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hanabius yamamura

12:42 / 17.10.03

... now, please don't think i spend vast amounts of my life thinking about this but, if you could travel in time - either backwards or forwards - and you could meet yourself, would you have sex with yourself and is that masturbation of a sort ?

... any thoughts ?

... personally, i would - sounds like fabulous fun and at least you'd know what you liked etc. ... has some interesting implications though ... ... ...

... and, before you ask, it IS a dreadfully slow afternoon at work that has me staring into space thinking such things ...

Jack Fear

12:55 / 17.10.03

Nah. I'm not my type.

Smoothly

12:59 / 17.10.03

One day you might be.

Tryphena Absent

13:04 / 17.10.03

Well I think it depends whether I fancied myself or not and obviously I can't tell because I can't see myself except in a mirror and no one looks quite right in a mirror so I don't know. Also would I know it was me, what if I was 50, I might not recognise myself or fancy me. See, life is way more complicated than you think- I mean you're probably imagining yourselof screwing you as you look now but you might not look how you look now or, for that matter in your past, you might look completely different and have terrible hair or something.

Bill Posters

13:10 / 17.10.03

i had a dream i had sex with myself once. Seriously, I wuz deraming I was in bed with a guy (i'm str8, but that sort of dream happens occasionally) and I couldn't see his face then he turned his head and it was me!!

There was a young man called Narcissus,
Who said, "What an awful mess this is,
For though, on reflection,
I've got an erection,
All I can do is blow kisses."

Tryphena Absent

13:22 / 17.10.03

[whispers] gay... [/whispers]

Bill Posters

13:46 / 17.10.03

in all seriousness I think it means I'm a repressed homosexual secondary narcissist of some sort, rather than a proper fya-git. I often find myself attracted to women who look like me. It's prolly not entirely healthy, but then, what can one do? Anyway, enough autopsychoanalysis, you kids carry on with your sci-fi thread. Like, wouldn't the parallel universes spectacularly implode if one had sex with oneself, or am I just being paranoid?

Tryphena Absent

14:14 / 17.10.03

Sooo, you're bisexual then?

Sax

14:14 / 17.10.03

I certainly wouldn't fancy any of my younger incarnations, as I'm the best I've ever been right now. But when I was younger I would have had too much of a stick up my ass to fancy me as I am now. So perhaps if a future version of me travels back in time, they might want to get it on with me as I am now. But I might not like what I've become.

This isn't working. It isn't me, it's me.

Saint Keggers

15:10 / 17.10.03

I think I would but then I realize that our kids would probably have flippers.

bitchiekittie

16:19 / 17.10.03

oh HELL no. and no, there are no further thoughts on the matter.

HELL no.

pomegranate

16:40 / 17.10.03

well i'm not into girls and i think i'd perform lousy cunnilingus. so i wouldn't want to give, nor receive, head to, or from, myself.

William Sack

16:46 / 17.10.03

No, I don't really think I would go for myself either. I think it would be great fun to cock-tease myself though.

Ethan Hawke

17:07 / 17.10.03

Are you people insane? Of course I'd have sex with myself, even though I've never had sex with a man and have very little inclination to do so. I'd do it for a few reasons - (1)bragging rights - how many people could say they've done that? (2) who would know how you'd like to be treated better than you (3) it's an unbearably naughty idea.

God, who are you people who wouldn't do this?

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

17:47 / 17.10.03

The answer is an unqualifed yes. Just to see the look of shock and horror on my face.

Mourne Kransky

17:57 / 17.10.03

Of course, because I would do it so well. Every movement would be perfectly choreographed. I would particularly like to be in a position to be teaching the younger me some tricks I've learned since then that might tease the beast within to come out and play a bit sooner.

Research indicates that siblings who meet in adulthood after being separated since birth feel very strong physical attraction, so the narcissistic drive must be strong.

But, then again, I've encountered the grandfather paradox often enough in SF novels to think all of this might have some unforeseen consequences. I might spoil me for other men, for one thing.

cusm

19:32 / 17.10.03

Hell yes. I know exactly how to please me.

But the real question is, would I respect myself in the morning?

Papess

19:46 / 17.10.03

Well, of course!

I am already attracted women who look like me, ie: dark complexion, eyes and hair...boob size not important however. I always thought it was a bit of narcissism, to be honest, although my steady girlfriends have been ALL strawberry-blondes or black women, both of which I am clearly not.

So yeah, I would definately go fuck myself, but I would dump me right after because, well...why break with tradition?

the garden gnome

20:01 / 17.10.03

in the words of buffalo bill from Silence of the Lambs

"I'd fuck me"

w1rebaby

20:03 / 17.10.03

You want to read The Man Who Folded Himself. Actually, Gerrold is one of those "great ideas, pity about the godawful writing" people, but it's a decent exploration of a particular model of time travel. And yes, he does. Lots of times. In fact, old versions of himself from alternate futures come back to have sex with younger versions of himself.

20:04 / 17.10.03

I've already had myself, and it wasn't bad. It was good enough for me to endorse the idea to other people.

gingerbop

20:12 / 17.10.03

Hmm. If I met me, i'd either
a) not look at me twice, or
b) get extremely irritated by me.

Either way, I wouldnt get to the bed stage. It'd be interesting though.

Cailín

22:13 / 17.10.03

No. I know what an ungrateful bitch I can be.

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

02:30 / 18.10.03

man, remember that one episode of buffy where there was the evil hot leather-wearing vampire Willow from the anti-buffy dimension? and evil willow totally wanted the good willow but couldn't talk her into it? because I sure do.

having sex with yourself has got to be better than, say, accidentally killing yourself and knowing not only when and where you're going to die, but that it's in a totally dumb way. I think I'd do me.

Mono

08:14 / 18.10.03

OH.HELL.YEAH. I would definitely have sex with any (adult, non-granny) past or future me.

although i'd more likely want to have sex with a clone of myself. in a labratory. or terrarium. or something.

Lea-side

14:54 / 18.10.03

i cant get out of bed unless i do.

The Falcon

14:58 / 18.10.03

Uggh. No.

Imagine that first kiss...

elthe deuro

15:50 / 18.10.03

Mmmm... two Willows....

I have to confess that I probably would, because (on another extremely geeky BtVS/Angel note) younger versions of me sort of looked like Amy Acker (Fred), and well, she's hot.

bitchiekittie

19:24 / 18.10.03

I don't know, the whole idea just comes off to me as really incestuous. I am, after all, as related to myself as much as I can be related to anyone. am I right?

plus I dress really terribly.

gingerbop

20:16 / 18.10.03

Hmm... now i think more into the practicallities of it. Even if it did get passed the meeting myself phase, we'd probably both be too feeble and shy anyway.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:26 / 19.10.03

I would all depend WHEN. If I met my 17 to 23-year-old self, for example, I like to think I'd lay my pacifism aside for a moment and give him a good kicking.

Having said that, he looked better than the current me...

Guess it would all depend on how drunk both the incarnations of me were... in which case, chances are, I would. But neither of me would remember properly, so it'd be okay.

cusm

15:32 / 20.10.03

I'd be all for doing my 17-23 year old self. Best shape I've ever been in, and what I lacked in skill I more than made up for in stamina. Only problem is, he wouldn't be into it, so it'd never work out. And I'd probably end up being too busy slapping myself for being such a stupid twit to go for it, anyway. No, its 26+ me for me, no other me will do.

Olulabelle

17:24 / 20.10.03

Isn't this just a sci-fi mutation of the high/low self esteem issue? Those who say they definitely would have sex with themselves have high self esteem at that particular point in time, those who say they definitely wouldn't have are having a bad day and have low self esteem.

So yesterday I would have shagged the arse off myself, too right. But today I find I wouldn't touch myself with the proverbial bargepole.

grant

18:43 / 20.10.03

Forget the sex, I'd want a decent backrub from myself.

And then maybe we could cook something vile together.

HCE

20:43 / 22.10.03

Yes. If I could get over being Iranian. Growing up, all the Iranians I knew were relatives, so I get a bit of an incest heebie-jeebie at the thought of sexual activity with my countryfolk.

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