Why didn’t that come up for ME when I searched? :mad:
ETA: Oh, and I’ll take sexless love.
Definitely sexless love. I’m in the market for it right now actually lol
She’s just gonna call her husband/brother/endlessly-manipulated-&-only-occasionally-boned-puppet Hephaestus, who’ll immediately give her a better vehicle made out of parts from yours. Then her other brother/leman/partner-in-crime Ares will kick your ass. And that’s assuming she doesn’t turn you into a cockroach and step on you. If you’re gonna go the revenge route, you’d better start by getting Athena or Artemis on your side.
Sexless love, since it appears that cuddles, foot rubs etc are still fair game (unless they’re barred from both). Masturbation in each others presence will sort out the no sex rule I reckon.
:dubious:
The gazelle-with-a-broken-leg option is sounding pretty good right now.
How is this sexless love to be enforced? that’s my question.
I was thinking about this today.
I have never known love. I’ve barely known sex. I think love is far more fulfilling, but if I was aware of this “deal” and knew the love I was receiving was artificially induced, even if it felt real to us both, I wouldn’t handle it very well. Whereas if I had loveless sex, I could at least get some outrageous fun out of it.
So if I was aware of the magic spell woven upon me, then I’d choose loveless sex. If the whole deal was forgotten and I got to fall in love in a way that felt perfectly natural, even though it was artificial, I might choose the love. Or I might not.
So, in conclusion, my choice is probably going to be the loveless sex.
Like Anaamika says—what’s jacking off count as? 'Cause that provides options for emotional and technical workarounds for the problem.
Anyway, I’d probably lean towards sexless love—I’ve not had a hell of a lot of either in my life to this point, but with love, at least I wouldn’t die alone.
After that, I might try and get word to Xochiquetzal, and see if I can get her riled up with the news that more old world deities are horning in on her turf, and is she gonna take that from the pantheon(s) that just let the monotheists overrun their own homelands before spilling across the oceans?
And thus, above, you witness how my mind works. 
This.
That’s such a good point, that might swing my answer from sexless love to loveless sex.
Also, the loveless sex leaves room for platonic love. I could still have close, loving relationships with friends and family.
Sex, please. I can imagine I’m in love better than I can imagine I’m having sex.
Plus, if someone who supposedly loves you won’t have sex with you, how much in love are they, really?
Loveless sex. The sexless love option assumes we’ll be together forever and ever, which is… unlikely to say the least. It might be like one of those ‘literal genie’ screw overs:
“I do love you, Tijuana, I always will. Just, don’t tell my husband and don’t come over to visit. I love you!”
Might as well bang some bimbos, life is too short for wuv with catches.
I am not really so into love.
I could easily do with out. I think that is the major problem with my relationship. I like her and all I just dot really get the love feeling ever.
Depends on what kind of love the sexless love is.
If it’s the kind where the person I’m in love with is my intellectual and emotional partner in every sense of the phrase, with whom I can share my deepest thoughts and most personal feelings and receive insightful responses in kind…someone I can laugh with, listen to music with, stay up late driving around talking about whatever comes to mind, spend days together doing nothing and still count the moments until the next time we meet…then count me in. I’m running out of good friends these days, and it’s not like I’m getting an overabundance of sex anyhow.
If, on the other hand, it’s the kind of love that I had with my last long-term ex – the “I’m hopelessly in love with and devoted to you, which, when you get down to brass tacks, is really kind of annoying since it turns out we don’t share any common interests or personality traits anymore, and spending time with you is altogether pretty boring,” then hook me up with the sex.
If I was single and 10-15 years younger, I might be tempted by the loveless sex, but since I already have my soulmate/best friend/husband and am nearer to 50 than 40, I’ll go with the sexless love.
Well, first I’d ask her if she could introduce me to her… Sister? Aunt? Niece? Her kinswoman Athena, who’s a lot hotter than Aphrodite anyway. Which would probably amount to choosing the sexless love option, seeing as Athena is almost by definition one of the virgin goddesses.
Or maybe Athena would just turn you into a spider. 
Magic, obviously. She’s Aphrodite, after all.
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.
So, is there someplace where one can peruse the results of all this data mining?
