Well, I've been shirt-less with women I was interested in, and I wouldn't have considered it as having sex. There were too many people on-looking at that beach, I'm kind of shy. I'd consider shaving my beard (well, on occasion!), as well. ;-)
But in all seriousness, finding a good, general definition is still mostly eluding me. I can usually come up with rules that, when you reach that, you're definitely having sex, but they don't necessarily have 100% coverage. Things like "intense" making out can be subjective, and so on.
Relationships are especially elusive. The best I've come up with is "people I'd notify before having sex with someone else", knowing that it relies on a not-so-well-defined definition of having sex, and that it doesn't work for the general population (which seems to have sex with other people without notifying their partners on a frighteningly common basis, overall).
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Date: 2009-06-18 12:53 am (UTC)But in all seriousness, finding a good, general definition is still mostly eluding me. I can usually come up with rules that, when you reach that, you're definitely having sex, but they don't necessarily have 100% coverage. Things like "intense" making out can be subjective, and so on.
Relationships are especially elusive. The best I've come up with is "people I'd notify before having sex with someone else", knowing that it relies on a not-so-well-defined definition of having sex, and that it doesn't work for the general population (which seems to have sex with other people without notifying their partners on a frighteningly common basis, overall).
Bleh.