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Y'all remember that thread of "would you have sex with yourself?" and like a billion people replied saying "fuck yeah"????

I'm convinced 80% of those people are full of shit.

Wouldn't do it or would chicken out.

Edited 2014-01-15 01:43 (UTC)

Why though? This seems like an odd thing to think about to me.

Eh? You don't think about the things in front of you? I saw the thread with a bunch of "OH OF COURSE"s and was like "yeah right" and then I moved on.

I have a bunch of "secrets" I save for these threads but I never remember them and so I'm stuck with this shit.

Sorry, I'm having a hard time putting this into words. But I think, when people are just answering hypothetical questions like that for fun, I never really think to question it? For one thing, it's not like they'll ever actually have the opportunity to have sex with themselves. So, they're imagining a situation and saying what they imagine will happen. I just find it weird doubt someone else's fantasies. Obviously that's just how you feel and that's okay, it's not an important thing so I don't want you to think I'm arguing with you. It just seems strange to me and I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around it.

But ...it would be you. It's like masturbating with benefits.

I'm more liable to chicken out of sex with someone that isn't me, frankly.

I wouldn't because I don't dig my own gender...if it were a male version of me it would feel like incest...and I agree with anon that this is a weird thing to think about lmao

I guess Tumblr has me at this point where I'm hyper-sensitive to insincerity. Like when I think someone is even remotely posturing to look edgy or progressive or quirky or whatever my brains like NOPE. So that's why I noticed it at all.

Reading that thread was like I was suddenly back in middle school surrounded by people who would tooooooootally kick babies if they could aw dude isn't that so edgy and hilarious? Nope. I feel like the grown-up version of that is talking about how totally kinky and horny you are all the time. Sex/Drugs/Violence! The trifecta of edginess.

Edited 2014-01-15 02:44 (UTC)

lol, man your middle school sounds extreme! or maybe it was just the people in your year :P

Edited 2014-01-15 03:50 (UTC)

Yeah, I thought I left, but look at this whole thread. Man, will the edginess ever end????

I'm in middle school forever, my punishment in hell.

All is not lost! Peoples' immaturity tends to come out on the internet, especially anonymous. You are not doomed to suffer it forever!

Frankly, you're looking more like a person trying to look edgy by being contrary than some anons claiming that they'd screw themselves.

But having sex with yourself (assuming attraction isn't an issue) isn't edgy or daring? It's the dream "safe option", removes all the anxiety and awkwardness people tend to have when it comes to intimacy. Who's more intimate to you than yourself?

Now if the question had been "would you have sex with a total stranger" and the majority went hell yeah, then you'd have a reason for skepticism.

Plus weren't most of those comments anonymous? Other than trolls, who bothers lying in anonymous comments?

You really think there is no possible awkwardness to be mined with having sex with a person who has your face? No "wow I had no idea I looked/smelled/sounded like that" to be had? Maybe this is a low blow, but what do you suppose the collective self-esteem of this place is? I don't think people know themselves as well as they think they do as a general rule. Boning yourself would be the ultimate demonstration of that.

Your last point is just weird to me, I'm pretty sure people have sex with virtual strangers all the time. At least that behavior has precedent... I think I just identified why this discussion is stupid.

The anxiety in intimate situations comes from the fact that you're afraid your shortcomings, bodily or otherwise, would be exposed and then someone other than yourself would know about them (and worse, might tell even more people). These feelings are not entirely rational, but have basis in our struggle to trust other people with those details about ourselves.

I'm going to assume that in an encounter with yourself, these fears aren't an issue because you either already know all these things or if you discover something new (and really, how shocking could these discoveries be?), there's at least no danger of the news being spread. So it doesn't matter what the state of "the collective self-esteem of this place" is, because intimacy with yourself, even a hypothetical external version, is self-enclosed. You don't have to worry about the unpredictability of your partner's reaction. Maybe you come away with a few knocks to your self-image, but that's easily more preferable than a few knocks to your self-image and other people knowing about it.

Please, are you being intentionally obtuse? Virtual sex doesn't have anywhere near the same baggage as a real life sexual encounter. You've been arguing that body image is an obstacle to intimacy, which is true (I'm saying it's less a problem in the dream scenario). Making things "virtual" removes many, if not all of those deterrents, and that's exactly why a lot of people do it instead of going out hooking up with strangers.

Okay no one curr anymore, but I didn't have internet for a while and I just can't let this slide.

vir·tu·al
[vur-choo-uhl]
adjective
1. being such in power, force, or effect, though not actually or expressly such: a virtual dependence on charity.

I didn't mean cyber sex. I meant "what essentially amounts to strangers".

Okay, I'm out. Thank you for humoring me even though you disagreed.

Incorrect.

75%???

Look deep inside yourself, you know I love myself enough for it to be true :3

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