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I don't think you would be as sexually active as you think!...

posted 13 years ago by jcdugger
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I really loved this movie. It has made me think for days now. But I can't shake how unlikely some of the reactions would be. A "celebration" in the streets like it was New Year's Eve? I just don't see it. People actually at work, working? Unless you were a doctor and a humanitarian or something, perhaps. But no way if you work at the gas company or something! And to think the gas company would have a person available to hand-dial number after number, with only an hour or two left in the caller's life, is absolutely absurd. But what I really wanted to discuss was...

...having sex during the moment! Virtually everybody claims this is what they would want to do, but I'm not so sure. I love sex probably more than the next guy...But you would have to be overwhelmingly sad that day, knowing you and your family & friends are about to be violently killed in a matter of hours, that I just don't think sex would be on your mind as much as one might think. Sounds good in theory, but wouldn't you, I don't know, be with your loved ones as much as possible in the days leading up to the end? Wouldn't there be a lot of tears and hugs and emotions and "goodbye's"?

I asked myself to consider it seriously. How would I spend Earth's final days? I began to think of saying my goodbye's a day early, so I would have one final day to myself. Drink the best liquor I could find. Smoke the best leaf I could find. Eat the best foods I could muster. But, when it comes down to it, I don't think I'd ever want to say goodbye...to my friends, my life, my world. I think I would just want to spend time with them. Sex? Perhaps the night before. Perhaps that morning. But there would be so much going on with your mind and with your emotions that I don't think sex would be all that prevalent.

What do you think?

JD

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[–] jmbwithcats 13 years ago

I believe you are absolutely right. I would not be feeling romantic or horny at the end of the world, I'd be with my loved ones, singing, playing music, and looking into each other's eyes.

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[–] FCA1975 13 years ago

Doesn't require days of thought at all. What if you had no family or friends, or just did not like anyone?

[–] MultiSanity 11 years ago

There is a such thing as pity sex. Or just having sex because you're sad and don't want to be alone...think of it as a more intimate hug.

[–] hHard_Core_Logo 13 years ago

Good Post.

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[–] emmeaki 13 years ago

I don't think that the gas company people HAD to be at work. I think the husband was just going about his daily routine in kind of a denial that the world was ending. He probably called the customers of his own volition. And the virgin lady obviously had no social life since was around 40 and still a virgin and sneaking a drink at her desk every night. I assume she had nothing better to do than to go to work. You see that there were no other people working except those two.

What a waste. Oh, the humanity!

[–] sun_scryer 12 years ago

good points.

[–] hHard_Core_Logo 13 years ago

It's All Gushy!

[–] by_candlelight 13 years ago

Maybe if it was a shock that the world would end, then yes sex would probably be one of the last things on my mind.

But in this film, they had known a long time that the world would end, so many people had made their peace with that. See they were all doing different things, some were going crazy, some were calm and some were just doing their usual thing.

Personally, I would drink myself stupid just before it happened just to ease the blow!

[–] theluckdog 13 years ago

I have to disagree with the OP. Yeah, definitely sex for me ....... just not with the wife.

I've always wondered if identical triplets are REALLY identical. So I'd spend several weeks prior to the big dance locating a couple sets of 22-year old blond triplets ..... that one extra set in case the first set backed out for some reason. But I'd be fully agreeable to a 7-way if BOTH sets took the bait.

But anyway, if they didn't seem very promiscous & acted like they might not go for it, then I already have a plan. I'd tell them I was a multi-gazillionaire, richer than Trump & Oprah put together. If they weren't interested in just doing it for fun, then I'd whip out my checkbook & write each and every one of the gals a check for about $$20 mil. That would definitely lock in my plan for a triplet 4-way during my last hours of life ... or 7-way if the scenario mentioned at the end of the above paragraph happened.

As mentioned in the 2nd paragraph, these gals would be natural blondes, REAL blondes. So it never would occur to them that:

a. Multi-gazillionaires don't actually EXIST.

b. I don't ACTUALLY just that 60 mil or 120 mil those checks would require.

c. Even if I DID, all that money is USELESS to them .... well .... because all of the gals & me too would die while engaged in our little End-Of-The-World Orgy-Fest.

So yeah, there's my plan for last-day activities. Yep, definitely sex ..... 3 or 6 different sessions of it. Or maybe just 1 session with 3 or 6 different co-sex'ers involved.

[–] jessthehuman 12 years ago

I have to disagree with OP.

Originally (during) the movie I was thinking that same thing. However, it needs to be put in perspective, there are a LOT of people on this planet, the movie simply focused on the actions on some.

I've met a lot of 'sorts' in my life, I have no doubt some would party on the streets and some would have sex until the end.

The gas man dialing I think was perhaps an executive there, maybe it was HIS gas company, I am not sure exactly - but he was certainly there on his own free will. He was very calm and had obviously sunk into some kind of acceptance of it long ago. I would imagine he heavily associated the gas company with his personality and when he called up everyone at the end that was him saying goodbye and also maintaining his dignity in some fashion.

The lady working there was just tragic, as somebody else pointed out; still a virgin at 40(?). Obviously the fact she was still there was a reflection on her entire life, not just the final night.

And remember too - the people have known about it for quite some time and the movie does actually suggest (near the start) that there was a lot more chaos and violence in the beginning, before people accepted what was going to happen.

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[–] different-drummer 12 years ago

The fact is, you really don't know how you would behave in this situation. You really don't.

[–] ed2oh9 12 years ago

For some people, I beleive sex is the only way they truly "feel" loved. They don't like being hugged and patted on the back, because they want to keep an emotional distance from others. I believe it's because they were hurt in the past through either serious hurts, neglect, or even physical abuse. They can't associate a friend or family member's hug as "loving"; they just bear with it.

Sex however is extremely intimate. It's the one area where people with this particular frame of mind can let their guard down and let someone in close enough to touch them not only physically, but emotionally as well.

Granted, there are those people out there who probably would look at it as self gratification; but I think there are a lot of people who would want to "make love" on their last night on earth, not simply get their rocks off.

It would be a tough call, I'm sure. I know I would want to spend that time with my kids and the family members I'm close to, because that would likely be what they would want as well and because they mean so much to me. At the same time though, I know I would also love to be physically intimate with someone even if it was with a stranger.

Given the options, if I was still a single dad, I would likely choose my family. If they weren't anywhere nearby though, then I would rather end it all in the arms of a beautiful woman.