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The Juiciest “Would You Rather” Questions For Couples

The deep, the meaningful, and the downright dirty.

by Alice Broster and Rachel Mantock
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The Juiciest “Would You Rather” Questions For Couples
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Have you ever wondered if your partner would rather live the life of a dog or a cat? What about whether they see themselves as naturally submissive or dominating in the bedroom? There’s only one way to find out, here are 45 funny, deep, sexual, and difficult “would you rather” questions to ask your partner to really get to know them.

Spending more time with a (or a potential) significant other is a pretty big step. So why waste your time falling out over Monopoly technicalities, when you can get under their skin and find out who they really are, gross preferences and all. These “would you rather” questions can be used as an icebreaker before dinner or as foreplay before bed. Just prepare yourself as you might not get the answers you were expecting.

Whether this is a longstanding relationship or you’re spending your first Christmas together, these “would you rather” questions can be used as an icebreaker before dinner or as foreplay before bed. Just prepare yourself as you might not get the answers you were expecting.

Funny “Would You Rather” Questions To Ask Your Partner

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1. Would you rather live the life of a dog or a cat?

2. Would you rather be too hot or too cold forever?

3. Would you rather go on Love Island or The Circle?

4. Would you rather not brush your teeth for a week or not shower for a week?

5. Would you rather live in a haunted house for a month or eat 12 wasps?

6. Would you rather smell like burnt rubber for the rest of your life or have the taste of burnt toast in your mouth?

7. Would you rather end every sentence with ‘I love you’ or start every sentence with ‘hey mum’?

8. Would you rather be itchy for the rest of your life or sticky?

9. Would you rather have to speak in rhymes for the rest of your life or only be able to use four-word sentences?

Deep “Would You Rather” Questions To Ask Your Partner

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1. Would you rather your partner outlive you or you outlive your partner?

2. Would you rather achieve all of your career goals but have no time for family or have all the time for family but not achieve everything you want to at work?

3. Would you rather live ten years longer with regrets or die ten years early with no regrets?

4. Would you rather give up sex or give up food?

5. Would you rather be able to change the future or the past?

6. Would you rather be 80 years old forever or five years old forever?

7. Would you rather have three great friends or 20 average friends?

8. Would you rather publish your search history across your social media or see your parent's search history?

9. Would you rather have a major pay rise or move to the place of your dreams?

Sexual “Would You Rather” Questions To Ask Your Partner

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1. Would you rather give or receive?

2. Would you rather be submissive or dominating?

3. Would you rather orgasm once a month or 70 times a day?

4. Would you rather always have sex in the dark or never be able to have sex in the dark again?

5. Would you rather spank or be spanked?

6. Would you rather have to announce whenever you’re feeling horny or never be able to tell your partner your horny again?

7. Would you rather only have sex in bed for the rest of your life or never be able to have sex in a bed again?

8. Would you rather that your flatmates heard you every time you had sex or be silent while having sex forever?

9. Would you rather sleep with your number one celebrity crush or receive $1,000?

10. Would you rather never have oral sex again, or only have oral sex forever?

11. Would you rather dress up as a different American Horror Story character for sex, every single time, or dress as Amanda Bynes’ character in She’s The Man every time, instead?

Hard “Would You Rather” Questions To Ask Your Partner

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1. Would you rather have more money or more time?

2. Would you rather have five kids or no kids?

3. Would you rather be really personally fulfilled or really professionally fulfilled?

4. Would you rather be really beautiful or really smart?

5. Would you rather speak all the languages of the world or be able to speak to animals?

6. Would you rather go back ten years into the past or go forward ten years into the future?

7. Would you rather have a photographic memory or be a leading expert on one specific area?

8. Would you rather know everything your loved ones have ever said about you or say everything you think when you think it?

9. Would you rather be infamous or unknown?

Dirty “Would You Rather” Questions To Ask Your Partner

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1. Would you rather never use deodorant again or never use toothpaste again?

2. Would you rather have to lick the bus every time you get on or never be able to use public transport again?

3. Would you rather have a thumb for a tongue or a tongue for a thumb?

4. Would you rather live in a house with 50 mice or five snakes?

5. Would you rather a child vomit on your or you vomit on a child?

6. Would you rather drink a bottle of vinegar or a bottle of expired milk?

7. Would you rather sick up slugs (Ron Weasley style) or allow spiders to crawl in your hair for an hour?

8. Would you rather lose your phone, keys, and wallet once a month or wet yourself once a month?

9. Would you rather wash your hair once a month or your body?

Equality “Would You Rather’ Questions To Ask Your Partner

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1. Would you rather have unlimited money forever, or equal rights for all genders forever, globally?

2. Would you rather dismantle the patriarchy in favour of a matriarchy, or keep things as they are?

3. Would you rather we abolish capitalism, and share resources, or be a billionaire personally?

4. Would you rather have stellar earning power forever, or a guaranteed average salary for you, and another random person, for life?

5. Would you rather eradicate the stigma of women “behaving badly”, or increase the stigma for men “behaving badly”?

6. Would you rather mandate menstrual leave worldwide, or a huge menstrual salary bonus (without leave) worldwide?

7. Would you rather follow a plant based diet, with all ingredients from overseas, or a meat inclusive diet, with everything sourced locally?

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