# You're offered the chance to attend a live sex party. (No coitus for you, though.) Do you take it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 10, 2013, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558 "2013-03-10T18:19:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/41 "2013-03-11T04:56:19Z")
I’d go as long as I didn’t feel a danger vibe. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/42 "2013-03-11T05:56:33Z")
In general? mmmmmmmmmmmaybe. In specific? No. That letter kinda weirded me out. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2013, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/43 "2013-03-11T06:03:54Z")
**Skald** , you know I love you, but you come up with some weird hypotheticals. Watching people is generally kind of boring. You get like two minutes of ‘okay, that’s interesting, he’s hot’, ten minutes of ‘is this a 30 second video on loop?’, then about 30 seconds of ‘okay that was fun, is there something to eat?’ But then I’m weird. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/44 "2013-03-11T16:50:57Z")
Absolutely attend! 1) This is where great stories come from, and 2) I would kick myself forever if I didn’t go. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/45 "2013-03-11T17:03:44Z")
Probably not, unless the friend was really desperate to go. I’m not repulsed by the idea at all, but not intrigued enough, either, to make a point of going for my own sake. ---
**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 11, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/46 "2013-03-11T17:33:17Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > To say nothing of it being a debasement of science. 😕 ---
**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 11, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/47 "2013-03-11T17:34:23Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#): > > **Skald** , you know I love you Stop it, woman! You know how I feel about feelings! > [@](#): > > but you come up with some weird hypotheticals. Hey, they’re all freewriting. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/48 "2013-03-11T17:41:33Z")
Not a chance. I’m just not ready to grow an orgy mustache at this point in my life. Or even buy a handjob orgy van. ---
**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 11, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/49 "2013-03-11T18:49:56Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Not a chance. I’m just not ready to grow an orgy mustache at this point in my life. Or even buy a handjob orgy van. I thought we had an agreement. _You_ would stop making Seinfeld references, and _I_ would stop beaming images of 1990!Julia Louis Dreyfus into your head. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/50 "2013-03-11T19:22:58Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > 😕 **Chronos** doesn’t get invited to those sorts of parties. [_“. . . such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess’s undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance to the theory of indeterminacy. Many respectable physicists said that they weren’t going to stand for this, partly because it was a **debasement of science** , but mostly because they didn’t get invited to those sorts of parties.”_](http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Infinite_Improbability_Drive) ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/51 "2013-03-11T19:25:31Z")
We needed 2 options, so that we could (or not) attend the sex party, AND have cheesecake. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/52 "2013-03-11T19:34:41Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I thought we had an agreement. _You_ would stop making Seinfeld references, and _I_ would stop beaming images of 1990!Julia Louis Dreyfus into your head. Well that agreement went out the window the minute you referenced an orgy. Giddyup! ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/53 "2013-03-11T19:35:13Z")
I was trying to decide between attending and having cheesecake when my SO suggested that my attendance could be contingent upon cheesecake. So, we will be attending assuming that we can have cheesecake. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/54 "2013-03-11T19:45:09Z")
I think I saw a movie where that was offered, the 2 guys who where given the offer found themselves beaten, robbed and tied up in the basement for the weekend. ---
**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 11, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/55 "2013-03-11T19:46:27Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > I was trying to decide between attending and having cheesecake when my SO suggested that my attendance could be contingent upon cheesecake. > So, we will be attending assuming that we can have cheesecake. Fool, etc. The cheesecake is what you get for ANSWERING THE POLL, not for helping [Penny Pax](http://i2.minus.com/inNscgiyfDawJ.jpg)amuse herself. ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/56 "2013-03-11T20:44:41Z")
Totally not my thing, so no, I wouldn’t go. It wouldn’t even occur to me to try and shut it down - how would you even do that, supposing you wanted to? ‘Officer!! Consenting adults are planning on having The Sex!!!’ ---
**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 11, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/57 "2013-03-11T20:48:05Z")
> [@eclectic\_wench](#): > > Totally not my thing, so no, I wouldn’t go. It wouldn’t even occur to me to try and shut it down - how would you even do that, supposing you wanted to? ‘Officer!! Consenting adults are planning on having The Sex!!!’ I know plenty of people who’d feel compelled to try to stop it, or would complain about it happening anywhere they knew about. They’d make an appeal to concerns about public lewdness and oh-god-we-must-think-of-the-children, and assert that Sean, no matter what she says, is being abused. ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/58 "2013-03-11T21:02:59Z")
:smack: I forgot to think of the children! Yeah, though, I do know the people you mean. Don’t get them, but I know them. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/59 "2013-03-11T21:42:51Z")
Before I answer, I need to know if there’s a password for the house. A friend of mine… long story. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558/60 "2013-03-12T00:18:04Z")
BTW, bravo, **bienville**. How _à propos_ for the day. And I’d rather _nobody_ be thinking of the children at an orgy. Except maybe to bring some cheesecake home for the kids and the sitter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-offered-the-chance-to-attend-a-live-sex-party-no-coitus-for-you-though-do-you-take-it/652558.md?page=4)