip flop on that every once in a while. I don’t dare go out and just jump some random guy for the hell of it. My family like to get a little to involved in my life and “slut” has come up a time or too. So I will just stick with my ex and date a guy if the situation presents itself.. but no one night hook ups with random strangers. ---
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338/45 "2008-02-07T22:25:01Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] I’ve never had sex without love, it’s like pancakes without the syrup, a fluffy stack of blah. Fool’s Gold. [/QUOTE] omg - I love pancakes with no syrup… damn. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338/46 "2008-02-08T14:43:35Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] I wouldn’t know how to have sex without love, to be honest. \ [/QUOTE] Most people find that alcohol helps. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338/47 "2008-02-08T14:54:34Z")
Nah, if anything, drunk people tend to get overly emotional. If I had a dime for every drunken man who’s declared his undying love for me… … well, I’d have a \*bunch \* of dimes. Maybe even enough for a large coffee. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338/48 "2008-02-08T14:59:09Z")
[QUOTE=DianaG] Nah, if anything, drunk people tend to get overly emotional. If I had a dime for every drunken man who’s declared his undying love for me… … well, I’d have a \*bunch \* of dimes. Maybe even enough for a large coffee. [/QUOTE] Not at Starbucks prices. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338/49 "2008-02-08T15:03:52Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] I thought it was Duran Duran? [/QUOTE] It was, once. ---
**Author:** ![evangelinagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@evangelinagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evangelinagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338/50 "2008-02-08T23:06:58Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] I wouldn’t know how to have sex without love, to be honest. For whatever reason, I just don’t attract girls who are looking for that: the girls I’ve always attracted have wanted the complete package. I still haven’t completely settled the argument inside my mind as to whether this has made my life richer or not. Sometimes I really wish I’d been the kind of guy who could “hit it and quit it” and who had a resume of sex partners that was at least as long as his resume of fingers on one hand, but most of the time I think I’ve been better off for the way I’ve handled things. [/QUOTE] For what it is worth, I think you are better off for the way you have handled things. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338/51 "2008-02-09T00:45:32Z")
Another pertinent Woody Allen quote: “Don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone I love.” ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338/52 "2008-02-09T03:18:55Z")
Do relationships really pivot this much on sex? I will never understand humans. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338/53 "2008-02-09T15:02:36Z")
Huh huh huh. He said “pivot.” Huh huh huh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-without-love-love-without-sex/436338.md?page=2)