# Straight people - which is worse?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 24, 2011, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998 "2011-05-24T11:16:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/1 "2011-05-24T11:16:06Z")
I wanna do a poll. The results will be most interesting (to me) if answered by the kind of straight people who think of themselves as 100% straight. So this would exclude those straight people who are up for anything when intoxicated and ready/willing to experiment under the right circumstances.
Question: would you rather have sex with a **very unattractive and dull/annoying** person of the opposite sex _or_ a **very attractive and cool/interetsing person** of your own sex. Assume the other person is completely willing and turned on by you.
[For the nitpickers: By “have sex” I mean engaging in various sexual activites like oral, along with penetration (with toys and/or body parts) AND making out before, during and/or after.]
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### Author:  [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/2 "2011-05-24T11:20:24Z")
Neither. I’d rather have sex with someone I was attracted to. Anything else is a considerably unpleasant thought.
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### Author:  [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/3 "2011-05-24T11:22:23Z")
Is this arse about face? Because usually this sort of poll is “Would you rather fuck the interesting/funny fugly person, or the dimwitted, annoying hottie”
If someone is both unattractive AND annoying, what possible reason could there be to fuck them?
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### Author:  [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/4 "2011-05-24T11:22:37Z")
Ok I really should have put the “if you _had_ to choose” in the OP.of course everyone is gonna say neither if that were a choice. :smack:
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### Author:  [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/5 "2011-05-24T11:23:53Z")
> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#):
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> Is this arse about face? Because usually this sort of poll is “Would you rather fuck the interesting/funny fugly person, or the dimwitted, annoying hottie”
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> If someone is both unattractive AND annoying, what possible reason could there be to fuck them?
Because the attractive and nice person is not of your preferred gender ^
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### Author:  [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/6 "2011-05-24T11:24:04Z")
Redacted, I missed that.
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### Author:  [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/7 "2011-05-24T11:25:35Z")
The heterosexual who finds it worse to sleep with someone of their own gender rather than an unattractive specimen of their preferred gender.
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### Author:  [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/8 "2011-05-24T11:30:20Z")
I have to fight the hypothetical here, because saying you “have” to choose one just doesn’t make sense. If the girl is ugly annoying and unpleasant enough that I’m unwilling to have sex with her, and the guy is a guy, you’re pretty much down to rape.
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### Author:  [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/9 "2011-05-24T11:38:37Z")
> [@Grumman](#):
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> I have to fight the hypothetical here, because saying you “have” to choose one just doesn’t make sense. If the girl is ugly annoying and unpleasant enough that I’m unwilling to have sex with her, and the guy is a guy, you’re pretty much down to rape.
Okay… imagine a very unrealistic scenario where you have to have sex in the next hour or you’ll die. The only two people available and willing are those described in the poll question. Other options don’t exist. Which option do you find less unpleasant?
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/10 "2011-05-24T12:46:14Z")
> [@phantom\_lamb](#):
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> Okay… imagine a very unrealistic scenario where you have to have sex in the next hour or you’ll die.
Not ideal conditions to have sex, in my view.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/11 "2011-05-24T12:52:42Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#):
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> Not ideal conditions to have sex, in my view.
Even worse for those of us who have an outie not an innie.
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### Author:  [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/12 "2011-05-24T12:59:56Z")
in the spirit of the “Boink or Die” scenario, I would prefer to have sex with the ugly annoying dude. Provided, of course, that after I do the nasty with him I can leave and not have to spend any quality time with him again after that.
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### Author:  [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/13 "2011-05-24T13:01:57Z")
Boy. You folks really know how to kung fu the hypothetical.
If I have to choose between a gross guy or a hot girl, I would go with the hot girl, even though I consider myself straight. I can only imagine what kind of sadistic hypothetical fight the hot girl lost in order to have to end up with me.
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/14 "2011-05-24T13:14:15Z")
> [@phantom\_lamb](#):
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> Okay… imagine a very unrealistic scenario where you have to have sex in the next hour or you’ll die. The only two people available and willing are those described in the poll question. Other options don’t exist. Which option do you find less unpleasant?
I’m straight so I’d fuck the unattractive/annoying one and ask her to be quiet and keep my eyes closed while I think of somebody I want to fuck.
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### Author:  [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/15 "2011-05-24T13:16:15Z")
actually, can I volunteer to be the annoying, ugly girl who gets to sleep with the straight guys who won’t bat for the other team? 😛
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/16 "2011-05-24T13:18:36Z")
Hey straight guys: If you’re gonna turn down all the guys who are good-looking, smart and fun . . . could you send a few my way? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/17 "2011-05-24T13:20:52Z")
The question does not compute. It isn’t possible for a guy to be attractive in the sense you use. Sure, I can understand that women think Brad Pitt is more attractive than, well, me for example, but that doesn’t mean that Brad is sexually attractive to everyone. You might as well be asking if I would rather screw the winner of the Westminster Dog show. She might be the best looking bitch around but still not on my radar for sex.
So, unless there are open sores and pustules I’m going with the girl.
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/18 "2011-05-24T13:40:13Z")
I have to make out, too? In that case, I’m going to have to go with the cute and fun girl. I’m not narrow-minded, just pretty heavily on the straight end of the Kinsey scale, so a gal isn’t someone I’d look at for sex. In this instance, I’m assuming there’s no way you can make annoying dude STFU, and I really don’t want to reward annoyingness. 😛
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### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/19 "2011-05-24T13:53:11Z")
I think the OP does not understand what “straight” means. As a straight man, I do not find men sexually attractive in any way. There’s no freakin loopholes. You mind as well add “fucked up the ass by a gorilla” as one of the options.
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### Author:  [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-people-which-is-worse/582998/20 "2011-05-24T14:08:16Z")
Well, I voted before I saw all the ceveats so I voted neither.
However, I guess if I had to choose I would go for the girl. I’ve had sex with enough ugly and annoying guys to last me a lifetime. 😛
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