gwern comments on Solved Problems Repository - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 27 March 2013 04:51AM

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Comment author: MixedNuts 28 March 2013 11:22:09PM 4 points [-]

How do y'all have sex without asking at some point? Do you just kinda follow a script and try to guess the other person's script from their body language and hope that you get it right enough that they don't have to stop and correct you, and that your default ideas of sex more or less match? And once sex is underway, do you switch to words, or have some other method for requesting things, or just have the same kind of sex every time?

Or am I mistaken about what "asking" covers? I'm counting both asking after a makeout session and commencing sex five seconds later, and asking "Wanna meet up five days from now and do these sexual things?" and then initiating those things on the assumption you're working from the same script.

Comment author: gwern 28 March 2013 11:34:06PM 11 points [-]
Comment author: MixedNuts 29 March 2013 12:42:24AM 0 points [-]

But... at some point you do ask if they are a Soviet spy too!

Comment author: gwern 29 March 2013 02:33:52PM 3 points [-]

If your tradecraft is good enough, you never need explicitly ask. The First Directorate expects its agents to be better, da? That sort of incompetence will get you thrown in the Lubyanka dungeons!