# Would you give up sex forever if it meant you could be a Jedi? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 11, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452 "2012-10-11T19:55:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/21 "2012-10-12T02:42:37Z")
I would agree to abstain from sex with Yoda to be a Jedi. Otherwise, no. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/22 "2012-10-12T03:21:29Z")
Just how important is sex to you lot anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/23 "2012-10-12T03:22:41Z")
More important than woo religion. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/24 "2012-10-12T03:54:31Z")
What? You mean that Jedi are _not actually_ allowed to seduce pretty Senators?:D;) Will not stop me. I’ll just ask for assignments far from Courasunt. ---
**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 12, 2012, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/25 "2012-10-12T06:28:21Z")
Actually, Jedi don’t have to be celibate – straight from the [horse’s mouth](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1989505.stm): > [@](#): > > But Lucas revealed that despite their monastic regime, Jedi were permitted to have sex. > > “Jedi Knights aren’t celibate - the thing that is forbidden is attachments - and possessive relationships.” I’m guessing they can do the “friends with benefits” thing. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/26 "2012-10-12T07:09:49Z")
Am I going to be able to shoot lighting bolts out of my fingers? 'cause, that would make a difference. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/27 "2012-10-12T07:13:54Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Am I going to be able to shoot lighting bolts out of my fingers? > > 'cause, that would make a difference. Really? 'Cause, what’s the point of being able to wave my hand in front of somebody’s face and getting them to do anything except fuck me? ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/28 "2012-10-12T09:41:03Z")
It’s enough for me to know that Jedi exist, I have no wish to become one myself. ---
**Author:** ![Rubixcube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Rubixcube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubixcube)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/29 "2012-10-12T14:01:45Z")
The Jedi are definitely not celibate. The entire Jedi philosophy is based around separating yourself from your emotions, allowing your intuition to guide you rather than using your abilities to bend things to your will. Emotions lead to the dark side. So generally relationships and marriages are forbidden, there are exceptions like Ki-Adi-Mundi whose species low male birthrate allowed him to take wives, but he still has to remain unattached. Also the force is not purely genetic. There is a genetic component, force users often beget force users. But that isn’t actually a requirement, that’s why newborns are tested in so many places. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/30 "2012-10-12T14:04:23Z")
Is the Force a recessive trait? Cause it’s not impossible that non-Force users could have Force using children. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/31 "2012-10-12T15:53:47Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Is there a special school for that? Because now I know what I want to be when I grow up. The Buckaroo Banzai Academy of Utter Awesomeness. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/32 "2012-10-12T15:57:01Z")
In the SW:TOR mmo, one of your early quests as a low-level Jedi is to investigate two Jedi and determine whether they are lovers. If they are, then you have to tell on them to gain Light side points. If you fail to turn them in, you get Dark Side points. I was never, EVER, a total Light-side Jedi 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/33 "2012-10-12T16:22:58Z")
Can I still masturbate? And what good is being a Jedi if you can’t use it to get chicks?! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/34 "2012-10-12T16:43:24Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Can I still masturbate? > > And what good is being a Jedi if you can’t use it to get chicks?! It’s like being a paladin. being a paladin means you have immunity to disease. But if you use that immunity to pick up hot dirty chicks (or guys) you lose it…unfair! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/35 "2012-10-12T17:11:45Z")
There are a ton of things I’d give up sex for. I can now move shit with my mind? Fuck yeah. And then I’d get kicked out for being irreverent and sarcastic. Screw you Yoda, I’ll start my own school! The Don’t Be a Dick School! ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/36 "2012-10-12T17:12:37Z")
I’m pretty sure thinking this much about Jedi stuff is highly correlated with not getting laid already. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/37 "2012-10-12T17:26:43Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I’m pretty sure thinking this much about Jedi stuff is highly correlated with not getting laid already. Jack Batty said it earlier and funnier than you did. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/38 "2012-10-12T17:32:04Z")
What’s a Jedi? That’s a ‘Star Wars’ thing right? ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/39 "2012-10-12T19:04:24Z")
I’m a Taurus, I like sex, food, sleep and money. There is nothing else to want. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452/40 "2012-10-12T19:41:52Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > It’s like being a paladin. being a paladin means you have immunity to disease. But if you use that immunity to pick up hot dirty chicks (or guys) you lose it…unfair! 🙂 I so want to roll d20s with you! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-up-sex-forever-if-it-meant-you-could-be-a-jedi/637452.md?page=3)