# What would it take you to kiss the same gender? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 21, 2016, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735 "2016-03-21T06:29:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lowdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/21 "2016-03-21T14:47:50Z")
Lips only $50. With tongue, maybe $200. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/22 "2016-03-21T14:52:34Z")
No way. Not for anything or everything in the world. But I would decline politely with a simple “No, thanks.” ---
**Author:** ![Lowdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/23 "2016-03-21T15:06:11Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > No way. Not for anything or everything in the world. But I would decline politely with a simple “No, thanks.” That’s interesting! (Seriously.) Does it just skeeve you out or what? For me, it’s just like “Whatever. You’re doing a scavenger hunt and need this. I’m game, but need something in exchange.” It’s just a stupid thing. It’s not like I’m going to be questioning my sexuality or blowing a dude in the alley thirty minutes later. I’m pretty firm on being straight. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/24 "2016-03-21T15:14:20Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > No way. Not for anything or everything in the world. But I would decline politely with a simple “No, thanks.” Really. Not for $1B? $10B? $100B? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/25 "2016-03-21T15:25:28Z")
He’d have to be freshly shaven, look like a young Cary Grant, and smell like 4711. No tongue and no handsiness. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/26 "2016-03-21T15:32:08Z")
Depends on what they look like. If they’re cute, no problem. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/27 "2016-03-21T15:32:20Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Really. Not for $1B? $10B? $100B? I guess I would for $500,000.00. But it’s unlikely that someone would offer that kind of green. I’d definitely want the money up front, though. As an aside, I was hanging out with a bunch of guys I know, all in our 50s or 60s. One guy was talking about some pretty personal, painful stuff that I could relate to. I spontaneously put an arm around him and patted his shoulder. Not a hug, really, sort of a half-hug. He said, “Man, that was weird!!” I apologized, explaining that I just wanted him to know that I really understood what he was talking about. He replied, “No, the strange thing is that I’m as hard as a rock!! Anyone wanna feel? I could drive nails with this!” My friends are a bunch of assholes. That’s why I love them. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/28 "2016-03-21T15:51:13Z")
I wouldn’t do it for a stranger in a bar, but for a friend on a dare, sure, why not? Jeff Daniels kissed Stephen Colbert on \*The Late Show \*last week, presumably just for the laugh (although maybe like Helen Mirren, he’d secretly been waiting years to do that.) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/29 "2016-03-21T15:59:35Z")
I’ve never kissed another guy, but I danced with one at a party because. . . well, you had to be there. Two of my daughter’s friends made out at a bar for drinks. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/30 "2016-03-21T16:03:58Z")
A peck kiss… sure I’d do it just to help a sistah out. A tongue kiss… probably not going to happen. Kissing like that would be close to the last thing I’d do with a guy. > [@kayaker](#): > > \ > > As an aside, I was hanging out with a bunch of guys I know, all in our 50s or 60s. One guy was talking about some pretty personal, painful stuff that I could relate to. I spontaneously put an arm around him and patted his shoulder. Not a hug, really, sort of a half-hug. > > He said, “Man, that was weird!!” > > I apologized, explaining that I just wanted him to know that I really understood what he was talking about. > > He replied, “No, the strange thing is that I’m as hard as a rock!! Anyone wanna feel? I could drive nails with this!” > > My friends are a bunch of assholes. That’s why I love them. Okay, that cracked me up, Kayaker! I’m going to use that line, next chance I get. ---
**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 21, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/31 "2016-03-21T16:13:18Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > No way. Not for anything or everything in the world. But I would decline politely with a simple “No, thanks.” “Methinks . . . .” I’ve known guys who’d have any and all kinds of sex with other guys, but absolutely refused to kiss on the lips, because that would mean they were gay. Denial can be a strange thing. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/32 "2016-03-21T16:23:00Z")
Random guy? No way. A good friend? I could if it was an interesting thing like the OP (assuming it’s for real and not just for kicks). Closed lips, no pics. Tongue and pics? No way. If I were single I’d go for what **Robot Arm** said “I’ll kiss him and then you”. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/33 "2016-03-21T16:34:28Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Really. Not for $1B? $10B? $100B? No means no. Not everybody is “just haggling price” for the art of the deal. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/34 "2016-03-21T16:43:16Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > If I were single I’d go for what **Robot Arm** said “I’ll kiss him and then you”. Oh, great; I’ve got the perfect reply, now I just need someone to ask the question. ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/35 "2016-03-21T17:06:01Z")
Zero interest in guys here. I probably wouldn’t do it if it was a stranger asking me to kiss a strange guy, just feels too weird and disconnected. Definitely wouldn’t do it if I was at some middle-of-nowhere country bar or somewhere else that it might provoke violence. If it was people I hang out with in the kind of place I usually go, I’ve done it before because someone I knew asked and it amused everyone. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/36 "2016-03-22T01:49:45Z")
I can’t imagine a situation in which I’d ever be compelled to kiss another woman except maybe on the cheek or forehead. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/37 "2016-03-22T01:59:56Z")
I could probably be bribed with tulips. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/38 "2016-03-22T03:02:43Z")
Sure, why not? I once almost did it just to get laid (by my boyfriend at the time, who had a thing for girl-on-girl action), but the moment passed and the ex was willing anyway. But especially on a dare like the OP mentions. Sounds fun. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/39 "2016-03-22T03:08:22Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > If I were single I’d go for what **Robot Arm** said “I’ll kiss him and then you”. In college, a game of spin the bottle, rules were the gender of the person it pointed at didn’t matter, kiss away. Worth it. ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735/40 "2016-03-22T03:28:35Z")
Not much. Haven’t you had to kiss peculiar elderly relatives of unclear gender whose names you cannot remember? Or is that just my family? No tongue though, just a quick kiss. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-you-to-kiss-the-same-gender/749735.md?page=3)