because I have already had a pretty fulfilling one. I would reorganise my life to find other pleasures that I enjoy to supplement it.

Definitely.

Mostly because it's never really been a priority in my life to begin with. As long as you have enough close friends so that you're not lonely, I don't think having a partner is all that important.

into creating world peace.

Actually fuck that, murderous rampage.

it wouldnt bother me at all.

but then i have been in a relationship that has been unromantic for some time now,

i could see my attitude changing, but its really not THAT important.

good friends are much more important.

the possibility of any future relationship? That sounds pretty nasty.

However, depending on the circumstances, it could be strangely liberating. Maybe. Probably not.

if i knew 100% that such things were completely not an option

i'd try and get some sort of drugs or surgery to completely kill ny libido and try and look on the bright side as in it being something less to worry about and waste time on.

but i cant really imagine how you'd get in that situation.

but, personally, and right now, it wouldn't be a massive problem.

If I don't have sex for a week or two, I start to have pretty rude dreams. Actually, really rude. Sometimes they're better than real-life sex (SOMETIMES!).

It's a bit of a relief because it can calm you down. But I'm guessing this won't happen for the rest of my life.

I realise that this is a bit gross, by my mother was always a bit of a nymphomaniac, and she was happy recently when the menopause killed her sex drive. Mis-matched sex drives can cause so many problems in relationships, even if you think you've found your soul-mate, which is what I think my mum and stepdad have.

In short: I wouldn't like it. But I'd cope. I think human contact such as hugs are a bit more important in the long term.

I suppose that's irrelevant as you're merely stating a hypothetical question, so yes I suppose there'd be no option but to try and focus on everything else. After all, one's never lonely with a rubber duck! (Well, or a rampant rabbit.)

The details don't really matter. Sorry - I realise it's a bit unfair to not post AND tell.

affection and stuff is more important than sex.

no romance though - that would be the killer. i can so without the physical, but the emotional.. actually i'm ever worse at the emotional, so fuck it.

i'd just divert my energies elsewhere, saving the world or something. or disappear into the internet more than now. it would be sad though knowing you could never be intimate with another human being in a romantic or sexual way, but you'd deal with it

I would concentrate on becoming a replicant and having complicated surgery to achieve perfection

sure it would be rubbish and i imagine it would depress me for a while, but not to the point of suicide or for it to change me into a bitter, twisted and heartless shit.

Or maybe it would.

Nothing medical, i'm just repulsive to women.

when I thought "relationships" were important.

Being, as I am, in a position where an odd array of circumstances, including illness, appear to be preventing me from getting into a romantic/sexual relationship ever again anyway.

That said, in my case (can't speak for ZsaZsa's friend as I don't know the circumstances), a lot of its psychological and of course I probably could have a romantic/sexual relationship if I just got over/come to terms with some stuff that I've so far managed to do.

I'm not honestly sure I truly believe that there is such a set of circumstances that absolutely precludes both (although I accept circumstances can preclude both in someone's mind).

and wouldn't tone down the terrible feeling of finding something like this out, but I think I'd be about as adaptable as anyone else; which I'd say is pretty adaptable.

There's a great study out there where they got people to predict how awful they'd feel a year after getting a terrible diagnosis; although people predicted that their lives would be much worse, people who actually were diagnosed still perceived their own happiness as unchanged.

It's an oddly comforting idea.

I have a pretty normal sex drive, but I'd still go out of my mind if I couldn't ever get any. I'm with alcxxk with somehow trying to get rid of my libido.

I think what would be the most difficult part is the other person in the relationship. Your friend would have to find a very understanding person.

that would be very hard, especially if my boyfriend/husband was able to have sex. i'd worry they'd get what i couldn't give them elsewhere.
but i could DEAL with that.
never having romance again, NO WAY.

but the last two months my relationship really changed, and again (apologies for vagueness) I wouldn't like to get too specific, but after a year of occasionally difficult (she's bi-polar) but generallty really close relationship I'm now having to be the same support structure but without the actual intimacy. I've been here before with having to deal with those times she's just been too down to deal with the relationship stuff but now I'm kind of feeling on 'stand-by' in a way, like I'm still expected to keep fidelity and right now that's OK because I still feel really strongly but that may turn into resentment if there's no resolution. Would it be wrong of me to move on, when I feel ready to?

I also get annoyed when people use the internet for lenghty problem posts, I hope you'll indulge.