# What does 'sex' feel like? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-sex-feel-like/150044 "2003-01-21T19:58:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-sex-feel-like/150044/81 "2003-01-23T05:31:31Z")
Though a little short on the physical description, one of the best quotes on the _why_ of sex was uttered by “Andrew” (Robin Williams) in **Bicentennial Man**. When asked why he wants to become more human he says that, among other reasons, he would like to experience sex, because he understood – “That you can lose yourself. Everything. All boundaries. All time. That two bodies can become so mixed up, that you don’t know who’s who or what’s what. And just when the sweet confusion is so intense you think you’re gonna die… you kind of do. Leaving you alone in your separate body, but the one you love is still there. That’s a miracle. You can go to heaven and come back alive. You can go back anytime you want with the one you love.” DD ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-sex-feel-like/150044/82 "2003-01-23T05:50:49Z")
Thanks to Pablito, I now have a wide-on. ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-sex-feel-like/150044/83 "2003-01-25T19:00:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Urban Ranger \* > **What does it feel like to be full?** Out of context, but yep, that’s part of it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-sex-feel-like/150044/84 "2003-01-25T19:32:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pablito \* > \*\*physically: it’s having both bodies touching, skin-to-skin contact, and feeling that closeness, and intimacy, and having your penis in a special place that you just can’t belived feels so good, and having an powerful urge to start pumping your hips andpushing as hard as you can into that warm spot, thying to get deeper and closer and become one with this person you care deeply about for a least a profound moment in which you can’t tell where she stops and you start and your nerves are tingliing and you feel that you can feel her nerves tingling and stimulating and holding on to you and wanting you to move back and forth to increase that great feeling in your genitals and make things even more hot, frantic, urgent, and uncontrollable. \*\* Sex feels like a run on sentence. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-sex-feel-like/150044/85 "2003-01-25T22:18:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBill \* > \*\*Lemme tell you in about 45 minutes, when the memory is fresh. \*\* Didn’t you miss a decimal point there somewhere **UncleBill**? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-sex-feel-like/150044/86 "2003-01-26T01:51:36Z")
What does sex feel like? It starts nicely enough, with kissing, removal of clothes, etc. It then progresses to rapid repetitive movements in and out of another person’s slimy bits, while your capacity for rational thought withers away and you become an instinct-driven, rutting animal, thinking of nothing but the few seconds of mind-breaking pleasure soon to come, and winding up with an aching back and a sticky mess to clean up. I heartily disrecommend it. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-sex-feel-like/150044/87 "2003-01-26T09:26:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yBeayf \* > \*\*What does sex feel like? > > It starts nicely enough, with kissing, removal of clothes, etc. It then progresses to rapid repetitive movements in and out of another person’s slimy bits, while your capacity for rational thought withers away and you become an instinct-driven, rutting animal, thinking of nothing but the few seconds of mind-breaking pleasure soon to come, and winding up with an aching back and a sticky mess to clean up. > > I heartily disrecommend it. \*\* Wow. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner for poster child of “fucked up”. ---
**Author:** ![Reuben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@Reuben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reuben)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-sex-feel-like/150044/88 "2003-01-26T14:51:48Z")
Or possibly the best description ever! **yBeayf** should win some kind of prize. I like that even more than Johnny Rotten’s famous “two minutes of squelching”. I remember reading some comedian describing it to his inquisitive son as “a bit like giving someone a kicking with your hips”. HTH, but I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-sex-feel-like/150044/89 "2003-01-26T16:16:07Z")
Sex feels like climbing a mountain. You work hard to get to the top, but once your there, it’s all down hill from that point on. All you have to do when you get to the bottom is grab the towel and run like hell. Sex with no orgasm, is like a hamster on an exercise wheel. He’s working hard doing the same movement over and over and over again, but the poor little fellow ain’t going nowhere! ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-sex-feel-like/150044/90 "2003-01-26T16:38:41Z")
Sex for a guy is like having your finger on the trigger of a gun. You wonder if you should shoot it & risk 18 years of child support payments 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-sex-feel-like/150044.md?page=4)