Could “running game” be considered a form of sexual coercion?

Appropriate-Mango385 · 2025-05-31T04:35:44+00:00

I think everyone, in the face of their crush, "runs game" to some extent, so it would depend on how bad it is.

Slow-Narwhal486 · 2025-05-31T08:16:05+00:00

If you’re lying about something that would make a person change their mind about whether or not they’d want to sleep with you, I think that’s considered a form of coercion. However, there are varying degrees to this. Lying about an STI would be much worse than lying about a body count, in my opinion. Regardless, I think lying to get someone to do something they otherwise wouldn’t do is unethical, but people still do it, and there’s not much anyone can do to stop that

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Redhotangelxxx · 2025-05-31T14:04:16+00:00

I don't consider it sexual coercion, I just think it's shitty. At some point you gotta trust the people you sleep with and take responsibility for your choice to sleep with them, knowing they could be lying.

attendquoi · 2025-05-31T15:24:27+00:00

Yes, I consider lying coercion.

Plus, it's just pathetic.

lesliecarbone · 2025-05-31T15:48:56+00:00

I'm not sure I'd use the word coercion, but you are certainly committing some kind of fraud if you are deceiving someone into doing something that they would not do without the deception.

Outside_Memory5703 · 2025-05-31T17:12:30+00:00

I don’t

Mentathiel · 2025-06-01T22:20:20+00:00

Yes, but it's a spectrum.

Lying about something the person considers a deciding factor in whether they have sex with you on purpose to get them to have sex with you is very fucked up. This could include lying that you don't have an STD, claiming you're infertile, lying to a religious person that you've never been married and marrying them and having sex so they end up losing their virginity in sin, lying to your partner that you aren't cheating on them putting them in risk of STDs, lying that you don't want kids when you do and plan to keep one if you get pregnant, lying by omitting the knowledge that you're closely related, saying you're monogamous/poly when you're not, that you have certain intentions when you do not, Idk, there are many deeply fucked up scenarios that are just abhorrent.

Then there's lying that's pretty bad, but not as traumatic. The lie maybe makes you a more attractive partner, but it's not maybe the decisive factor in the person having sex with you, but it's a contributing one. It's still manipulative and evil, but probably less so.

And then there are small lies that we all do. Deodorant, makeup, parfume, not going on about your childhood trauma on the first date, not talking about your ex even if something makes you think of them, putting your best foot forward and being more energetic and motivated at the beginning of the relationship, little lies of omission and slowly revealing truth and more of yourself as you build trust. I don't think these lies are immoral. This cannot cover any lies that you know would be deal-breakers to your partner if they knew about them. If you have very private and personal information of that nature that you're not ready to share, you don't have to share it, but you should reject sex then. Even if you consider your partner's deal breakers ridiculous, it's not up to you to decide.

ThatBitchA · 2025-05-31T04:02:52+00:00

Yes.

Lying is a form of sexual coercion.

Title	Could “running game” be considered a form of sexual coercion?
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Date	May 31, 2025 3:49 AM UTC (1 year ago)
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