Comments on: Can Stephen Hawking have sex?

Question: Can Stephen Hawking have sex?

gelcap — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:17:23 -0800

Can Stephen Hawking have sex?

Help me settle a drunken bet. I have staked $100 on my belief that while physicist Stephen Hawking is one of the world's great thinkers, as well as pretty much the most inspiring guy around, he is not capable of penetrating and ejaculating inside a woman. You know, with his penis. Since the bet was made, about a month ago, i've been presented with various facts and theories that suggest i may be wrong. The strongest is the following:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/31/1075340892403.html

But still, it's hardly conclusive. Does anyone have any actual information?

By: greycap

greycap — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:39:51 -0800

"Motor neurone disease does not affect sexual ability or the ability to have an erection, and orgasm will remain unchanged" (link goes to PDF).

By: Paragon

Paragon — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:41:40 -0800

Do you mean now, or ever? He does have a couple of children, and I've never heard it suggested that they were adopted or artificially inseminated.

By: porpoise

porpoise — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:44:14 -0800

Not Stephen Hawking specifically, but the Onuf's nucleus in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which Stephen Hawking is afflicted, is not typically atypical. While Onuf's nucleus is primarily responsible for urinary and faecal continence, it is also involved in muscular contractions during male orgasm.

By: gelcap

gelcap — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:51:25 -0800

Greycap, the trouble with that is that Hawking is thought to be the longest surviving victim of MLS, I think ever. Most sufferers are dead within five years of diagnosis. As I understand it, very few of them have ever lived to see Hawking's current state of decrepitude.

Paragon, yes I meant now.

By: exogenous

exogenous — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:11:32 -0800

I think porpoise meant "Onuf's nucleus ... is not typically affected."

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:17:24 -0800

gelcap writes "Greycap, the trouble with that is that Hawking is thought to be the longest surviving victim of MLS, I think ever. Most sufferers are dead within five years of diagnosis. As I understand it, very few of them have ever lived to see Hawking's current state of decrepitude."

Well, if you're going to consider Hawking (and particularly, Hawking at this exact point in time) a unique case, there are really only one or two people in the world who can answer this question to your satisfaction, aren't there? I doubt they're reading, and if they are reading, I doubt they'll answer.

By: gelcap

gelcap — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:25:54 -0800

alright, i didn't mean now. i meant in his current state, defined, say, as in the last decade.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:44:48 -0800

Stephen Hawking has a YahooAnswers account. Perhaps you could try there.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:57:52 -0800

Well he's 65 years old now. Assuming his sexual ability was unhindered by ALS, I suppose ED might be the more important factor in answering this question.

By: reformedjerk

reformedjerk — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:09:49 -0800

Family Guy says yes.

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:53:30 -0800

Why only a woman? I volunteer to go down on him, and find out if his bits function.

By: StrikeTheViol

StrikeTheViol — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:14:14 -0800

I have CP, myself, and having met people with ALS, most people have no idea to what length the male mind will go to, in order get laid. Having married his younger, allegedly abusive nurse, I can assure you it was at least on his mind in the past decade.