rabbittss wrote:
Sex and conversation? Which, unless I'm mistaken and things have changed.. doing either of which with your pets can land you in the nut house..
I've done one of those things plenty of times. And the other is conversation.

No, but I've talked to my dog plenty of times. He seemed to understand some of the Dutch language before he started going deaf. He responded to different words and tones in different ways, and he could tell names. Even if he probably didn't understand
exactly what I was saying, I think he was capable of knowing what we meant. When my mother was discussing his annual vaccinations, he could become very nervous even if we were still comfortably sitting at home.
For sex, there's always porn - and prostitutes if you're really desperate to get laid.
Prostitution is Illegal in 99.9% of the US. So it's not an option.