Poll: Who here prefers Video Games to Sex?

[Vegosiux]

That's like asking if I'd rahter read a book instead of having my lunch.

There's a time and place for everything, and sex and vidya games are two things you really don't have to consistently choose between, because the times and places for them differ enough that they rarely come in conflict.

'sides, sex has to be a mutually agreed-upon activity, just because I want sex doesn't mean my partner has to drop everything and gift-wrap herself for me. That'd be selfish.

Oh, of course, how could I have forgotten...

[Insert mandatory bragging comment about how awesome my sex life is or was at a specific point in the past here]

 

[SonicWaffle]

So, sorry sony, mircrosoft, nintendo and valve... but unless you really step up to plate, the vagina is by far the superior platform for me. It's miles ahead in terms of interactivity, mechanics can be a bit naff, but once you get the hang of them it's a pleasure.

<insert cliched 'menstruation as hardware failure' joke here>

That aside though, I do find fault with your logic. Vaginas, sure, got no problem with them, but that's like saying an Xbox's disc drive is the whole console. Vaginas come bundled with a whole load of other stuff, some of which may go crazy and attempt to stab you in your sleep. As far as I know, my Xbox hasn't tried that yet.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

So, sorry sony, mircrosoft, nintendo and valve... but unless you really step up to plate, the vagina is by far the superior platform for me. It's miles ahead in terms of interactivity, mechanics can be a bit naff, but once you get the hang of them it's a pleasure.

<insert cliched 'menstruation as hardware failure' joke here>

That aside though, I do find fault with your logic. Vaginas, sure, got no problem with them, but that's like saying an Xbox's disc drive is the whole console. Vaginas come bundled with a whole load of other stuff, some of which may go crazy and attempt to stab you in your sleep. As far as I know, my Xbox hasn't tried that yet.

Yours probably needs a firmware update.

 

[SonicWaffle]

It's like...If you had to play games as a job, eventually you'd get sick of it, and you'd just go through the motions, that's what sex is for me

Wait, are you saying you're a porn star?

 

[Tigerlemur]

I reckon peoples reactions are gonna vary from "Well, duh" to "Begone you heathen!!!" to a rather patronising "You evidently haven't had sex enough/with the right people/in the right way". Some caveats to prevent the third: I have had sex with a variety of people, in a variety of ways and i'm pretty sure i'v had what is (or pretty close to at any rate) the best sex i'm ever going to have.

Call me old fashioned, but if you've had sex with a variety of people, you probably haven't found the correct person yet. I think it takes a person to have good sex, but it takes the right person to have the best sex of your life. And once you've felt that, you never go back.

'Course, I've got a lady on my arm that I plan to spend the rest of my life with. I'm very monogamous like that.

OT: I definitely choose sex, with the right person. Video games are fun and I would be sad to see them go, but I would never give up the intimacy I share with my girlfriend. It makes us both too happy.

 

[SonicWaffle]

as of this post, 79 escapists have never had great sex. my sympathies.

That's an odd thing to say. I've had some pretty damn fantastic sex in my time (in fact, when I contrast the performance reports given to me by both sources, I'm actually much better at sex than I am at games), but I still cast my vote for video games. There are a whole host of factors to consider, and reducing it to just "the sex you've been having wasn't good enough" conveniently ignores most of them;

- Video games are much, much easier to get. You go to the store, find one you want, and give a guy some money. You don't have to dress well, catch the eye of a video game, make awkward conversation, buy it a drink or take it on dates.
- You can legally rent video games, which (in most places) you can't do with vaginas
- As a console player, I am essentially running a plug-and-play system that gives me zero hassle with set-up or maintenance. Not so with long-term sexual partners, who have pretty much been the bane of my existence so far.
- Your friends don't mind if you borrow their video games.
- You can read magazines about gaming on the bus, or view websites in your lunch break at work, without having to explain yourself to anybody.
- When you get tired of a video game and put it away, it doesn't start stalking your or threatening to kill itself.
- Your video games will never sneak out of the house and let another gamer play them while you're asleep.

....jesus. Reading that back, I'm starting to suspect I'm pretty fucked up. I think I might need to go play more videogames

 

[Jovip]

You know what, in the past 7 years of my sexual activity...(i'm 19....yes...i know) i've slept with 28 woman.
i've done every style, every non-taboo fetish, tried almost every position i can think of, and some that i can't.
To this day, i'd still rather sit down with a thing of mountain dew and some chips to a good day long bout of videogaming then i would have sex for an hour every day for the rest of my life. Now, this may be due to my lack of general enjoyment from sex -anyways- but i still would pick videogames.

 

[RufusMcLaser]

BIologically, sex has unfair advantage due to release of mood enchanting drugs during sex act. practically, sex is only as miportant as continuing the species. games on the other hand are more important.

(emphasis mine on the grounds that we may not perceive the world in the same way.)

why? because people who like games more tend to talk about games more? how is that weird?
also my postcount in this site is very low, i have over 9000 (yes i said it) elsewhere.

The poster doth protest too much, methinks! I wasn't talking about you in specific, or being judgmental in a general sense, simply making an observation. Said observation being that other behaviors which suggest social withdrawal/isolation may tend to correlate with a shift in priorities which diverges from the social (dare I say biological?) mean.

 

[VeryOddGamer]

Well, since one of those activities I do constantly, and the other not at all, I'm going to go with video games, because I actually have first hand experience of them, and the consensus is that they're amazing.

 

[JEBWrench]

That's an odd thing to say. I've had some pretty damn fantastic sex in my time (in fact, when I contrast the performance reports given to me by both sources, I'm actually much better at sex than I am at games), but I still cast my vote for video games. There are a whole host of factors to consider, and reducing it to just "the sex you've been having wasn't good enough" conveniently ignores most of them;

- Video games are much, much easier to get. You go to the store, find one you want, and give a guy some money. You don't have to dress well, catch the eye of a video game, make awkward conversation, buy it a drink or take it on dates.
- You can legally rent video games, which (in most places) you can't do with vaginas
- As a console player, I am essentially running a plug-and-play system that gives me zero hassle with set-up or maintenance. Not so with long-term sexual partners, who have pretty much been the bane of my existence so far.
- Your friends don't mind if you borrow their video games.
- You can read magazines about gaming on the bus, or view websites in your lunch break at work, without having to explain yourself to anybody.
- When you get tired of a video game and put it away, it doesn't start stalking your or threatening to kill itself.
- Your video games will never sneak out of the house and let another gamer play them while you're asleep.

....jesus. Reading that back, I'm starting to suspect I'm pretty fucked up. I think I might need to go play more videogames

Point 1: You can do the same thing with sex.
Point 2: Arbitrary law.
Point 3: Depends on your friends.
Point 4: Also depends on your friends.
Point 5: Cosmopolitan
Point 6: Depends on your partner
Point 7: Then what happened to my collection of PSX RPGs back in Uni?!?

Okay, that was all just lighthearted.

 

[SonicWaffle]

I think in general I have a higher libido than my boyfriends, though.

Yeah that's what I'd ask a genie if he came down. "Can I have a GF with unlimited sex drive?"

Yeah, that's kinda...no. You really don't want that. Trust me.

Unless you're some kind of superhuman you will not be able to keep up. This will not only be disappointing and annoying for her, but will make you feel bad because you're upsetting her. Based on my own personal experience with that kind of girl (hurray, anecdotes!) she will start looking for it elsewhere because you can't satisfy her as much as she requires. There can also be a pretty upsetting circumstance where she won't take no for an answer, if you take my meaning, and since getting an erection is something that happens whether you want it to or not she'll end up getting her way no matter how many times you've said no.

A girl with unlimited sex drive is the kind of thing horny teenagers dream about, but in practice it's pretty fucked up.

 

[SonicWaffle]

So, sorry sony, mircrosoft, nintendo and valve... but unless you really step up to plate, the vagina is by far the superior platform for me. It's miles ahead in terms of interactivity, mechanics can be a bit naff, but once you get the hang of them it's a pleasure.

<insert cliched 'menstruation as hardware failure' joke here>

That aside though, I do find fault with your logic. Vaginas, sure, got no problem with them, but that's like saying an Xbox's disc drive is the whole console. Vaginas come bundled with a whole load of other stuff, some of which may go crazy and attempt to stab you in your sleep. As far as I know, my Xbox hasn't tried that yet.

Yours probably needs a firmware update.

Xbox, or vagina?

 

[ShakyFiend]

All those listing themselves as virgins or asexual, I hesitate to give advice that may come across as condescending, that said: Are you sure? Seriously, keep trying if your reason is previous bad experiences, you'd be amazed at some of the people that enjoy sex despite what they've gone through in the past.

You may think its "patronising" but from my perspective if you arn't enjoying sex its because you are either not doing it right or just picking lousy partners.

Call me old fashioned, but if you've had sex with a variety of people, you probably haven't found the correct person yet. I think it takes a person to have good sex, but it takes the right person to have the best sex of your life. And once you've felt that, you never go back.

Been there, done that, of course the quality of sex is going to improve in direct correlation to how (urgh) special the person is to you, and the best sex is better than the best video game,

Spoiler: that said, has anyone played

Gorogoa

I was talking about sex in general.

if you have a girlfriend who loves you and you'd rather play games than have sex with her, then I have some very mean things to say to you that would probably get me banned.

Yeah would never have made this thread if my girlfriend even knew of the existence of this forum, I was referring to the purely recreational benefits of sex vs video games, not the emotional etc. benefits.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

So, sorry sony, mircrosoft, nintendo and valve... but unless you really step up to plate, the vagina is by far the superior platform for me. It's miles ahead in terms of interactivity, mechanics can be a bit naff, but once you get the hang of them it's a pleasure.

<insert cliched 'menstruation as hardware failure' joke here>

That aside though, I do find fault with your logic. Vaginas, sure, got no problem with them, but that's like saying an Xbox's disc drive is the whole console. Vaginas come bundled with a whole load of other stuff, some of which may go crazy and attempt to stab you in your sleep. As far as I know, my Xbox hasn't tried that yet.

Yours probably needs a firmware update.

Xbox, or vagina?

Well if you think being stabbed in your sleep is "working as intended" I've got some news for you...

 

[SonicWaffle]

So wait, you've been raped by a woman?

Yup. In the technical sense, certainly, though obviously I'm not comparing it to the likes of what some people have gone through. She was my long-term girlfriend, I said no, she refused to take it for an answer, my biological function kicked in and she went ahead and jumped on despite my protestations. At that point, I'd given up trying to argue, so just let her do her thing. Sounds stupid, I suppose, but I'd been smoking weed all day and just couldn't be bothered to resist anymore.

and I get what you mean. Especially for a guy, sex literally becomes dull. Like your penis just isn't as sensitive to it anymore. If you have it lots anyways.

I mean, maybe "sensitivity" is the wrong word..... but I think you know what I mean. It's like you're going trhough the motions instead of actually enjoying anything.

That's when you start doing the whole "spicing things up" thing. It can get pretty fun, but I've found that as the sex gets dull and you keep experimenting with new things, they become dull too. So you experiment with kinkier stuff. It eventually gets to the point where it's all kinky, all the time, and you almost completely stop having ordinary sex. Though my personal theory is that this happened because I'd fallen out of love with the woman in question and was trying to keep myself interested in her.

My girl friend and I are in a long distance relationship, so when we see eachother, we pound eachother like mutant bunnies with grotesquely oversized genitalia. By the end of the week, we're having sex more because we know we won't get any for the next few months rather than because we really want it.

I hate long distance, mostly because of the obligations when they visit. Perhaps it's just my psycho exes, but when we lived apart and they'd come visit for a weekend, she'd want to spend every second doing stuff together because "we haven't seen each other all week!". I'd get tired of it a bit quickly, since I don't really do physical clinginess and start to get edgy without some time alone every day. Actually, reading everything I've written so far in this thread, I'm starting to come to the conclusion that I'm just a fucking terrible boyfriend

 

[SonicWaffle]

So, sorry sony, mircrosoft, nintendo and valve... but unless you really step up to plate, the vagina is by far the superior platform for me. It's miles ahead in terms of interactivity, mechanics can be a bit naff, but once you get the hang of them it's a pleasure.

<insert cliched 'menstruation as hardware failure' joke here>

That aside though, I do find fault with your logic. Vaginas, sure, got no problem with them, but that's like saying an Xbox's disc drive is the whole console. Vaginas come bundled with a whole load of other stuff, some of which may go crazy and attempt to stab you in your sleep. As far as I know, my Xbox hasn't tried that yet.

Yours probably needs a firmware update.

Xbox, or vagina?

Well if you think being stabbed in your sleep is "working as intended" I've got some news for you...

In fairness, it wasn't the vagina that tried to stab me. I imagine it would be too difficult to hold the knife handle, as vaginas can get pretty slippery. It was the rest of the unit, the non-genital parts of GirlfriendBot, which were utterly and totally insane.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

So, sorry sony, mircrosoft, nintendo and valve... but unless you really step up to plate, the vagina is by far the superior platform for me. It's miles ahead in terms of interactivity, mechanics can be a bit naff, but once you get the hang of them it's a pleasure.

<insert cliched 'menstruation as hardware failure' joke here>

That aside though, I do find fault with your logic. Vaginas, sure, got no problem with them, but that's like saying an Xbox's disc drive is the whole console. Vaginas come bundled with a whole load of other stuff, some of which may go crazy and attempt to stab you in your sleep. As far as I know, my Xbox hasn't tried that yet.

Yours probably needs a firmware update.

Xbox, or vagina?

Well if you think being stabbed in your sleep is "working as intended" I've got some news for you...

In fairness, it wasn't the vagina that tried to stab me. I imagine it would be too difficult to hold the knife handle, as vaginas can get pretty slippery. It was the rest of the unit, the non-genital parts of GirlfriendBot, which were utterly and totally insane.

Must have been a faulty model. If there's one complaint I have is that the makers don't give refunds.

Right... this metaphor may be getting too real for me.

It depends on what I'm in the mood for. When I'm really horny, sex seems to take priority over everything. When I'm not particularly horny, I far prefer gaming.

Unlike Zhukov, if I had to give up one forever, I'd likely choose sex. I'm not getting any younger, and I have a hard time imagining sex continuing to improve as the years go by, whereas my enjoyment of gaming remains relatively unchanged from when I was young. However, given my druthers, I would give up neither.

I... Oh God. I'm picturing creepy basement dwellers with virtual girlfriends, or pillow girlfriends (does such a thing exist?), and fleshlights.

EDIT: Oh god... OH GOD. PILLOW GIRLFRIENDS ARE REAL?!

Damn my naive curiosity.

 

[Vegosiux]

as of this post, 79 escapists have never had great sex. my sympathies.

i love games, a lot. gaming is the only hobby i've kept up for over 15 years. but i still pick sex every time.

I'm not sure I understand, this post seems written with the tone that we should be in awe of your sex life and/or feeling sorry/bad in case ours aren't as awesome as yours is, but you never actually said it straight...

0.o

But uh yeah, my real answer to the OP's question is higher up in the thread.