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Sex or affection?

Poll: Would you keep sex or affection?
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Sex
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 5 26.32%
Affection
63.16%
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Can't decide
10.53%
 2 10.53%
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Sex or affection?
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#21
RE: Sex or affection?
December 8, 2016 at 9:04 am
Sex. No, affection. Wait no, sex. No, affection!

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RE: Sex or affection?
December 8, 2016 at 9:04 am
I'd have to go with sex. i'd miss the affection but the endless blow jobs would take my mind off it.



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RE: Sex or affection?
December 8, 2016 at 9:38 am
Sex. Can't give up the bonin'.

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RE: Sex or affection?
December 8, 2016 at 9:45 am
(December 8, 2016 at 8:49 am)paulpablo Wrote:
(December 8, 2016 at 8:46 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Sex IS affection so I'm not sure how to answer that.

Now, if I had to pick between sex OR hugs I'd pick sex. A hug is just one show of affection. Sex includes several.

My bold.  Not necesserily.  An extreme example would be rape.  Or maybe it is and rape is forced affection from one person who wants to show it to another who doesn't want to recieve it.

I think that sometimes sex could be used as a pure biological need without even liking someone or showing fondness for them.

I suppose the question should specify non affectionate sex. Though apart from rape, I'm still not sure how that would be possible unless there was a sheet with a hole on it between me and my spouse.
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RE: Sex or affection?
December 8, 2016 at 10:10 pm (This post was last modified: December 8, 2016 at 10:16 pm by robvalue.)
I'll clarify here that this isn't meant to reflect any sort of likely real scenario. It's just a thought experiment.

If you take the affection, you can still "see to yourself", let's say Smile And I'm not saying the sex has to be cold and meaningless necessarily, just that your contact is limited to those times where you're having sex, and is more sexually focused.

This is my take on the question anyway; feel free to answer under your own caveat.
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December 8, 2016 at 10:20 pm
(December 8, 2016 at 10:10 pm)robvalue Wrote: I'll clarify here that this isn't meant to reflect any sort of likely real scenario. It's just a thought experiment.

If you take the affection, you can still "see to yourself", let's say Smile And I'm not saying the sex has to be cold and meaningless necessarily, just that your contact is limited to those times where you're having sex, and is more sexually focused.

This is my take on the question anyway; feel free to answer under your own caveat.

In that case I'd take the sex so long as the sex can still be loving and affectionate.
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RE: Sex or affection?
December 9, 2016 at 1:10 am
(December 8, 2016 at 10:20 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:
(December 8, 2016 at 10:10 pm)robvalue Wrote: I'll clarify here that this isn't meant to reflect any sort of likely real scenario. It's just a thought experiment.

If you take the affection, you can still "see to yourself", let's say Smile And I'm not saying the sex has to be cold and meaningless necessarily, just that your contact is limited to those times where you're having sex, and is more sexually focused.

This is my take on the question anyway; feel free to answer under your own caveat.

In that case I'd take the sex so long as the sex can still be loving and affectionate.

That makes the question a thousand times easier.  I'll definitely be keeping the sex.

I was imagining no intentional sexual release while hugging and kissing a girl forever vs sex with an ugly girl you hate forever.

A bit like asking do you want the world to be like 1984 or lord of the flies.


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RE: Sex or affection?
December 9, 2016 at 1:49 am
(December 9, 2016 at 1:10 am)paulpablo Wrote:
(December 8, 2016 at 10:20 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: In that case I'd take the sex so long as the sex can still be loving and affectionate.

That makes the question a thousand times easier.  I'll definitely be keeping the sex.

I was imagining no intentional sexual release while hugging and kissing a girl forever vs sex with an ugly girl you hate forever.

A bit like asking do you want the world to be like 1984 or lord of the flies.

In hat scenario, I'd take affection. Easily. I have no desire to have loveless sex with someone I don't care for.
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RE: Sex or affection?
December 9, 2016 at 2:45 am (This post was last modified: December 9, 2016 at 2:46 am by robvalue.)
I still take the affection personally. I love sex of course, but I value constant affection even more. I am an incredibly cuddly person Blush
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RE: Sex or affection?
December 9, 2016 at 11:39 am
Affection but sex is a nice bonus
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