# What's next recreational sex? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 20, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-next-recreational-sex/772574 "2016-11-20T19:55:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-next-recreational-sex/772574/61 "2016-11-21T22:07:40Z")
I think he’s just worried that everyone else in the world is having too much of a good time and that they should rein it in a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-next-recreational-sex/772574/62 "2016-11-22T01:13:21Z")
> [@CatandMouse](#): > > Who auctions animals off for an hour, day, or night? I used to but it was such a pain that we switched business models to flat pricing. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-next-recreational-sex/772574/63 "2016-11-22T19:39:32Z")
So - it will no longer be known as a pimpmobile, but a recreational vehicle instead? ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-next-recreational-sex/772574/64 "2016-11-22T21:06:52Z")
Should we just bring back the [wife selling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_selling_(English_custom))? ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-next-recreational-sex/772574/65 "2016-11-23T16:20:41Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Should we just bring back the [wife selling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_selling_(English_custom))? We’d have to update it a bit. Spouse leasing, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-next-recreational-sex/772574/66 "2016-11-23T16:23:17Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > We’d have to update it a bit. Spouse leasing, perhaps? Nope, time-shares all the way. 1/4 of the weeks are unavailable from the get-go, and the others are either prohibitively expensive or in the dead of the off-season. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-next-recreational-sex/772574/67 "2016-11-23T16:55:39Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Should we just bring back the [wife selling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_selling_(English_custom))? ABSOLUTELYaNO RETURNS ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-next-recreational-sex/772574/68 "2016-11-23T17:26:12Z")
one careful owner hard to start on cold mornings but otherwise a nice little runner sad to see it go only selling because I’m trading up for a newer model and need room in the garage will consider part exchange no time wasters ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-next-recreational-sex/772574/69 "2016-11-23T18:50:46Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > We’d have to update it a bit. Spouse leasing, perhaps? Be sure to read the fine print - the penalties for exceeding the mileage limits can be brutal. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-next-recreational-sex/772574/70 "2016-11-24T07:19:21Z")
> [@Mr\_Quatro](#): > > A future of safe sex, a future of gratification of the senses. Yes, that would be _wonderful._ And the sooner we’re there, the better. > [@](#): > > Did you know that it is now legal to smoke pot in a bar in Colorado? Really? What’s the name of this bar, and where is it? I’d love to go there the next time I’m passing through Colorado. > [@](#): > > I think society is aiming to peak itself out. I think the dead hand of oppressive moralism might be starting to release its grip a little. And that would be a\* good \*thing. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-next-recreational-sex/772574/71 "2016-11-24T14:55:46Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I think Recreational Sex might be an Olympic sport by the time of the Tokyo 2020 games. …talk about “carrying a Torch” for someone… :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-next-recreational-sex/772574/72 "2016-11-24T20:10:06Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > He appears to believe that sex was illegal, has moved to medicinal, and now is in danger of becoming recreational. I think. Like marijuana. > > If he is addressing NSA hook-ups becoming commonplace, in the absence of a social relationship, I feel he is a little late to be concerned. If he feels that this involves an auction of some sort, I am just completely lost. The OP’s tortured prose doesn’t help explain his tortured logic based on his fact-free understanding of the current world. He’s made a few other posts in other threads that indicate to me some sort of religious fundamentalist all-sex-is-evil the-world-is-going-right-to-Hell-before-our-eyes POV and this seems to be more of that. But I think you’ve got most of his ideas correct. The way I read it he says we’re on the way to recreational NSA sex being totally OK all across society with no tutt-tutting. not even for schoolmarms and other typical defenders of the public morals. Saying “tennis anyone?” at the club or saying “Who wants to fuck?” will be equally normal unremarkable public social behavior. His next step down the slippery slope to perdition is that all the poor people will have to (want to?) sell themselves as sex toys as a way to make enough money to live. They’ll be \*de facto \*slaves; slaves to their own need for income and society’s insatiable and ever growing demand for more and more sex of wilder and wilder nature. Ending eventually in a Sexual Singularity® when everybody goes directly up their own well-worn poopchute, evaporates in a black hole-like “poof” and the planet is finally cleansed of all humans and all human sin. (I made this last part up, but it fits right into his line of “logic”.) The part that makes the least sense to me (admittedly a hard contest to judge) is the idea that somehow the great increase in supply of cost-free sex when everybody is doing it for fun will somehow lead to a shortage of cost-free sex which will create great demand for paid-for-sex. If anything, widespread cost-free sex ought to drive prostitution out of business. And be hard on the porn industry’s profits as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-next-recreational-sex/772574.md?page=3)