The 237 reasons we have sex

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-sex01aug01,0,649209.story?coll=chi-newsopinion-hed

Including "to get rid of a headache", so ye olde excuse has been flushed forever.

[MissMillie]

1. We have sex?

Who does?

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Freepers have sex. It is our Constitutional duty to outbreed them.

It's for Freedom itself. ;-)

[PoconoPragmatist]

3. What About People Who Don't Want Sex?

Can I sell you my share?

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Unfortunately, I have less money than sex, but thanks for the good thoughts

:7

[PoconoPragmatist]

6. Well, I Was Willing

Because I'm flat broke...and, being asexual anyway, I don't want sex. The very idea is actually repulsive to me. I know, that's going to sound strange to some people, but we are out there...people who are honestly repelled and grossed out by sex.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. You may be less alone than you think.

There was an interesting story by Theodore Sturgeon, in which one character pondered our societal obsession with bumping uglies. He came to an interesting conclusion, but I don't remember it well enough to do it justice. Read all of his work, as it always touched upon the human condition.

[IndianaJones]

5. to aleviate restless penis syndrome. nt.

[Seashell Eyes]

8. one third of women aren't interested in sex?

I think that is bullcrap. They just aren't interested in bad sex.

[PoconoPragmatist]

9. Well

I am one of that 1/3. Not interested in sex, period. Good, bad, or otherwise. I'm actually disgusted by the concept of sex.

I think this has a lot to do with two factors.

One, having been sexually molested in my youth.
Two, growing up in the 80's when sex education was all about how AIDS killed, and could not be cured, and the message basically became "sex=death" and totally scared the crap out of me.

I don't know what sex education is like today, but I sure hope they are not subjecting our young'uns to the horrors of 1980's-style sex education.

[Seashell Eyes]

10. that's understandable

I had sex education in the mid '90s and they weren't scaring us by then. They talked about contraception as much as they talked about stds. I'm just not interested in sex when I feel like that's all the guy wants from me. It's a terrible feeling.

[PoconoPragmatist]

12. Yeah

Lucky you that you didn't have 80's-style sex education where about the only thing they talked about was STD's...and the message became "sex=death" and literally it was llike the underlying message was that every sexual encounter led to an STD...particularly AIDS, which just killed you, and there was no cure. They scared the crap out of us. I wonder how many others were permanently damaged from this sort of teaching in their most impressionable years.

What I know now, intellectually, makes no difference, it is still in my gut.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

11. I think I've used one of the 237 reasons

at some point or another... but to be honest, with the right person I don't need a reason. We just do, because...

[Deja Q]

13. Speak for yourself.

:P

[BlueIris]

14. You try having sex with a headache sometime.

I really hate it when these threads are posted. People around here start showing their true colors re: attitudes about sex and sexuality and they are not pretty.

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. I've had a few migraines in my time, and never got frisky to change them.

You could consider this an opportunity to create a dialogue with others...

[Seashell Eyes]

16. Me neither.

I can't do anything when I'm having a migraine, much less that. For me, the only cure for a migraine is to sleep it off.

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. BTW, I was knocking people for using excuses, not for when they actually have headaches.

Just say no if you mean no.

[Redstone]

17. Who needs even ONE reason?

Mrs R and I certainly don't.

Redstone

[bicentennial_baby]

19. 'Zactly

:D