# Would you play "spin the bottle" as an adult?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 8, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525 "2009-12-08T22:58:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/1 "2009-12-08T22:58:23Z")
So I’m at work the other day. I’m on the elevator. It’s just me and a lady.
When we get to our floor, the door opens up and there’s a guy standing there waiting to get in. This is the short transaction that took place:
Him: “Whoa! 7 minutes in heaven?” [steps onto elevator]
Her: [laughs] “That’s a good one.”
Me: “What the heck was he talking about?”
Her: “My shirts on inside out. He was insinuating that we were making out in the elevator.”
Me: [just now realizing her shirts on inside out] “Oh, heh, that would certainly be the highlight of my day.”
Both: [laughs]
This got me to thinking about all those silly games we used to play as teenagers.
Why the heck did we ever grow out of spin the bottle? Even if I was in a committed relationship I don’t think this would bother me under the confines of the game.
_Swinging_, is a little too over the top for me personally, but STB? in the right company? Why the heck not?
So what do you guys think? (I admit, I’m feeling a little nostalgic right now.)
[spins bottle]
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/2 "2009-12-08T23:09:01Z")
If I was unattached, yeah. Not while in a relationship though, and I’d consider doing so cheating.
Although if I did play, I’m sure it’d be just like 5th grade all over again where the person who spun and landed on me refused to kiss me. So it’s probably best I don’t play at all ever.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/3 "2009-12-08T23:13:12Z")
Sure, why not? Assuming one isn’t involved, I can’t imagine the harm and it might turn out to be a world of fun. 😉
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/4 "2009-12-08T23:17:27Z")
Can and have, although I’d hate to catch something. What’s a little kissing between friends? Or strangers?
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/5 "2009-12-08T23:30:22Z")
I only played it once, and was technically an adult, though I think I was still a teen.
I’d play again, and am nearing thirty.
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### Author:  [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/6 "2009-12-09T00:12:37Z")
I’m also gonna put myself under the “only if I were unattached” caveat. Too much baggage when there’s a partner involved. Even if I was attached while playing, I’d want my partner to be present so he could know what I was doing and with whom, and I’d expect the same of him.
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/7 "2009-12-09T00:14:57Z")
Sure. It would be a hoot.
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### Author:  [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/8 "2009-12-09T00:55:56Z")
I have never played spin the bottle, so I don’t know if I’d like it or not.
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### Author:  [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/9 "2009-12-09T03:42:33Z")
No. The risk of locking lips with a woman after she just locked lips with another guy doesn’t appeal to me.
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### Author:  [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/10 "2009-12-09T04:02:43Z")
I could see it happening if I weren’t in a relationship.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/11 "2009-12-09T14:59:12Z")
I’ve never played it and if I was unattached, would jump at the chance.
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### Author:  [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/12 "2009-12-09T15:03:52Z")
The first and only time I played it was when I was 24 - I was in Edinburgh for a summer program and a bunch of us were bored and drunk.
That was quite the debauched summer. :: nostalgia ::
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### Author:  [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/13 "2009-12-09T19:25:17Z")
Never played, but if I’m single, absolutely.
I’m almost surprised my group of friends hasn’t drunkenly gone there. We’ve always stopped at Truth or Dare, though. Less kissing, more nudity.
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### Author:  [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/14 "2009-12-09T19:30:57Z")
Thanks, this just became an event at my Christmas party but it is a singles only game.
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### Author:  [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/15 "2009-12-09T19:33:16Z")
I have!
I would still, if I was single.
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### Author:  [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/16 "2009-12-09T19:52:35Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#):
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> I’d hate to catch something.
This would stop me from playing it, I think. Of course if it was summer time (not flu season) and I was single, a wee tipsy, and surrounded by 8 gorgeous swedish chicks… maybe then.
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### Author:  [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/17 "2009-12-09T20:01:57Z")
What’s “adult”? I’m 22 and I think I’d play again, were I single.
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/18 "2009-12-09T20:02:05Z")
If I weren’t married, sure. I’d play it with my wife but it’s not the same thrill. A different thrill, I hasten to add, in case she reads this.
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### Author:  [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/19 "2009-12-09T20:04:37Z")
Did you ask her why her shirt was on inside-out?
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-play-spin-the-bottle-as-an-adult/520525/20 "2009-12-09T20:22:17Z")
You should have exchanged guilty looks and awkwardly changed the subject.
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