# Would you prefer a life of loveless sex or a life of sexless love? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 27, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-a-life-of-loveless-sex-or-a-life-of-sexless-love/491040 "2009-03-27T21:52:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-a-life-of-loveless-sex-or-a-life-of-sexless-love/491040/41 "2009-03-29T23:33:29Z")
You ask a shit ton of questions (hundreds of them, literally), forgive me if I’m mistaken, but it seems like something more purpose-driven than idle curiosity. Are you using some of these answers for something somewhere? Just curious. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-a-life-of-loveless-sex-or-a-life-of-sexless-love/491040/42 "2009-03-29T23:35:19Z")
Wasn’t this pretty much the premise of [Good Luck Chuck](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452625/)? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-a-life-of-loveless-sex-or-a-life-of-sexless-love/491040/43 "2009-03-29T23:36:42Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > You ask a shit ton of questions (hundreds of them, literally), forgive me if I’m mistaken, but it seems like something more purpose-driven than idle curiosity. Are you using some of these answers for something somewhere? Just curious. No, I simply thirst for all knowledge. I like to start threads and see what happens. If you’d like I can go back to threatening the world. No, scratch that. I’m tired of the Evil Emperor thing. The mere thought of threatening people with satellite-mounted wave motion guns makes me weary. When I ask questions with a particular purpose in mind–say, for a story I’m writing–I try to always say so in the first line of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-a-life-of-loveless-sex-or-a-life-of-sexless-love/491040/44 "2009-03-29T23:41:02Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Wasn’t this pretty much the premise of [Good Luck Chuck](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452625/)? Didn’t see it. I am apparently the one straight man in America wo doesn’t find Jessica Alba attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-a-life-of-loveless-sex-or-a-life-of-sexless-love/491040/45 "2009-03-29T23:44:55Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > You ask a shit ton of questions (hundreds of them, literally), forgive me if I’m mistaken, but it seems like something more purpose-driven than idle curiosity. Are you using some of these answers for something somewhere? Just curious. It’s **Skald** , man. This is what he does. He also asks questions about world conquest, comic books, zombies, and so on. It’s almost always entertaining, too. Just be glad he no longer has the bees at his disposal. For myself - in all candor, I hope I’d choose the gazelle. The sexless love option sounds like brainwashing, and the loveless sex option sounds like an opportunity to become history’s greatest serial rapist. What else would you call someone who has tons of sex with people who simply cannot say no? I suppose the loveless sex option is the somewhat better of the two - all I’d need to do is avoid any sexual attraction to anyone, ever, and the “irresistible attraction” spell would never be triggered. That might last all of a day. Realistically, the gazelle option sounds too scary for my nerve to handle. I’d go for the sexless love - I’m lonelier than I am horny. (Though my inner bastard _would_ be tempted to go for the loveless sex option, and test-drive it on Aphrodite herself.) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-a-life-of-loveless-sex-or-a-life-of-sexless-love/491040/46 "2009-03-29T23:53:28Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > For myself - in all candor, I hope I’d choose the gazelle. Well, I would be inclined to choose the gazelle option if I were single. But I hve a wife now, and I’m not about to let her get eaten by a great cat. > [@](#): > > The sexless love option sounds like brainwashing, and the loveless sex option sounds like an opportunity to become history’s greatest serial rapist. I was wonderig if someone was going to bring up the rapist aspect. > [@](#): > > (Though my inner bastard _would_ be tempted to go for the loveless sex option, and test-drive it on Aphrodite herself.) Remember, she phrased it so that it only applies to mortals. I mean, she and Freyja want to fuck with your HEAD, not your nethers. As she is who is is, she’d have already fucked you if that was what she wanted. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-a-life-of-loveless-sex-or-a-life-of-sexless-love/491040/47 "2009-03-30T01:33:23Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Onn the other hand, maybe Aphrodite puts a miraculous force field around both sets of genitalia, triggered by horniness, but nevertheless increases your bond with the other so that he or she stays with you despite the surety that neither of you can ever have an orgasm in the other’s presence. Don’t nobody go meesin with my GENITALIA, to enforce the sexless love theng. Hell, I might not even be able to piss normally if the spell is screwed up. I ould run the risk of exploding for the oversupply of one fluid or another. You have confirmed my choice of loveless sex, if for no other reason than to assure proper drainage! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-a-life-of-loveless-sex-or-a-life-of-sexless-love/491040/48 "2009-03-30T06:54:00Z")
You mean we aren’t doomed to both? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-a-life-of-loveless-sex-or-a-life-of-sexless-love/491040/49 "2009-03-30T09:01:19Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > No, I simply thirst for all knowledge. I like to start threads and see what happens. > > If you’d like I can go back to threatening the world. > > No, scratch that. I’m tired of the Evil Emperor thing. The mere thought of threatening people with satellite-mounted wave motion guns makes me weary. > > When I ask questions with a particular purpose in mind–say, for a story I’m writing–I try to always say so in the first line of the OP. Oh, OK. I’d definitely rather have the questions than the Evil Emperor thing… 😃 As to the OP, I’m having a hard time deciding. Whichever one I picked, I’m pretty sure I’d be sick of it after a while. ---
**Author:** ![Bluffcityguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@Bluffcityguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluffcityguy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-a-life-of-loveless-sex-or-a-life-of-sexless-love/491040/50 "2009-03-30T11:00:05Z")
Don’t know why I’m responding to this thread, but… Put me down for sexless love. I’ve got a couple very close friendships that provide me with all the sexless affection I need, but I’ve been celibate for around six years now, and am really, really in need of some NSA sex. Add to that rationale that I’m totally happy living alone, but for the lack of opportunity to get my rocks off. I don’t need someone interfering with the way I live… Cheers, bcg ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-a-life-of-loveless-sex-or-a-life-of-sexless-love/491040/51 "2009-03-30T11:13:41Z")
Gazelle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-a-life-of-loveless-sex-or-a-life-of-sexless-love/491040.md?page=2)