Are you feeling a little randy?

July 21, 2007 6:57 PM

I count 7 sex-related questions on askme today. What's up with that? Desirous of titillation, I frequently check the 'sex' tag for askme. For weeks it's been fairly devoid of new questions. Then, bam, today... everybody wants laid. Is it seasonal? Or is it just folks who're triggered to write a sex question by seeing one earlier?
posted by Netzapper to MetaFilter-Related at 6:57 PM (37 comments total)

I suspect your final question is the right one. Presumably those questions are tough ones for the asker, but if they see others doing it, it might be easier to take the risk themselves?
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 7:00 PM on July 21, 2007

It's Saturday, and people would rather ask sex questions at home than at work? Wouldn't account for the other weekends, of course, but I'm sure that's got at least a little to do with it.
posted by frobozz at 7:02 PM on July 21, 2007

I noticed this, bizzare. People need to stop thinking about sex so much.
posted by corpse at 7:04 PM on July 21, 2007

I noticed this, bizzare. People need to stop thinking about sex so much.

Pfft. Think of it more!
posted by Netzapper at 7:05 PM on July 21, 2007

Anonymous questions accumulate in a queue and then get posted in batches, so they throw things off.
posted by ludwig_van at 7:06 PM on July 21, 2007

Perhaps a brisk rogering is in order.
posted by Saucy Intruder at 7:20 PM on July 21, 2007 [7 favorites]

Perhaps a brisk rogering is in order.

For several of these people. Let's hope they take our advice, because we are true gods of the bedroom and those who do not take our advice will remain unfulfilled until the day they die.


posted by parmanparman at 7:25 PM on July 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

Well, the anonymous ones get all posted at once, because they get posted by an admin. (Right?) So that's why those get bunched up. Plus, hey, it's Saturday night! Lotsa lonely people!!!!

Sorry... gotta go... have to post an anonymous AskMe.
posted by The Deej at 7:30 PM on July 21, 2007

I actually haven't posted to AskMe recently, but I would like to get laid, now that you mention it.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 7:34 PM on July 21, 2007

None of the Anonymous Askers saw the other questions before submitting their own, since they all went into the queue. Must just be some sort of strange coincedence.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:43 PM on July 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

Then, bam, today... everybody wants laid.

Except for those who want not laid.
posted by L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg at 7:45 PM on July 21, 2007

Sex being a recurring topic in AnonAskMe is no surprise - often people don't want their real username/name/email tied up with potentially embarassing questions. Add that to the need for an admin to batch-approve (I think) anonymous questions, and that might account for some of the trend.
posted by djgh at 7:57 PM on July 21, 2007

...something about a brisk rogering?

[NOT A ROGERIST]
posted by blue_beetle at 8:02 PM on July 21, 2007

L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg: "Then, bam, today... everybody wants laid.

Except for those who want not laid."

You that this guy and that guy should switch?
posted by octothorpe at 8:03 PM on July 21, 2007

Somebody slipped us some Spanish MeFly.
posted by jonmc at 8:18 PM on July 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

I thought that was pretty striking too.
posted by serazin at 8:19 PM on July 21, 2007

Well, the Portland meetup was a week ago, so everyone who slept with each other last weekend now has to deal with the fallout, see?
posted by blacklite at 8:26 PM on July 21, 2007

Sex without love is an empty experience. But, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best. -- Woody Allen
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 8:27 PM on July 21, 2007

I noticed this, bizzare. People need to stop thinking about sex so much.
posted by corpse

Easy for you to say: you're a corpse!
posted by milarepa at 8:31 PM on July 21, 2007

Sex without love is an empty experience.

Of course it is, sex happens mostly in your mind

/rimshot
posted by jonmc at 8:37 PM on July 21, 2007

Maybe we're all just sex fiends.

[humps computer monitor]
posted by orange swan at 9:00 PM on July 21, 2007

I noticed X. What's up with that?

Lather, rinse, repeat.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:15 PM on July 21, 2007

Profit!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:15 PM on July 21, 2007

That summer heat.
posted by solipsophistocracy at 9:44 PM on July 21, 2007

That Spanish Flea post the other day pupated. QED.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:58 PM on July 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

Mmm, pupation....

Uh, wait--I mean, nevermind.
posted by Ms. Saint at 10:08 PM on July 21, 2007

It's AnonyMe crazyland here this weekend and I don't know what's up with that either. It makes me think of this.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:24 PM on July 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

Well, watching a guy drink orange robot jizz certainly put a few questions in my mind.
posted by dreamsign at 10:46 PM on July 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

everybody get naked right now.

I'm naked.

right now.

i'm not kidding
posted by Avenger at 4:51 AM on July 22, 2007

I noticed this, bizzare. People need to stop thinking about sex so much.
posted by corpse

Easy for you to say: you're a corpse!

Oh, that's such a stereotype. I'll have you know that every corpse I'm personally acquainted with gets plenty of sex.
posted by Lentrohamsanin at 5:21 AM on July 22, 2007 [1 favorite]

MetaFIlter: PEOPLE ARE STILL HAVING SEX
posted by Smart Dalek at 6:24 AM on July 22, 2007

Netzapper your zipper is down.
posted by Sailormom at 10:05 AM on July 22, 2007

this is the little-known principle of simultaneity in action. it works with buses too, you can wait half an hour for a bus and suddenly two or three will come along in rapid succession. if you're camping by the side of a remote road which only gets one car a day in each direction, the two cars will usually go past each other right next to your campsite. whenever you pick a flower, a star in the sky twinkles in sympathy for it.
posted by bruce at 10:20 AM on July 22, 2007

plate of shrimp
posted by 235w103 at 2:19 PM on July 22, 2007

no, plate of beans
posted by jonmc at 3:09 PM on July 22, 2007

I actually haven't posted to AskMe recently, but I would like to get laid, now that you mention it.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 10:34 PM on July 21 [+] [!]

You did that on purpose, didn't you!
posted by artifarce at 5:32 PM on July 22, 2007

...and folks who see seven sex-questions are triggered to post one in the grey.
posted by pompomtom at 9:36 PM on July 23, 2007