I’ve heard a lot of hypothetical questions about clone-sex over the years. (Can you tell I’m friends with a lot of sex nerds?) Sometimes people will wonder if fucking your clone would be considered incest or masturbation. Sometimes we debate the consent ethics of clone-sex. Sometimes the question is just “Would you fuck your clone, if you could?” – to which my answer is always a resounding no, because I don’t find myself sexually attractive and wouldn’t be sexually compatible with myself. (It’s funny for a professional masturbator to say she’s not sexually compatible with herself, but hey, you know what I mean…)
That being said, when I do occasionally permit myself the indulgence/horror of picturing it, one other thing that worries me about sex with my hypothetical clone is that I might not be able to get her off.
See, imagine that I lay her down in my (our?) bed, and get her all turned on by watching the porn I (we) like, and talking dirty about the fantasies I’m (we’re) into, and then I start touching her clit in the exact ways that I know feel good for me (us), the ways I’ve practiced and honed over decades… and then it doesn’t work. What then?
It’s not as impossible as it may sound. Even setting aside the fact that a clone grown from birth would have her own set of preferences forged in the fire of life experience, what if she did like all the same things as me, and I still couldn’t get her off? What if, without the ability to directly feel what each touch feels like from moment to moment (as with masturbation), I couldn’t accurately read her body language and the ascent of her pleasure well enough to make her come? Oh god, the horror!!