# Switching Bodies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2020, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies/849186 "2020-03-10T04:03:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [April 26, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies/849186/41 "2020-04-26T00:16:02Z")
No one I know now. I would wait until I was very old and, say, in the end stages of cancer or some other debilitating, fatal disease. Then I would swap with the prettiest of nurses, after which I would become a lifelong lesbian. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies/849186/42 "2020-04-26T00:46:07Z")
I wonder what it would be like to eat a meal while in the body of someone with opposite food likes and dislikes. Not curious enough to go through the bother though, even if it’s a super easy snap of the fingers type of deal. [Here’s the cracked’ take on body switching.](https://www.cracked.com/video_18610_when-body-switching-movies-collide.html) ---
**Author:** ![K2500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@K2500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K2500)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies/849186/43 "2020-04-26T01:21:45Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > I wonder what it would be like to eat a meal while in the body of someone with opposite food likes and dislikes. > Not curious enough to go through the bother though, even if it’s a super easy snap of the fingers type of deal. > [Here’s the cracked’ take on body switching.](https://www.cracked.com/video_18610_when-body-switching-movies-collide.html) To discover that your favorite food tastes disgusting when you eat it with someone else’s mouth? Horrifying, and maybe a little enlightening. Maybe they see colors different though, that would be a trip. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies/849186/44 "2020-04-26T05:26:58Z")
> [@K2500](#): > > To discover that your favorite food tastes disgusting when you eat it with someone else’s mouth? Horrifying, and maybe a little enlightening. Maybe they see colors different though, that would be a trip. I don’t know about the rest of you, but my personal preferences are going over with me. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies/849186/45 "2020-04-26T21:22:23Z")
> [@txjim](#): > > There was a story years ago in either _Analog_ or _Asimov’s Science Fiction_ magazine that featured this subject. I believe it started with “The first thing men do when switching to a woman’s body is feel their breasts. The first thing women do when switching to a man’s body is pee standing up.” Was it a Jack Chalker story? IIRC, he was obsessed with that. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies/849186/46 "2020-04-27T16:50:05Z")
My mother has a chronic, intractable migraine; COPD; sleep apnea; and a host of other ailments. She’s not terminally ill, however. If I could be assured that she wasn’t going to die anytime soon, I’d trade bodies with her for a week to give her a body without pain for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![ASGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@ASGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies/849186/47 "2020-04-28T02:31:34Z")
First off, good for you **ekedolphin**. Parents are important. You provide what you can. As for me, I’d like to change with my Wednesday Scrabble partner. A decent and honest fellow, but a complete country rube. Has lived in the same county for his entire life, and was brought up on manners and customs that are strange to me. I would enjoy _one_ week in his shoes, just to confirm or deny that his “country rube-ness” is genuine or a put-on. (Sadly, I wager genuine.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-bodies/849186.md?page=2)