# Vaginally-challenged **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 8, 2001, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049 "2001-10-08T04:29:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/21 "2001-10-10T00:00:14Z")
Care to describe for the intercourse-challenged? ---
**Author:** ![acconav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@acconav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acconav)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/22 "2001-10-10T01:20:12Z")
wait, lemme get this straight… the woman is supposed to get _pleasure_ out of sex? but how? the whole thing only lasts 3 minutes (well, 5 on a good day) maybe i should review my technique ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/23 "2001-10-10T01:25:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by acconav \* > **wait, lemme get this straight… the woman is supposed to get _pleasure_ out of sex? but how? the whole thing only lasts 3 minutes (well, 5 on a good day)** If the gal knows what she’s doing, that is time enough. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![acconav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@acconav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acconav)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/24 "2001-10-10T01:33:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by acconav \* > > **wait, lemme get this straight… the woman is supposed to get _pleasure_ out of sex? but how? the whole thing only lasts 3 minutes (well, 5 on a good day)** > > If the gal knows what she’s doing, that is time enough. 😃 \*\* **Geobabe** , you have just officially become my favorite person on this board 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/25 "2001-10-10T01:41:45Z")
God, I love bein’ me… ---
**Author:** ![toshirodragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e68b1a/32.png) [@toshirodragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toshirodragon)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/26 "2001-10-10T02:06:13Z")
Well lets see… since I usually end up hyperventilating and sucking on my inhaler you prolly don’t want my opinion on what sex feels like… but I wouldn’t give it up for ANYTHING! Nothing on earth feels as great except maybe a hug from my son 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chickenhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Chickenhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickenhead)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/27 "2001-10-10T02:39:41Z")
And then a guy who wandered in looked at Bette and that man and said, “But when you take a gallon of mustard and pour it on elk, which feels better, the Pope, Michael Jackson, or a piece of shellfish?” ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/28 "2001-10-10T02:48:11Z")
> [@](#): > > A word of advice… stay away from the pineapples. That made me laugh out loud. I like this poster already. 🙂 Zette PS- why not search a sex related board for info like in the OP?? ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/29 "2001-10-10T03:35:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by acconav \* > \*\*wait, lemme get this straight… the woman is supposed to get _pleasure_ out of sex? but how? the whole thing only lasts 3 minutes (well, 5 on a good day) > > maybe i should review my technique \*\* 3-5 minutes?!?! Jesus, I think my _shortest_ time has been like 10. My boy has stamina, I tell ya. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/30 "2001-10-10T03:43:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ladyfoxfyre \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by acconav \* > > \*\*wait, lemme get this straight… the woman is supposed to get _pleasure_ out of sex? but how? the whole thing only lasts 3 minutes (well, 5 on a good day) > > > > maybe i should review my technique \*\* > > 3-5 minutes?!?! > > Jesus, I think my _shortest_ time has been like 10. > > My boy has stamina, I tell ya. \*\* I believe **acconav** ’s post was what is sometimes known in SDMB parlance as a “joke”. ---
**Author:** ![Yondan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/278dde/32.png) [@Yondan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yondan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/31 "2001-10-10T04:13:43Z")
What does it mean that this thread has been hit over 11 hundred times, but only thirty people have actually contributed? (Yondan says in a contribution which actually adds nothing of substance to the thread, but cannot bear the thought of visiting without saying something among such wonderful, bizarre, astonishing folks.) ---
**Author:** ![acconav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@acconav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acconav)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/32 "2001-10-10T04:25:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > \*\*I believe **acconav** ’s post was what is sometimes known in SDMB parlance as a “joke”. \*\* normally i’d let this go as an implied joke, but what with the nature of said joke, allow me to clarify… **Yes i was kidding! Please, you have to believe me! I’m not bad in bed, i swear i swear!** ---
**Author:** ![spacedmanspliff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spacedmanspliff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spacedmanspliff)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/33 "2001-10-10T11:26:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > \*\*God, I love bein’ me… \*\* And I love you bein’ you 😉 ---
**Author:** ![spacedmanspliff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spacedmanspliff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spacedmanspliff)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/34 "2001-10-10T11:33:32Z")
now if only someone would stop beating around the **bush** and give a nice descriptive answer to the post 😉 ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/35 "2001-10-10T12:49:00Z")
To quote Richard Sheridan - “We should only spoil it by trying to explain it.” Some things in life defy description. ---
**Author:** ![Yondan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/278dde/32.png) [@Yondan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yondan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/36 "2001-10-10T13:08:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by plnnr \* > \*\*To quote Richard Sheridan - “We should only spoil it by trying to explain it.” > > Some things in life defy description. \*\* A dangerous flag to wave in a site dedicated to eradicating ignorance, plnnr. While I do not disagree with you on depth of the challenge, it seems to me that provides all the more reason to plumb the secret places yet unknown to us, to burrow and swim deeply, coming up to gasp for air only at the last extremity, then to dive again and again, refusing to give up, to give in, until at last, we… what was the question again? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/37 "2001-10-10T13:26:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spacedmanspliff \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > > \*\*God, I love bein’ me… \*\* > > And I love you bein’ you 😉 \*\* There’s a “love be in you” line here somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/38 "2001-10-10T13:27:32Z")
Would a rose smell any sweeter if you knew the chemical make-up of the fragrance and why that particular molecule, when picked up by the olfactory cells lining the epithelium in your nose, triggered a nerve impulse to travel up into your brain and set off a particular set of neurons that further triggered your memory of smelling roses in the past, thereby making you say “Wow, this rose smells good.” Would a piece of chocolate cake taste any better if you were able to describe, in the most minute detail, why it tasted good in the first place? No, my friends, some mysteries are better left unsolved. Its enough to know the feeling - you don’t have to describe it. ---
**Author:** ![Yondan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/278dde/32.png) [@Yondan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yondan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/39 "2001-10-10T16:30:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by plnnr \* > \*\*No, my friends, some mysteries are better left unsolved. Its enough to know the feeling - you don’t have to describe it. \*\* But then what is the point of art, of literature, poetry music, and dance, if they are not at once both expression and exploration of the ineffable? Describing one of life’s greatest pleasures does not need to reduce it to the mundane, but instead may become yet another way of reveling in its glory. While I cannot describe the feelings intercourse engenders in women, one of the best descriptions I have ever read about what it feels like for a man was written by Leslie Marmon Silko in the novel Ceremony. In her writing, Silko captures not only the sensual, physical qualities of the experience, but she also is able to evoke the profoundly spiritual and joyful nature of lovemaking. In thinking about this thread, I have come to appreciate Silko’s descriptive celebration anew, not only for its vivid accuracy, but for the fact that she was able to bridge this seeingly impossible gap and decribe it from the MAN’S view. I am thinking now about what she left _unsaid_ that I am now free to contemplate. I know that’s a bit vague, but later I will get the relevant quote, so you can see what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![SpaceGhostofArrakis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@SpaceGhostofArrakis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceGhostofArrakis)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049/40 "2001-10-10T16:44:31Z")
> [@](#): > > This has been on my mind for the last few days. Can the women dopers describe what intercourse feels like? If possible can you describe it in a way that the vaginally-challenged can understand? Very good, \*\* aggiej\*\*, you’re makiing us other aggies fill proud to have you with us! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginally-challenged/86049.md?page=3)