When will your Peter peter and $20 mil mean more?

[Blarg]

A poll was created here asking this question: Would you rather have $20 mill and never be able to have sex again, OR be able to bang any chick you want to any time you want to forever? 1/3 chose 20 million, 2/3 chose the endless pornucopia.

The vehemence of the faction I'll call the Pussy Party in their assertion of the primacy of pussy over all seemed a little comical to me, kind of like a bunch of junior high kids doubting their own masculinity telling everyone they aren't gay, and everyone had better believe it or else -- including the everybody who never asked or cared.

This was amusing, but also made me wonder what the 20-million guys felt that was so different. Was it a matter of age? Greed? Both? I know I was half crazed and perpetually tormented by boners from beyond space and time when I was a teenager, but things have calmed down a little now.

So the question is: What age, if any, do you think you would have to be to take the $20 million, whether because of greed or just a complete change in the urgency of your sex drive which you may presently fear worse than death?



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[astroglide]

you're completely missing the blackmail point. anybody that chooses money would be dumb.

[Blarg]

I think you're missing something way more important than the blackmail point, Astro, which is the murder point. There are plenty of guys in the world who would either murder you or pay somebody else to do it if you screwed their girlfriend or their wife. And not quickly, either. Your blackmail attempt could easily be your delivering an engraved invitation to your own funeral.

Even barring that, you could wind up going to jail. Then you could be the one being screwed over and over by people with powers far beyond your own, and that wouldn't be slow either.

I'm not saying one alternative is better or worse, just that blackmail is not a smart way to get both goals at the same time. I'm pretty sure you'd wind up dead fairly early in the game. Sounds kind of like drug dealing, where you might live a fantastic life for 10 or 15 years at most, and then you're either dead or spend a long time in prison and come out to spend the rest of your days working as a janitor wondering if you'll ever get a girl who is not a heroin addict or mentally handicapped.

Besides, what if you're such a monster stud that blackmail doesn't work, and the girls go around bragging instead of paying you off, and then calling your place at all hours of the night and phoning into your workplace, and showing up drunk on your lawn at all hours, annoying the neighbors? Which is probably exactly the way it would work out for most of us studs who have greatly refined our bodies and sex appeal by strenuous multi-tabling and flinging pizza crusts over our shoulders while crushing empty soda cans with our bare hands.

But not soda bottles, which we save and try to pee into.

[astroglide]

if the power had nothing to do with irresistable charm the question would be ludicrous because it's an instant jail sentence. if it is charm, you can blackmail people, sell dvds of you banging britney spears, etc. the blackmail part just makes it funnier. "i know you want me, so pay me and i won't take this to the next level"

[Blarg]

I agree that it's useless without the charm, but the charm is the ability to do the screw and get away with it, not to blackmail and STILL get away with it.

That's an entirely different matter, and gets away from the spirit of the thing much more than just sticking to the original idea in the first place.

So stick to the original subject of BOTH my and the original poll's question, and now answer MY question. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

No cheating and crossing your fingers behind your back.

[astroglide]

why don't you just ask when people begin to not care so much about banging people? or skip it because it's obvious that it occurs as people age. the polls are still heavily biased toward sex because it can earn money. make a rule that one cannot profit from the sex? if that's the case it's more interesting but still not a clear case to me because i have decent odds on being wealthy.

[Reef]

at 60, most guys can't get it up anymore.. so ya. That's when the $ starts coming into play.

[Blarg]

That's exactly what I was asking, Astro. Surely that's not hidden away. The whole point is, What would you be willing to trade off?

You can make your own poll if you want to micromanage mine so much, as well as the other guy's at the same time.

The crux of the matter though is not when things naturally fade, but what you would be willing to trade to go from where you are now to where you want to be. Nobody really knows when their sex drive will fade. Part of the interest is the torment of what would happen if you made the wrong decision. We're talking big deal dramatic consequences here.

By the way, as far as profiting from the sex -- I don't care how hot any guy thinks he is, if you're a guy, it's going to be fairly rare that you're not going to be on the wrong side of the sex=profit equation to the extent of lots of money being taken out of your pocket, not put in it.

You may personally have decent odds on being wealthy, which is astoundingly more than most everyone else has, which makes your answer at least as interesting as anyone's, so you might as well participate. But that doesn't change the fact that your odds of profiting from sex are probably miniscule indeed. You'll likely need all the magic you can get.

The polls are heavily biased toward sex, but not because sex can earn money, which it almost never can for males. It's heavily biased because young people tend to use the internet far more than older people, and young people do not look down on poker for religious reasons nearly as much as old people do. So the majority of respondents are almost guaranteed to choose sex over money.

The whole thing that prompted the additional poll was how interesting it was that some people did NOT choose sex over money. Choosing sex only 2 to 1 over money kind of surprised me. The macho bullsh** factor alone I thought would ensure a higher figure than that.

THe interesting part of the poll is how the question touches attitudes about sex and money society as a whole isn't really comfortable admitting. I bet you if you put people on a desert island and gave them complete freedom to make their decision in utter secrecy, the decisions would take way more time to make than anyone would expect, and we might come up with some really strange figures.

[daveymck]

I was one of the people who said take the cash.

The reason being like Blarg has said where it could take me from now and what benefits I can add to my life. Banging any old chick has appeal (I work in a uni walking into work is like going through the best sweet shop, there is an international blend here that every type of girl is here all 18-21) but I dont think it would improve my happiness overall.

With $20m I could pack in work, travel a lot look after my kids and immediate family, have nice cars and possesions and hopefully have a comfortable stress reduced life with an increased quality. Although money isnt a guarentee of that.

However I am living with someone and have a child so sex at this point will always be for pleasure and never to create, it is an important part of my relationship but is not the be all end all. If I didnt have a child I would not take the $20 mill in exchange for the opportunity to have her.

In essence I think this question is a trick one as neither sex or money = definite happiness, its getting the blend of both along with the other elements to make up a good balanced life that gives you some fulfillment.

[The once and future king]

If you can never have sex with your wife again do you think she might eventualy play away from home.

One point I think that is being missed is that the money option provides a negative (never having sex again ever) whilst the sex option still enables one to make money.

I chose the sex option not because of the pornocopia (a massive bonus none the less) but because I dindt want to live the rest of my life without having sex ever again.

Im 32, the prospect of living a whole life without sex (in any form) seems pointless so no amount of money would suffice to make me give up sex.

[daveymck]

It depends what the definition of sex was, it wasnt really specified. I assumed foreplay and hands/tounges etc could still be used.

He definatlety said sex and not orgasm so all is not lost.

[astroglide]

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You can make your own poll if you want to micromanage mine so much, as well as the other guy's at the same time.

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honestly stopped reading right there. totally lame. you're starting your own polls because you have an obvious interest in the way people are responding. people are responding because of the way they interpret the mechanics. if they are not clearly defined, you are not going to get good answers.

you can bother responding to this if you want but i'm not reading that either. it's a waste of time. your position is idiotic and contradictory. either you want to understand people responses or you don't. if you do, you should want the question to be completely clear but you're bitching about it.

[Blarg]

Astro, your response was the idiotic thing. It's a POLL, not a POSITION. I don't have any position to discuss.

Make your own poll instead of trying to add strange qualifications and extra rules to this one, and then repeatedly insulting me when I say the poll stands as it is. What's the matter with you? You're going nuts over a silly poll. It's just for fun.