An hour or so into “The American” — a slow-moving but entertaining 2010 thriller where George Clooney plays a reclusive weapon-making maven hiding out in an Italian village — Clooney’s character tells a prostitute (I’d say she was an unrealistically good-looking prostitute, but I’ve been to Italy and many of the prostitutes I saw while there were actually dimes. There must be something in the olive oil over there. I also realize that at least 25% of them were men. I should probably end this aside right now.) he’s been seeing that she doesn’t have to “act” when she’s with him. Basically, he tells her that she doesn’t need to fake it when they’re having sex.
They eventually began a bit of a relationship, seeing each other outside of the brothel, but that exchange reminded me of how much it must suck to continually and exclusively have sex with women who are only sleeping with you because you’re paying them. I’ve written before about the ego boost that comes from pleasing a woman sexually, but when you completely remove the possibility of knowing whether her pleasure is real from the equation, sex is no different than masturbation. Actually, it’s worse than masturbation because at least with masturbation you can go raw on yourself.
Anyway, thinking about this scene and the sex for pay dynamic made me think of other types of sex you should probably try to avoid, and here’s nine more.
Pissy drunk sex
While slightly tipsy sex can be some of the best sex you’ll ever have (Why? Well, the slightly tipsyness relaxes inhibitions a bit while you still have complete control of your motor skills and dignity), super, duper drunk sex turns normal people into virgins with Parkinson’s disease. Seriously, it’s like two elephants on skateboards fighting each other with wet baseball bats. If this analogy didn’t make any sense to you, you’ve obviously never had pissy drunk sex.
But, while pissy drunk sex is bad, it’s not even close to the level of sucktitude involved when having…
Just one person happens to be drunk sex
Without getting too graphic, I’ll just say that both whiskey d*ck and whiskey p*ssy are real. And by “real” I mean “real f*cking annoying when you’re the only one who’s sober.”
Sad sex
While 0ccasional tears during sex is good, they should only occur when having a particularly intense orgasm or while getting fellated by a particularly toothy Delta; not when having to pause mid-stroke because you just can’t get over your dead hamster.
Hungry sex
Maybe it’s just me, but sex on an empty stomach is like masturbating with Old Spice High Endurance Body Wash. Good in theory until you realize God is watching you masturbate with Old Spice High Endurance Body Wash.
Shower sex
Between the balance issues, the pain of skin against wet porcelain, and the fact that hot water has a way of turning vaginas into carbon paper, there may not be a more overrated activity than having sex in the shower. Seriously, in the history of human’s having shower sex, has there ever been a time when somebody didn’t say “You know, that would have been much, much better if our horny asses just walked 5 feet to the bedroom” directly afterward?
Injured sex
You’d think that a sprained ankle or sore achilles wouldn’t make that much of a difference. You’d probably continue to think that, until you attempt to lift your girl and you end up slipping and dropping her ass first into the bed support because you can’t put any weight on your leg.
“I don’t really want to have sex with you, but I’m going to have sex with you anyway” sex
and
“I really want to have sex with you, and I’m going to, but I’m not going to act like I really want to have sex with you” sex
Listed together because it’ll be easier for me to search for and find this in the future when I’m compiling a list of “crazy sh*t women do” for a congress sub-committee.
Too great expectations sex
Ah yes, the great expectations sex. For the past two months, you both have been a sexting, sh*t talking, contrived double entendre creating mess. He’s gonna “blow your back out like Bob Backlund” and you’re gonna ride him until he sees stars, Jesus, John the Baptist, Frankie Lymon, and the ghost of Adriana from “The Sopranos.”
And then the day finally comes and, well, it’s ok but the Earth didn’t move, the moon didn’t fall, and you have lukewarm semen on your kneecap. The sex wasn’t bad, but you built expectations so high that you couldn’t help but be underwhelmed. In this sense, I guess it’s exactly like watching “The Game.”
Anyway, people of VSB, did I forget anything? Are there any other types of sex that should have made the cut?
—The Champ
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