Stay alive if no man on earth was sexually or physically attracted to you in any way?

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Doesn’t apply to me but curious as friends were discussing this the other night. Answers from women only - would you stay alive/be able to enjoy life if literally NO man on earth was sexually or physically attracted to you/turned on by you in any way, shape or form? And why?

Yes , I don’t really care now and honestly that’s so freeing

My mother still cares and it’s just so limiting

Yes that sounds lovely.

Why do you seem so incapable of comprehending that not all women’s sole purpose in life is to appeal to men and have sex? It’s a very narrow view of what life is about.

Are your friends really young? Or just not have much else going on?

I enjoy feeling attractive (although middle aged now, so less abs less), but increasingly I don't actually care whether men find me attractive.

Being attractive is just a biological way of getting us a mate. Not sure I care anymore. I want to be seen as good at my job. I'd also like to know some clever men. They're increasingly rare.

Christ yes!! My happiness does not depend on a man. Well I have 3 adult sons and a male dog who make me incredibly happy

I put on a dress and makeup tonight for myself, because I like to, I was meeting a friend, no men were involved whatsoever.

Lots of women don’t wear makeup or dresses ever, that’s totally their choice too, and not necessarily linked to whether or not a man finds them attractive.

Women aren’t just here to dress pretty for men, what a narrow concept.

I haven't had a relationship for more than ten years and I think those hormones have been switched off. I find the occasional man attractive, but I'm not really interested in sex anymore. And romantic love now seems kind of fake, like an illusion produced by nature to encourage people to reproduce.

So I'd be absolutely fine!

I stopped wearing make-up during lockdown and find this very freeing. I put it on on for special occasions and job interviews and that's about it. Today, I wore leggings and an old T-shirt, because they're comfortable.

I feel this so much these days! I was wondering if its an age thing as I'm feeling it now or whether a societal result. (In regards to romantic love being fake)

On both sides, I've never seen it in an honest form from a partner. (In sickness or health) or even from myself, i couldn't imagine feeling a romantic unconditional devotion to a person. I haven't observed it either. (Although my pool of observational data is very limited 😂)

As to the original question, I would live quite happily, I haven't experienced being attractive to men for many years not even my DH 😂 I am old and tierd it isn't even something I think much about. I find lots of other things and ways to feel my own value.

I assume vibrators are available?

Don’t see the issue, then 😀

I'd find it upsetting if men didn't like me as a person, but not upsetting if I wasn't physically or sexually attractive.

I don't have a sex drive anyway at present and am not in the mood for cuddles.

There are hills to be climbed, seas to be swum in and ice cream to be eaten so I would be fine.

Wow. What a stupid question. Imagine this being so central to your identity

I have been very attractive and then - for several years thanks to huge steroid swelling and medication side effects and illness - very much so unattractive men yelled at me in the street

Honestly, my happiness just isn't based on that, it's based on my friends and children and books and dog and nature and hobbies and volunteering...

This is the only scenario of OP's that I have some doubts about. We'd drive each other nuts. Not because we're all women, but because we're very different people.

Also, where are my and DSis's kids?

I smell an InCel.....

Happy to share a house with you!

Fuck off with "cuddles" from anyone who isnt my child!

Yeah. As long as I didn't have to rely on them for protection in the first 6-ish months. Takes a while, but most men actually see you as a person after a while.

I have no time for anyone who needs "a while" to see me as a person. Either I am, or I am not. And if I am not....neither are they.

And could you expand on "rely on them for protection"? What are you referring to?

Protection? From what

How would this come to pass? is it that I need to be so utterly repellent that no man would entertain it? Cos I do think that’d be unachievable - if there was a woman entirely made of substances scraped off the bottom of school desks some guy would probably give it a birl, if only so he could say down the fives that he’d fucked a woman made of chewing gum and snotters. There is no human woman, alive or dead, that some fella, somewhere, wouldn’t at least fleetingly consider banging. I actually think lack of attraction might be a bonus to some of them.

So if the offer is to be so repellent that literally no living man would consider it, I’m going to say no cos I’d have to be pretty fucking seriously gross. Not even rigor mortis can do it as it stands right now.

If however, you mean, would I be okay if all men on earth were under some spell that rendered me and only me completely undesirable, but I didn’t also have to be decomposing/made of dried mucus - well, see above. There is no achievement in being fucked. They want us to believe there is, it’s very clever, I applaud the confidence trick, it’s a great little money maker if nothing else, but if you were handing out superpowers I’d rather have actual invisibility.

Sounds like a lovely peaceful life tbh

Couldn't care less.
Men are so selfish, take so much and bring nothing to the table.

All, most of my friends are fellas, I could cope, back to Brighton I go..

to paraphrase " do or do not.."

My God, I’d be thrilled. Men and their predatory bullshit have harmed me since I was about 9 or 10 years old. I’d have had a much better life, and grown up more confident and fearless if I hadn’t had their horrible stares and behavior to deal with.
I would be so happy to be free of them. To be invisible to them. What a dream. I look forward to the day I’m too old for them to bother me any more.

Oh no @Newnamehiwhodis, that's shit man x