After reading through this whole thread, I find it interesting to note that only one other person shares my sentiment on the subject. I understand someone's eyes getting a little bit wet if we mess something up and one of us winds up hurt, but I would be so very turned off if either I or my partner cried during sex that I wouldn't be able to finish. I don't think that I'd be able to have sex again for a while, either, and I'm generally preferential to two or three times a day. Neither my partner or I see sex as an insanely emotional thing - we love each other, but sex isn't some grand expression of that, it's just sex - and I wouldn't be interested in being with someone who did. I don't enjoy orgasms all that much, so they definitely don't bring me to tears. Though I do cry on occasion, I absolutely loathe it and would have my tear ducts cauterized if that wouldn't cause so many other issues with my eyes. My partner isn't much of a crier either, and I prefer it that way. I'm not really on board with the whole "crying is a super healthy and natural thing" schtick - when people get so angry that they have to express it, those around them don't usually tell them to just "let it all out" unless they're in a movie. In fact, people who get angry often or to an extreme are referred to therapy. I wouldn't think that someone was weak or whatever the old-fashioned stigma against it is, I just don't think that it's healthy to encourage people to cry. I'm not talking like, the eyes-welling-up-becaus e-of-overwhelming-feel ings sort of thing, which passes in a moment, but if you're emotional enough to cry/laugh/rage/whateve r in an uncontrollable way, something is probably wrong. To me, there isn't much of a difference between bawling like a toddler and punching someone in the face repeatedly. You might feel better afterwards, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you dealt with your emotions in a healthy way.

I understand that each case is unique and that this whole post goes quite contrarily to essentially six pages worth of a thread that's been around for years. I think that it's a cop out to post "no offense meant to any of you, I love you all!!!!! xoxoxox," because assuming that I have to apologize for having an opinion would be rather insulting to the people of this forum. I just thought that I'd share my opinions on the subject despite the fact that most people don't bother reading the contents of threads this long, because that way if anyone who thinks along the same line as I comes across this, they won't have to think that they're alone.