Feature
- Do You Hate Your Partner, Too?
- California Teen Avoids Heavy Sentencing by Passing the Buck
- Wanna Buy Your Teenager a Padded Push-Up Bra?
- Vampires in Texas!
- These Guys Are As Bad As Westboro Baptist Church
- Funny Letters Sent to Women's Magazines
- Women's Ski Jumping: Still Not a 'Real' Sport
- Will the World Be Pro-Choice Soon?
- Are We Getting Too Lazy to Even Divorce?
- Forever 21's Maternity Line: Glamorizing Teen Pregnancy?
So, my husband is in his last year of grad school and he’s taking a class on modern feminism. Some of the assignments they’ve bestowed upon him? Watching All My Children (gag) and reading stereotypically geared-towards-women magazines like Ladies’ Home Journal.
While these two things have never been a part of my life before — and All My Children will be excommunicated from my home once he completes his class — I have to admit to perusing the Journal in my spare time. Since, you know, it’s just sitting here on my bar doing nothing else.
The husband had picked up LHJ’s February 2010 issue and I came across a poll that they had recently taken among their readers. The question was “Which would you rather have, great sex or a great body?” Of all of the readers who participated in the survey, a whopping 63% stated that they’d rather have a smokin’ figure than a sizzling sex life.
Initially, the results shocked me. I, for one, love sex. I am one of those women who could have sex everyday, three times a day. I’m not a sexual compulsive; it’s not like I crave it all of the time or anything, but if the opportunities presented themselves several times a day, chances are, I’d take ‘em. However, after digesting the poll results for a few days I came to the conclusion that had I participated in the survey, I think I’d be voting with the majority.
While sex is great and a steamy sex life is even better, I think, for me, I’d rather deal with a fabulous body and not much to do with it than having a “just okay” body and receiving tons and tons of porno-esque sex — and it wouldn’t be for the admiration of others, either. My rationale would simply be based upon the fact that I’d look my absolute and utter best and I’d be content with just that.
What about you guys? Would you rather have a flawless figure or would you opt for the hot sex each and every day for the rest of your life?
You Might Also Like ...
-
-
18
I think I’d go with the body. For one thing I really do need to lose weight so a rocking bod would be good for my health more so than hot sex. I also think that a hot body is likely to lead to hot sex but hot sex isn’t quite as likely to lead to a hot body. Also, you can’t fake a hot body but you can ‘fake’ hot sex without a partner ;-)
I think it was an either/or proposition. You could have the hot body or the hot sex.
I agree- a hot body will lead to hot sex. The better you look, the more confidence you have, makes it a whole lot easier to be an open, giving, freak-in-the-sheets. Plus the extra endurance and stamina means longer sex sessions.
I wouldn’t trade the sex I have with my husband for a hot body. Sorry, but a hot body seems like a lot of work and I’d rather have sex.
Honestly, I wouldn’t want to give up either one!!!! Talk about difficult choices!
I would rather have magic headphones that enabled me to understand my horse perfectly.
I already have a hot body and I’m great in bed. But if I didn’t have these qualities, I would choose hot sex. I too, Sarah, love sex. :)
When I first saw the headline, before reading the article, I thought it was asking which would we choose in a partner. I didn’t think it would be about ourselves. As far as partners go, I would choose hot sex in a minute rather than a hot body.
I’ve met plenty of gorgeous model guys that were dumb as rocks and horrible in bed but they had gorgeous bone structure and abs for dayysss…
I’d take the hot sex as you can go to the gym by yourself and work on that, but for hot sex…let’s just say it takes two to tango.
Some of us will never be hot no matter how hard we work in the gym. Working out won’t make me any taller and it won’t make my hips any narrower. I might manage a size 8 at 5′2″ but that’s hardly smoking hot. If I could exchange a few of my extra pounds for some extra inches in height I’d do it in a heartbeat.
Rhonda, you’ve got me by a whole inch! And when I’m not a huge beast of a pregnant lady, I’m usually around a size 3-5. I’m not blessed with breasts (when not breastfeeding) but I have curvy hips and a round booty so it makes up for it. A “hot” body does not mean perfect body. Toned and healthy is hot to me.
I’d rather be short than have some other percieved deformity of the mind or body. Not the worst thing in the world…
I’m 5′3 and if I’d start working out again I could manage a size 10. That doesn’t sound too bad, no? A size 8 is even smaller! I know what you mean about how nice it would be to just be a weeeeeeeee bit taller, but honest to god, as long as everything is in proportion and reasonably toned I think it’s all good.
There is a procedure that’s used cosmetically in China and Japan. They basically break your leg bones and set them into a cage device that is attached to the bones with pins and wires. You turn the pins daily and that is supposed to wided the gap in the bone so that new bone can grow in the space, lengthening the leg bone. You have to be in a wheelchair for a whileand recovery is grueling. My cousin had one on a leg that broke and wasn’t set right so it healed in such a way that it was shorter than her unbrokern leg. Hers was not cosmetic, it was to align her gait and stop her back problems.
So you CAN add a few inches
You can look into it on shortsupport DOT org under the HEALTH section.
I would never put myself through that because being short has never impacted my life in any real way. I WILL say that while I was in HS and later in the Air Force, not 1 day went by that I didn’t get some comment about how short I was. It became the norm. In my home, my husband is also short 5′4, so I can go days and weeks without thinking about being short. haha!
Are you kidding me?? Being short and petite is extremely HOTTTTT if carried with confidence! And, you don’t have to be a size 2 to carry it off! An 8 or 10 can be VERY becoming in a petite frame if the right proportions are all there. I am 5′1 and a size 10 and have ALWAYS been told how sexy and beautiful that I am by men! (I do have an extremely beautiful face…) But I am thicker, and curvier (I have a bootie and nice chest) and that has always worked for me. I work out and stay fit, but it is a fit size 10 and I love it~
This choice is rediculous. Because a hot body is subjective, while hot sex is objective – it is simply enjoyable sex. What if you chose the body and it wasn’t your version of hot? or your partners? I betcha my hot body aint your hot body! What if your idel of ‘thin’ or ‘curvy’ was too thin or fat and it was hard to get sex! I can just imagine a bunch of people walking around like Jessica Rabbit and Roger Ramjet – like caracatures of ‘hot’.
Thank goodness we do not design our own features, or there would be millions of REALLY odd looking people out there due to the warped perceptions the human race has for its own appearance.
This question sucks.
*C. All of the above!
It would depend on whether the one you don’t choose to be awesome is nonexistent/awful, or simply mediocre.
For myself, rather than a hot (visually) body, I’d rather have a perfect (functionally) body.
Sure, I think sometimes that parts of me could stand to be better-looking, but I frequently think that parts of me need to be better-working.
Then again, an ideal (functionally) body (ie. lean, strong but not heavy muscle, and low body fat), is what I consider particularly attractive.
[...] Hot bodies versus hot sex: Which of the two would you choose [Zelda Lily] [...]
[...] would you rather – A hot body or hot [...]