# Switching bodies with your partner **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 26, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656 "2011-02-26T01:37:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/41 "2011-03-01T21:55:05Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > This is starting to read more like _Switching Bodies with the Amish_. That would be a heck of a rumspringa! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/42 "2011-03-01T21:55:39Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > This is starting to read more like _Switching Bodies with the Amish_. Maybe it seems like that to thee. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/43 "2011-03-01T22:11:45Z")
I don’t… really want back hair. I also don’t really understand how guys walk around with those weird genitals without it getting annoying. So I guess I’m good, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/44 "2011-03-03T18:26:05Z")
Something just occurred to me: I’d be hitting my head on things all the time, not accustomed to being 6’10". And my partner would still duck going through doorways, even though he’d no longer have to. And I’d spend a whole lot of time staying at home and doing something that my partner can do, but most men can’t. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ripopgome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@ripopgome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ripopgome)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/45 "2011-03-03T23:27:53Z")
Agree that long weekend is better than 30d for this, but FUCK YEAH. Women are awesome, so being one, and seeing for example, what it feels like to orgasm 5 times in a row? Count me in on that. I think I’d be sad to go back to being male. I’d probably better appreciate how hard it is to be my wife, too. The bra thing in particular seems like a pain in the chest (they’re large). That might not be so fun. We’re different races, too, so that would be potentially super interesting (and possibly, very depressing) to experience how others treat us (differently?). While I think it’d be eye-opening, and I would absolutely do it if it were possible, I think there might actually be regrets afterward. I hope my wife won’t feel like she totally has the short end of the stick with her lot. ---
**Author:** ![DeepLiquid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deepliquid/32/14893_2.png) [@DeepLiquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepLiquid)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/46 "2011-03-04T00:47:33Z")
We’re both women and are the same age, the big experience would be seeing what it’s like to be short… and for her feeling what it’s like to be tall. Might be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Chapulin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Chapulin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chapulin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/47 "2011-03-05T17:21:30Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > What would happen if you and your partner (or a friend of your preferred gender) switched bodies for 30 days? > > In my case: My partner would love it, and I would hate it (I am not at all attracted to my own type). > > For those of you who are exclusively heterosexual, would you even try to have a sexual relation, or look elsewhere . . . or would you be celibate for a month? I would love it. Not only would I be a cute Mexican guy, I would get to see what it’s like to hook up with girls. ( I’m not really bi sexual but I wouldn’t mind trying it out…) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/48 "2011-03-05T17:42:27Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > There’s also [this](http://www.sgvy.com/archives/Edda1/Issue1/Page6.html): _Squish! Squish! Squishsquishsquish!_ That was the picture on the TVTropes page for a while. And it was animated. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/49 "2011-03-06T04:33:19Z")
Which 30 days? Ski season? Summer? Am I still cooking? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/50 "2011-03-06T05:04:30Z")
I’d balk at the 30 day thing, if only because while I could probably do her job, she would have a tough time doing mine. So I’d have to continue doing my work in her body. Thankfully, my clients are already acclimated to a fairly high level of weirdness in working with me. Might be a problem with the parts involving physical strength though - day before yesterday I was hanging a 50 inch LCD TV twelve feet in the air. The gender-switch weekend idea I could go for though. I’d be OK with getting fucked by her, as well as sucking my/her dick (hey, it’s OK - I’d be a girl!) But the main thing would be experiencing her amazing orgasms. Men really did get the short end of the stick in the orgasm department. This thread needs [a theme song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM). [QUOTE=Kate Bush] And if I only could, I’d make a deal with God, And I’d get him to swap our places, Be running up that road, Be running up that hill, [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Phadre2001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Phadre2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phadre2001)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/51 "2017-01-20T03:37:35Z")
I wouldn’t tell him it’s only for 30 days. I’d tell him he’s stuck unless he gives me a BJ every morning and every night. AND…since he’s the woman, he has to swallow! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/52 "2017-01-20T06:36:08Z")
Mr ruadh is gender fluid, so he’d love it. He’d also love to have my orgasms. We can both swing either way so that wouldn’t be an issue for either of us. I’d mainly enjoy (a) getting blow jobs and (b) getting to tease _him_ for being short. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/53 "2017-01-20T06:44:17Z")
Ha, my husband and I would both love to do this, and have fantasized about it many times. I often joke that I’m a gay guy in a woman’s body (I’m not particularly feminine, for one, but I do get off on male architecture, to put it daintily.) And it would be awesome if he could experience the multiple/extended orgasm experience, just as I’d love to experience the intensity of male desire, and subsuming myself into the softness of “my” woman’s body. Hope that makes sense. 🙂 On the not-so-pleasant side, I do think it would be instructive for him to have to deal with a period at least once. And for me to deal with errant testosterone effects for a time. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/54 "2017-01-20T13:04:35Z")
Thirty days would be too long. Both of us would be fired from our jobs. I can’t speak Chinese so I can’t teach her history classes or deal with the coworkers. She can’t speak English so there would go that job. It would thoroughly confuse the kids. The three days, sure why not. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/55 "2017-01-20T14:30:19Z")
It would be fun to try sex as a woman but dear Lord, I would have to teach first graders! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/56 "2017-01-20T19:11:17Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And I’d spend a whole lot of time staying at home and doing something that my partner can do, but most men can’t. 😉 😕 Laundry? 😕 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/57 "2017-01-21T22:33:37Z")
I’m gonna guess it’s an activity that most men can’t do, because the men who can do it, tend to leave fewer descendants than those who can’t. Just a WAG; I know little about **panache** and his partner, other than that their house is built upside down. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/58 "2017-01-22T00:42:36Z")
Oh my god, what I would do to have a penis for a day let alone 30! I’ve always been curious about it. And yes, I would use it. Daily. Solo and with a woman…with my husband’s approval of course. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/59 "2017-01-22T00:44:44Z")
Oh no! A zombie thread. Well I had no idea, so it doesn’t count! ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656/60 "2017-01-22T09:02:50Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > We usually do this with XKCD, but… > > Obligatory [Misfile](http://www.misfile.com/) link: [Misfile - Hell High - 7/31/24](http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=27) > > Oh, and [one perk](http://www.misfile.com/index.php?menu=omake3). updated link for “one perk”: [Misfile - Hell High - 7/31/24](http://www.misfile.com/index.php?date=2005-02-05) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies-with-your-partner/572656.md?page=4)