# Would you spend a year as a member of the opposite-sex? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 15, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147 "2007-05-15T03:24:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/41 "2007-05-15T19:39:54Z")
[QUOTE=niblet\_head] Absolutely, yes. I’d want to experience and learn how to operate around guys when it’s just guys. How the social cues are different and what they mean and how to navigate them. I’d want to understand what the pressures of being a man in this culture are like. I’d like to know what the privileges are firsthand, too. I’d like to know what it’s like to have to deal with the male level of sex drive all day. I’d like to know what it’s like to have sex from the male side of the experience. I’d like to know what it’s like to sleep with your windows open and not have to worry about intruders, and what it’s like to be able to go through the world not having to worry about your personal safety (as much). I’d really like to know all the downsides to being male. I really have to wonder, now that I think about it, if I’d switch back at the end of the year. And I’d like to know what that would be like, too. I’m sure it would not at all be like I expect. [/QUOTE] There’s someone that did exactly that, and wrote [a book about it.](http://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Womans-Journey-Manhood/dp/0670034665/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2623012-6195356?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179257836&sr=8-1) It really is fascinating. I’m not sure actual men find being male as harrowing as the author - but it’s a very interesting read. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/42 "2007-05-15T19:45:36Z")
Yeah, and there’s that National Lampoon parody **Stacked Like Me**. But these aren’t really the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/43 "2007-05-15T19:49:16Z")
I’ll see if I can find that photo manipulation of myself that I did. It’s probably on my old laptop somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/44 "2007-05-15T22:23:09Z")
With **Autolycus** ’s provisions, yes. It’d be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/45 "2007-05-16T01:38:54Z")
Totally, and I’d be a slutty, slutty man. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/46 "2007-05-16T02:03:11Z")
I’d be poor, buying all those vibrators and such. But like others, I’d be a lesbian and a huge slut. Every like another woman. Times I’m not with another woman: shower. ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/47 "2007-05-16T02:23:58Z")
I think I’d pass. I guess I am weird but I suffer from a great lack of curiosity in this one area. I’ve never once wondered what it would be like if I were a guy. I like to do a lot of “guy stuff”. I love hockey and baseball, I’m a Star Wars geek, I read comic books, and I’m a gamer. But, I just cannot imagine actually becoming a guy. I know I would be throwing away a great learning opportunity, but I feel that I might just waste it wishing I was back in my girl body. Besides, I don’t think I could make it a whole year without being able to wear all my cute shoes. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/48 "2007-05-16T02:35:47Z")
I think I’d like to be a guy for a year but I’m a bit nervous that the other men will sense there’s something off about me and beat the crap out of me. Guys can be pretty harsh. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/49 "2007-05-16T02:39:37Z")
It’s so funny that women think that. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/50 "2007-05-16T03:06:04Z")
Why not? ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/51 "2007-05-16T03:18:34Z")
I’d try it, but I’d never get anything done. I’d just stay home playing with my tits all day. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/52 "2007-05-16T03:37:50Z")
I’d do it in a heartbeat, and maybe I wouldn’t want to change back. Except for My Guy. We’ve been together as two men, for almost 20 years, and I wouldn’t want to lose him. He’s about 90% gay and 5% het, and I couldn’t expect him to have only that 5% satisfied for the rest of his life, or even for a year. So . . . if I were single and had nothing to lose, I’d definitely do it. I’d love to experience sex with a man as a woman, and see how different it is from gay sex. But \*\*\*NEVER \*\*\*as a lesbian!!! It’d feel like we were both aliens (and not in a good way). ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/53 "2007-05-16T05:37:14Z")
[QUOTE=jackelope] I’d try it, but I’d never get anything done. I’d just stay home playing with my tits all day. [/QUOTE] Just your tits? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/54 "2007-05-16T06:47:00Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] He’s about 90% gay and 5% het [/QUOTE] …and about 5% pterodactylophile? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/55 "2007-05-16T06:59:23Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] …and about 5% pterodactylophile? [/QUOTE] Yup. (I wasn’t gonna bring that up) ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/56 "2007-05-16T08:07:42Z")
What I can I say? [I was](http://members.w-link.net/~fish/temp/stuff/fishm.jpg) [bored.](http://members.w-link.net/~fish/temp/stuff/fishf.jpg) The pictures are very out of date by this time; they’re approximately 10 years old, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/57 "2007-05-16T12:46:32Z")
without consequences and with a hot bod? Then yes, certainly. I would be a legend in my own time. ---
**Author:** ![GuyNblueJeans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GuyNblueJeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuyNblueJeans)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147/58 "2007-05-16T14:42:42Z")
Never. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-spend-a-year-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/404147.md?page=2)