# The Stargate stones. Some one had sex with your body. Do you care? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046 "2011-07-14T19:23:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/1 "2011-07-14T19:23:34Z")
For those not familiar with the SG stones: It’s basically these stones that allow the users to trade bodies with each other. In the series, it’s usually done over great distances. As to the thread: No worries of STDs or getting pregnant. Myself: I don’t think I’d care. Especially if it meant helping a loving couple reunite for a brief time. Hell, as long as there is no worries of STDs, I don’t think I’d care even if it were for a meaningless romp. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/2 "2011-07-14T19:35:04Z")
I duuno. I’m a hetero-guy. If I woke up with my rectum cracked and bleeding, I’m gunna be pretty grumpy for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/3 "2011-07-14T19:39:15Z")
Point of order: anal sex doesn’t have to involve “cracking and bleeding” at all. I mean, hasn’t anyone in your universe heard of lube? ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/4 "2011-07-14T19:52:05Z")
If there were no consequences to me, I wouldn’t care. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/5 "2011-07-14T19:54:20Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Point of order: anal sex doesn’t have to involve “cracking and bleeding” at all. I mean, hasn’t anyone in your universe heard of lube? Sure. Interestingly, not all choose to use it, though. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/6 "2011-07-14T20:12:43Z")
When I was a virgin, I would have cared. I still think it’d be bad form to take a virgin’s body and use it for sex. Now, no. ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/7 "2011-07-14T20:23:35Z")
> [@bup](#): > > When I was a virgin, I would have cared. I still think it’d be bad form to take a virgin’s body and use it for sex. > > Now, no. Interesting idea there though. If a virgin uses the stones and the person occupying the virgin’s body has sex, is the virgin still a virgin? Sure, the body has been used for sex, but the person has not had the experience or even made the decision to have sex. Yet, in many cases sex and virginity are tied to the physical body. The rape of an unconscious person is still rape, even though they are unaware of the activity. Seems to me that sexual activity would have to be discussed before using the stones. As for the OP’s question, as long as std’s and pregnancy issues are off the table, I could care less. So long as they shower afterwards. One of the more interesting but unexplored ideas of Stargate Universe was the need for intimacy by people separated from loved ones, and how the stones and different bodies changed that. ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/8 "2011-07-14T21:01:43Z")
Yes I’d care! How dare someone use my carcass in such a manner?! ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/9 "2011-07-15T16:27:53Z")
One question I have is, does everybody else know that it’s not really me in my body at the time? Returning to deal with somebody (or somebodies) who is under the impression we’ve had sex whan we actually haven’t could be… complicated. And, I wouldn’t want somebody doing my wife while she thinks it’s me. So, I guess you can go nuts as long as you stick to two rules: Full disclosure and my wife is off limits. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/10 "2011-07-15T16:35:23Z")
Was it good for them? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/11 "2011-07-15T16:43:40Z")
The hickeys all over your body might be hard to explain. 😉 Especially since you don’t know how they got there. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/12 "2011-07-15T16:50:10Z")
Hmm. That would finally explain Jimmy Buffet’s brand new tattoo, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/13 "2011-07-15T17:13:45Z")
Yes I care. It’s MY body, I get to decide what goes where. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/14 "2011-07-15T17:30:21Z")
Doesn’t have to be sex, either. Let’s say someone on the ship wanted to swap with me here on Earth, and take my body surfing, or rock climbing. While I’m stuck on the ship dealing with the foul odors, the doppleganger breaks a leg. Thanks, Ace. Want to wreck my car, too, while we’re at it? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/15 "2011-07-15T18:14:46Z")
I liked _Farscape_’s treatment of this. Aeryn Sun: “It’s okay, it’s okay, you know. You were in my shoes, I was in your pants…” ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/16 "2011-07-15T18:44:34Z")
Let them, its more than I’m doing with it… _grumbles_ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/17 "2011-07-15T18:48:08Z")
For those of you who say you wouldn’t care, does that mean you wouldn’t care if (in the real world) someone did something sexually to your body while you were unconscious? If not, what’s the difference? ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/18 "2011-07-15T18:57:14Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > For those of you who say you wouldn’t care, does that mean you wouldn’t care if (in the real world) someone did something sexually to your body while you were unconscious? If not, what’s the difference? Consent. If, for some reason, I gave permission that they could do that sort of thing while I was unconscious, it would be the same thing. I thought the unnamed personnel who donated their corpus to someone across the universe so they could spend some time with their loved one were among the unsung heroes of Stargate Command. Of course, it came with the perk of a short trip to the other side of creation, so I, for one, wouldn’t need much to talk me into it. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/19 "2011-07-16T19:10:53Z")
Apparently one of the worst things for victims of burgularies is the “dirty” feeling of knowing someone has been through your stuff. I think that for the S.G "messengers ", the psychological problems would be a whole lot worse . I think that the mere knowledge that someone else has been inside your body would feel creepy and distasteful, let alone if they’d used it for sex. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046/20 "2011-07-17T02:21:40Z")
> [@Saltire](#): > > I thought the unnamed personnel who donated their corpus to someone across the universe so they could spend some time with their loved one were among the unsung heroes of Stargate Command. I have a problem with the SGC recruiting personnel to be camp followers. It’s another step away from the tone of the series we loved. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stargate-stones-some-one-had-sex-with-your-body-do-you-care/589046.md?page=2)