Poll time!

[rachelmanija]

[Poll #1102197]

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I am firmly of the opinion that the "getting laid before event X" thing varies from person to person, and is half superstition anyway. So the answer is: "whatever works for you."

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Or for the character, heh.

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

The "getting laid before" thing is usually no big deal one way or another unless you're stupid enough to go at it all damn night before a big performance or whatever, and it makes you stupid or incompetent because of the sleep dep.

Or so I have experienced.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that I've noticed any effect on my work performance, but I did have a mildly embarassing effect at one office job when my co-workers figured out why I would occasionally bounce in all glowing and perky at an hour of the morning when normally I staggered in clutching my coffee mug in a surly manner.

[text-isle.livejournal.com]

iawtc

[andyleggett.livejournal.com]

I would imagine being as relaxed as possible would help the performer, especially the singer... as for athletes and rebels, they are fueled by frustration, and sex should be saved for celebratory pruposes.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Depends how good the sex is (or how bad)

Orgies, yes, in the seventies. Including someone hastily running out. (In a couple of situations, that would be me, when the guys suggesting the orgies were gross enough in the single.)

Yes on awkward morning afters--but not always. Those could be fun.

[http://users.livejournal.com/solo____/]

You've read 'Drift' by Torch (Gundam Wing), yes?
Because for all that I said it's not my kink... hmmmm, that was nice.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Yes! I'm going to post a link later. It prompted this poll by being the first orgy story that I both found convincing and liked.

[willshetterly.livejournal.com]

My reaction to the orgy in Elfquest was "What the fuck?" It just seemed wrong in every possible way.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

There was an orgy in Elfquest?!

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Volume 4 of the original series, I think (it's been awhile). It was a very tasteful orgy, mind you.

It also deeply upset one mother who was reading Elfquest to her child as a bedtime story. She turned the page and WHAM. (This is why you read ahead, people.)

[heyoka.livejournal.com]

I remember Wendy's response to this as something along the lines of "...but the battle scenes were a-ok?"

[willshetterly.livejournal.com]

Toward the end of the first arc. Issue twelve? Can't remember. Just that there was an orgy before the big battle, and, I think, Leeta did Skywise, and it was too, too wrong. Head hurt now.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she did. I liked it, actually; after that it was obvious, if subtle, that both Leetah and Cutter considered Skywise as much a part of their family as they themselves, although Skywise always goes off and sleeps with other people and what have you (and fathered a later minor character in that orgy, if I recall correctly). When Cutter thinks about his family, later on in v.7, the picture is Skywise and Leetah, each with a twin asleep on them. Of course, Cutter always thought of it that way, but I thought it was a good way for Leetah to acknowledge that.

It's also the only orgy scene I can recall in a non-pornographic comic book, which is interesting.

[willshetterly.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm going to sound incredibly prudish here, but I think part of the problem with it artistically was that it *was* an orgy in a non-pornographic comic. Diane Duane has had some alternative sexuality in YA work, and I thought that was charming. But the orgy just seemed odd in Elfquest. I think it was that nothing about the culture made me expect it, and I would think that orgies as a usual part of the norm would color other interactions earlier. Hmm. Not a biggie in any case.

Oh. And I think it suffered from the usual problem of sex scenes: nothing changed during it. If you cut the scene, the reader still knows that a group of people who care about each other are facing great danger on the next day.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

The book 4 orgy scene didn't involve Leetah/Skywise, though -- it was Leetah and her old Sun Village boyfriend Rayek. The scene starts out with Rayek and Kahvi (the leader of the Go-Backs) together and Leetah and Cutter together, but Rayek gets emo and wangsty and stomps off because he can't stand seeing Leetah with the guy who took her away from him. Leetah and Cutter see that, she's clearly hurting to see him so upset, and Cutter sends her off with his blessing because Rayek needs her. Shortly afterwards, Kahvi shows up to pounce on Cutter, since they're now the only ones left without partners -- and that's not so much out-of-left-field as you might think, as one of her very first lines to Leetah earlier in that book, when she's just taken a good look at the badly-injured Cutter, was something like "So that's your lifemate? Young, nice shoulders...do you share?"

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Well, not *every* weekend.

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

*grin*

[oyceter]

I totally agree about the sleep deprivation thing. Also, I figure it depends if there will be emotional complications or not, which would be distracting.

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

Generally, if I'm stressed out enough about something that's happening the next day that I need relaxation, I am too stressed out for sex to be fun. (I also feel this way about pre-end-of-the-world sex. I mean, the world's about to end! I would not be able to focus on orgasms at that time.)

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

The random orgy thing just reminds me of Stephen King's It.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Oh God scary under-age magical orgy plus spiders and clowns DO NOT WANT.

[gnarlycranium.livejournal.com]

Well, obviously. When aliens are invading and everyone's about to die and you're only like 11 and you have no fucking clue what to do, AN ORGY WILL MAGICALLY MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER. Seriously.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

But only if one of you is a GIRL, through whom the magikkle force of love can flow. That's what those girl parts are for. Conductivity.

[gnarlycranium.livejournal.com]

Ohh! Is THAT it? I'd been wondering, that explains a lot!!

[eredien]

I think telophase is right--some people might want to have sex right then, some people might not.

As for the second question, I think it only makes sense if at least some of them have been attracted to each other previously.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Very much depends, IMO, on the characters and situation.