Poll: So, you're the last man (woman) on Earth, left with everyone of the opposite sex...

[I can't enter my old name]

Yeah, you would probably end up as a caged flesh-stick being milked, but being so important and taking advantage of desperation, you might still have some weight to throw around. Demand almost anything, insist you only be milked manually, all sorts of depraved things. The best chefs in the world creating immaculately prepared sandwiches, a legion to do your laundry, and never a cold bed at night.

Well, you'd probably have enough weight to throw around to get yourself a nice house and good food, but weight that would immediately disappear the second you started demanding things, let alone depraved things. I imagine that's the point when they drug you, cut off all your limbs, attach you to a feeding tube, and shove a cattle prod up your ass whenever they want sperm. And then you get to sit for decades knowing that you could have had a very comfortable life if you didn't stupidly assume that you had even the slightest bit of power in this world.

I know ruining a popular men's fantasy is fun for some, but I really doubt humanity would do something like strapping you in and milking you till you die, as some people have suggested in this thread. This reminds me too much of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. I mean, imagine doing that to a panda, let alone a human. If that happens, then the people who made that decision, or the majority if it was a democratic decision, have lost their humanity and are truly the sickest people alive. This is a kind of repugnant conclusion, or in other words, great suffering is allowed, if you keep adding people it all balances out.

I think if you were the last man alive, you would be a symbol for humanity's survival to all the women left. You would be very popular indeed, obviously because men are in very high demand, but also because you are a peculiarity. I would say you would achieve a cult-like status, so if you were to become kidnapped and milked to death, imagine telling the populace that the most important person in the world "disappeared."

All the women left would want to see you, just to know you haven't died yet, because if you die before there are more reproductive males, gg humanity. So you would have some power, like a pampered prince, but most likely you would be a figurehead. They would do everything in their power to keep you from running away or dying. If you demanded anything unreasonable, you would be treated like an unreasonable guest, and nothing more. Even if you were to threaten to kill yourself, all they would to do is threaten to put you in a straight jacket and wank you manually, and nobody wants that. Once there are more men, they would be kept around more like precious cattle, until the majority of the population dies and things go back to 50/50.

 

[MHR]

Yeah, you would probably end up as a caged flesh-stick being milked, but being so important and taking advantage of desperation, you might still have some weight to throw around. Demand almost anything, insist you only be milked manually, all sorts of depraved things. The best chefs in the world creating immaculately prepared sandwiches, a legion to do your laundry, and never a cold bed at night.

Well, you'd probably have enough weight to throw around to get yourself a nice house and good food, but weight that would immediately disappear the second you started demanding things, let alone depraved things. I imagine that's the point when they drug you, cut off all your limbs, attach you to a feeding tube, and shove a cattle prod up your ass whenever they want sperm. And then you get to sit for decades knowing that you could have had a very comfortable life if you didn't stupidly assume that you had even the slightest bit of power in this world.

Well demand was the wrong word. You'd have to have some base-level manipulation skills here. If you've screwed up so badly that all that shit happens, then you were pretty much the worst example of stupidity and hubris that existed, and the'd probably just kill you and be done with it rather than risk your kids ruining the human race.

And wtf, where does all the torment come from? As the only guy left alive, the last thing you'd want to do is start tearing him apart like that, it's dangerous. At the very least, that'd shorten his lifespan.

 

[Bilious Green_v1legacy]

My neckbeard would protect me. I haven't spent this long developing my wizard powers to lose it all now!

 

[Wary Wolf]

One problem with creatures that reproduce asexually is that they have no genetic diversity.

You are essentially going to cut your ability to grow as a species. As such, the species likely won't survive it. Humans are adaptable, but you're essentially taking a massive leap backwards in genetic viability.

Particularly considering as well that we are a highly social species that perhaps needs the whole: "I do things to attract a mate." as a predominant motivator in life.

As for what I'd do personally? Dunno... Rub my exes' noses in it?

Realize that I can never have anything resembling normalcy again.

Probably eventually suicide.

 

[CyanCat47_v1legacy]

I would study to become a biologist who specializes in biological engineering and figure out how to make synthetic sperm cells. If i was a woman i would try to do the same in reverse but i would probably be captured by rednecks or republicans or whatever and used as a reproduction slave. any daughters i might have would suffer the same fate after me. The more i think about this scenario, the more it turns into a seriously bleak post-apocalyptic novel

 

[CyanCat47_v1legacy]

I am rather socially awkward and have a number of hang ups about sex. This would not go well.

Same here, and i'm not even into women. Humanity would be desperate to survive and theonly man alive would either have to completely surrender his will or have it taken away from him and harvested for cells

 

[weirdee]

Cauterizing blade. Blanket of night. One year to rectify the sins of man.

 

[Evonisia]

As a gay man with very little interest in being used as a semen dispenser for the rest of my days - I'd fucking run for the hills and pray I'm not found. It's bad enough apocalyptic levels of death have occurred. I'd probably console myself trying to think of loopholes that wouldn't work out - like hopefully the male babies of women who were pregnant at the time didn't die even though they probably did.

 

[votemarvel]

Reminds me of the Sliders episode "Love Gods" where most of the men on Earth were wiped out and only a few hundred remain. I don't remember the quote exactly but the Professor said "If these people were more interested in my brain cell count than my sperm count, I could repopulate the planet in a generation and a half."

It was a world where IVF had never been discovered. It was interesting to see how the loss of one medical technology led to the remaining men being used as nothing more than breeding stock.

Ah for the days when Sliders was more than movie rip-off of the week.

 

[lionsprey]

assuming all sperm banks and such are destroyed and assuming making artificial sperm is impossible and assuming i wont be strapped to some sort of milking machine and assuming all milking is done "manually" then it might be fun for a week however after that i recon it would get boring pretty quickly. i would either spend my days being bored or get really good at multitasking assuming they let me play games etc whilst being "milked".

although it would be interesting to explore how a society that has survived such an ordeal would develop.

 

[Guffe]

I would just look at the whole world turn gay...
I doubt any woman would want me even if I was the last man on earth.
So if this were to happen, the ladies can have another 50 years on earth and then humankind is dead.
Something like this?

 

[Gorrath]

Spoiler: Ew, no

I imagine this is more of a straight-guy fantasy, because it really really would not work out for anyone else. Be used as a baby oven by a bunch of asshole dudes? I'd rather literally jump off a bridge. So I guess that's my answer. It's not sexy.

Spoiler: Me

Wiping out half the population would kick the guts out of society. It'd not be a sexy place to be. No government, no organisation, mass panic, no essential services and piles of corpses everywhere.

Also this. This is less "sexy harem situation" and more "terrifying dystopia".

Can't it be both? Terrifying sexy harem dystopia? When I get around to forming a band, I'm total naming it that. This isn't just a straight guy fantasy either. I have seen things to convince me that there are some straight women who rather like this fantasy too with the genders reversed. I imagine the reality of it would be terrifying though, especially for a woman.

 

[the December King]

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I get it- I mean, I think you're saying that if the last person, be it man or woman, were demanding shit and being some sort of weird pervert/abusive asshole, then the surviving gender could lop their limbs off and make them an incubator/sperm bank. Wasn't that actually done to women in Battlestar at one point, by the Cylons? And the blood banks in Daybreakers aren't that far removed in concept.

And I mean they certainly could do that... Speculative fiction can be pretty dark or horrific, as well as erotic, or euphoric, etc. And the thought of one sex being destroyed by disease is monstrous from the get- go.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Have i just been transported back to secondary school? Hearing boy's fantasies explained as if it was the greatest thing since cheese on toast? I suppose this sort of situation gets rid of all that low self esteem and jealousy that plagues real life males. How appealing on a surface level. There are plenty female biologists, they can find ways to reproduce without my sorry sack requiring regular extracts. Plus i would disguise myself as the opposite sex to walk amongst them as their own, without fear of repercussions. Only allowing one trusted soul to know my dark secret. Actually, maybe it's best not to tell anyone and leave it to the scientists to figure out. If there is little progress, i shall give my body to research. There really isn't anything sexy about this idea for me. Isn't there a current TV series pretty much called The Last Guy on Earth? Which is about precisely this situation? It looked crap, go watch it.

 

[Souplex]

Just food for thought, but if there were only one female left, even if they were kept on a constant pregnancy cycle with a different dude every time, there probably wouldn't be enough to maintain genetic diversity, and we'd all be completely inbred in like 3 generations.
With a male the reproduction rate 1~ (Not factoring in infertility, twins etc.) every 9 months per willing female, (Which is apparently a large number in this scenario) so there would be enough that when your sons are old enough they could do the same until the genes have diversified enough for it not to be an issue.

 

[Reasonable Atheist]

I see no choice, i mist fulfill my duty to humanity.

I shal be snoo snoo by the large women, then the petite women, then the most beautiful women, then the large women again.

 

[Lightknight]

The dude is being incredibly selfish if he doesn't want to continue the human race because of anything other than they are simply horrible people.

Like "Y the last man"? The women in that series who were left didn't deserve to continue their species. So if he'd just said, "Nope, I'm out" then sure. At least there'd be a subjective evaluation of the outcome of his actions and like it or not it's not a selfish reason.

But just because the dude has a girlfriend and want to see her first? Haha, it wouldn't be a paragon choice to decide not to perpetuate the species regardless of her comments. At that point the "paragon" is just being dumb.

Not only that, but I'm sure he could just leave a couple samples at the bank and let them get to work on their own if he were really that bent out of shape about doing an incredibly good thing himself and saving the human race like a man.

A scenario where the only surviving person is a woman would be a lot more dangerous for the human race. Inbreeding isn't always an inevitability but your odds of avoiding it improve drastically the wider the base you get. Even with only two remaining survivors you should potentially be able to save humanity by having enough children to where some normal children come out of the process and can themselves over-procreate so that enough normal children survive and diversify genetically. So even with one woman you could propagate the human species but what a terrible life it'd be for her for the next 16 years or so (assuming she has a girl and procreation with people under 18 no longer becomes a thing). But the key to humanity's survival would be her producing as many children as quickly as possible and hopefully to have as many females as possible (assuming a non-zero number of males would still be fertile once they're of age). Even if she just manages to have two child bearing females then she'd have done her job but the more she has the better chance the human race has.

Essentially, a male protagonist would be looking at a life of partying and chaffing whereas a female protagonist would be looking at a life of constant pregnancy.

 

[the December King]

The dude is being incredibly selfish if he doesn't want to continue the human race because of anything other than they are simply horrible people.

Like "Y the last man"? The women in that series who were left didn't deserve to continue their species. So if he'd just said, "Nope, I'm out" then sure. At least there'd be a subjective evaluation of the outcome of his actions and like it or not it's not a selfish reason.

But just because the dude has a girlfriend and want to see her first? Haha, it wouldn't be a paragon choice to decide not to perpetuate the species regardless of her comments. At that point the "paragon" is just being dumb.

Not only that, but I'm sure he could just leave a couple samples at the bank and let them get to work on their own if he were really that bent out of shape about doing an incredibly good thing himself and saving the human race like a man.

A scenario where the only surviving person is a woman would be a lot more dangerous for the human race. Inbreeding isn't always an inevitability but your odds of avoiding it improve drastically the wider the base you get. Even with only two remaining survivors you should potentially be able to save humanity by having enough children to where some normal children come out of the process and can themselves over-procreate so that enough normal children survive and diversify genetically. So even with one woman you could propagate the human species but what a terrible life it'd be for her for the next 16 years or so (assuming she has a girl and procreation with people under 18 no longer becomes a thing). But the key to humanity's survival would be her producing as many children as quickly as possible and hopefully to have as many females as possible (assuming a non-zero number of males would still be fertile once they're of age). Even if she just manages to have two child bearing females then she'd have done her job but the more she has the better chance the human race has.

Essentially, a male protagonist would be looking at a life of partying and chaffing whereas a female protagonist would be looking at a life of constant pregnancy.

I understand that I'll never understand what it's like to be pregnant, let alone pregnant for 16 or some years, let alone having no say in the matter. But, provided that all parties understood the dire nature of the situation at hand ( and I know it might be naive of me), but I'd like to think that the last woman would get (or at least be given the option) to choose her suitors, be kept like a queen, never want for any material goods, have droves of male servants for anything she needs, etc. And I would also hope that, after she served the race through to menopause, she would still be given the incredible amount of respect and admiration she would have rightfully earned as the Mother of the next generation and savior of the race.

 

[Phasmal]

I understand that I'll never understand what it's like to be pregnant, let alone pregnant for 16 or some years, let alone having no say in the matter. But, provided that all parties understood the dire nature of the situation at hand ( and I know it might be naive of me), but I'd like to think that the last woman would get (or at least be given the option) to choose her suitors, be kept like a queen, never want for any material goods, have droves of male servants for anything she needs, etc. And I would also hope that, after she served the race through to menopause, she would still be given the incredible amount of respect and admiration she would have rightfully earned as the Mother of the next generation and savior of the race.

Speaking as a woman, ew. No. Yikes. Squick.

Death first, bye bye humanity, it was nice knowing you.

Can't it be both? Terrifying sexy harem dystopia? When I get around to forming a band, I'm total naming it that. This isn't just a straight guy fantasy either. I have seen things to convince me that there are some straight women who rather like this fantasy too with the genders reversed. I imagine the reality of it would be terrifying though, especially for a woman.

A lot of people don't actually want their "fantasies" to come true. And I seriously doubt many women dream of being forcibly impregnated over and over.