Would You Give Up Sex For Your Cell Phone?

brandyalexander
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 09:36 am: [report]

oxygen, sleep, shelter, food, water… that’s about it.

Riley
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 09:39 am: [report]

@Brandy - Shelter is over-rated.

bumbler
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 09:40 am: [report]

Do I still get a land line?

hlh22
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 09:45 am: [report]

I’m not sure that I’d be willing to give up email or my cell (I also don’t have a landline—perhaps getting one could convince me to do without).  Otherwise, I can’t think of anything else that I’d consider putting on the table.  I can live without coffee, most material possessions, etc.  On a most positive note, imagine how fabulous it would be after a year without it… I’m pretty sure my bf and I would be in my room for a few days…

_jsw_
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 09:46 am: [report]

Having made it a year without sex quite a few times, including my first couple of decades of life, I think I could give it up for a number of things. However, assuming I had the option of sex with someone I wanted sex with, then I don’t think I’d give up the necessities MixedDrink mentioned, and I’d have a hard time parting with the Internet, but it’d ultimately lose. Coffee, though… that’d be a struggle.

brandyalexander
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 09:57 am: [report]

Riley: Granted, if you’re having enough sex, you don’t even notice the elements.

_jsw_
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 10:00 am: [report]

@brandyalexander: I disagree. When you’re having enough sex, you definitely notice the chemistry. </bad pun>

SCRMOM
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 10:08 am: [report]

Other than the basic life necessities that brandyalexander mentioned above, I can’t think of anything other than my kids.

@_jsw_: Is coffee really that good that it would be a struggle?  I must be the only 30-something year old who has never even tried it (not even in college).

Perceptible
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 10:09 am: [report]

When I was with my ex husband, and for the years following that when I was single, I would have easily given up sex in exchange for just about anything else. Now that I’m with my bf I wouldn’t give up sex with him for anything. You can have my cell phone, my car, my computer, or my flat screen TV.

_jsw_
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 10:14 am: [report]

@SCRMOM: No, not really (although I do love it, but can’t stand it when it’s poorly made of of poor quality). Pretty much the only things I wouldn’t give up for sex would be things that I’d need in order to be able to have sex, which would be the basic necessities of life.

Well, OK, I wouldn’t give up everything in my life except for an IV drip and a small heated room, but I can’t think of any individual non-life-critical thing I wouldn’t strongly consider giving up.

_jsw_
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 10:15 am: [report]

@Perceptible: PM me your address, and I’ll be by to pick them up. Thank you!!

Humble Bee
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 10:19 am: [report]

I’m with _JSW_ ,I haven’t had sex in about a year AND I don’t own a cell phone. I never used it, so I ended up giving it to my mom.  Should I be miserable then?, no sex, no phone, lol. Very little makes me happy so I’m OK.

retro chic
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 10:24 am: [report]

@Perceptible: Exactly – 100%!... but with my own SO.
And, Wendy, does that incl (giving up) sex with yourself, too?
Either way… the cell and all the rest can go.
IE, there are some connections that are more important than the digital ones. Some people just need it. Can you hear me now…

jsw: uh-huh. Ever the helpful one. wink-wink

_jsw_
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 10:28 am: [report]

@retro chic: I do my best. If you’re ever in need of anything, please let me know.

@Humble Bee: Droughts aren’t so bad once you get used to them, are they? Of course, a monsoon at the end of it would be welcome.

SouthOC
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 10:31 am: [report]

@SCRMOM:  Your kids must not be teenagers yet…

Where do I toss my iPhone?

SCRMOM
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 10:36 am: [report]

@SouthOC: No, not even close to teenagers yet.  My youngest just started kindergarten, and they are all pretty close in age.  [This fact would explain my response to today’s poll meant for us ladies.]

LunaLena
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 10:43 am: [report]

I heard about this on the radio this morning.  I think it’s amusing how quickly people have come to depend on their cell phones - fifteen years ago, barely anyone had them, and now they’re so essential people don’t know what they’d do without them.

@SCRMOM - You’re not alone!  Both my older brother and I do not drink coffee and probably never will.  We had a self-inflicted traumatic (but harmless) incident as children, with the result that neither of us ever want to drink coffee.

SCRMOM
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 10:44 am: [report]

@_jsw_: I’m not sure if your first sentence in your reply back to me is about coffee or sex. J/K

_jsw_
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 10:47 am: [report]

@SCRMOM: It was about coffee-fueled sex, but I can see how it might have been misinterpreted.

SCRMOM
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 10:50 am: [report]

@LunaLena: While I never had any “self-inflicted traumatic incident” with coffee, I wouldn’t want it to compete with my Diet Coke addiction.

retro chic
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 11:17 am: [report]

@jsw: OK, but it would seem your specialty is in the pick up… do you deliver too?

Lilypie
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 11:22 am: [report]

You can have my cell phone for nothing in return.  I hate talking on the phone and resent the idea that we all need to be available 24/7.

amorsalado
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 11:23 am: [report]

Ironically enough, I’ve given up sex in order to (try to) have a baby!

brandyalexander
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 11:30 am: [report]

@amorsalado:  how, how, and why????

_jsw_
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 11:35 am: [report]

@retro chic: Sure, I’ll bring food too, if you’re into that. And when I deliver, I don’t just slam it all down any which way. I’ll ask how and where you’d like me to put things.

@brandyalexander: As a guess, holding off on sex to allow for sperm donations for fertility treatments.

amorsalado
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 11:39 am: [report]

@brandyalexander: the world of assisted reproductive technologies is a mixture of exact science, tricky tricky minefield, and some freaking voodoo.

IVF is the only way we’ll ever be able to have a baby, and while cycling and taking shots to stimulate and oral hormones and vaginal hormones—well, there’s a lot going on.  We have our one time “scheduled sex” per cycle, and then wait and see what happens.

Granted, I haven’t given it up for a year, and you don’t have to cycle back to back like we do, but regardless…  While whacked out on that many hormones one tends to be insane and weepy instead of sexual.

The question just made it really hit home how strangely ironic it is for me.

JenniferRly
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 11:39 am: [report]

I’d give up sex over the rest of my time with my husband, but that’s it… Thank goodness we don’t actually have to choose!

SCRMOM
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 11:44 am: [report]

@amorsalado:  I wish you luck with your IVF!

brandyalexander
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 11:47 am: [report]

@amorsalado: Wow.  That sounds like it would take a lot of patience.  I hope I didn’t sound like a jerk (reading my comment now, I feel like I may have), I just don’t know about these things, since I’m usually spending more time avoiding pregnancy, not courting it.  Anyway, good luck with the baby making!  I hope it is all worth it!

amorsalado
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 11:51 am: [report]

@SCRMOM:  Thanks!

@brandyalexander:  No, you didn’t sound like a jerk at all.  Seriously.  Besides, I remember the days that I spent my time actively avoiding pregnancy myself.  Lots of stuff happened between then and now is all.

So far it’s been heartbreaking, but I honestly believe that eventually it will all be worth it, and that’s why I keep doing this crazy stuff!

bethlynn00
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 03:40 pm: [report]

I mean I guess it really depends on if its good sex or great sex…I’m mean for great sex you could take my cell for a year, especially since I have two of them (one is for work), but for just good sex, I think I would keep my phone.  They would have to clarify that for me.

C.Munro
wrote on October 7 2009 @ 04:21 pm: [report]

Heck, I’ve voluntarily gone the last year and a half or so for nothing more than the freedom of not having to worry about it.  It’s kind of liberating.

majicksand
wrote on October 9 2009 @ 12:43 pm: [report]

I went without sex for 3 years by choice. The first year and a half was the end of my first marriage.  The following year and a half was me not being ready to start anything new.

Now that I am quite happily married to my second husband, I’d be willing to give up just about anything other than my children to keep the sex.  I have 2 teens and a 6 yo.  They are pains in my butt, but they’re mine.

Besides, it would be mean to inflict my boys on anyone else.  I’m a nicer person than all that!

SCRMOM
wrote on October 9 2009 @ 04:38 pm: [report]

@majicksand: As a mom to both sexes, I will say that boys are far easier than girls.  And…we haven’t even gotten to the teen years yet!

majicksand
wrote on October 9 2009 @ 04:49 pm: [report]

@scrmom: I’m positive my mother would agree with you!

Red_Lady
wrote on October 9 2009 @ 05:42 pm: [report]

Retro Chick makes a good point.  It’s not as bad giving up sex if you still have some self-lovin’. 
But I think the only way I would voluntarily give up sex is to save my life or one of my loved ones.

MadMax
wrote on October 10 2009 @ 08:25 am: [report]

I’d give my cell phone (and a few other things) in a second if it meant great sex on a regular basis.

_jsw_: After a year I still don’t think I’ll be getting used to this drought. It’s just not happening.

canadiancutie
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 07:22 pm: [report]

No, there is nothing.