To think it's inappropriate for parents to use sexualised humour around their 18+ children?

Don't buy cards against humanity OP. Your head will explode!

Yes it’s really good. But if you find a beaver joke between parents and their 19yo inappropriate you’ll be in for a shock if you play with young adults (or my 75 year old mum)

Exactly.

Gosh a beaver joke. How shocking.

I am interested in how others feel about this topic.

I don't feel comfortable with it, I feel very strongly about it and was very curious as to how others felt.

It's not the joke that I feel uncomfortable with. It's parents/children relationship sharing these jokes with each other that I personally find strange. It's just something I wasn't brought up with, or would ever do with my own kids.

Happy to hear others views and feelings on the topic, even if I don't agree. It was the point of my post for me. Really interested to see the end poll.

This is exactly how I feel about it.

Playing with my 22 & 24 year olds plus my 75 year old mother was an eye opener 😂

My kids are early 20s and I wouldn't do it.

It would gross me out and I wouldn't like it, but my DH would probably think it was fine. I think it's just what sort of upbring you have.

I think there's an element of the parent-child relationship that continues into adulthood that makes it inappropriate. My parents aren't my caregivers any more but they're still my parents. They're not my friends.

Jesus Christ.

Ah the MN snobbery and pearl clutching...

"His favourite animal is the beaver" isn't even that bad, like it feels like one of the slightly more risqué jokes a panto might make, one that (not uptight, prudish, pearl clutching) parents will crease at and kids will think is just about the animal

We are a sexual innuendo family. We were doing something the other day and my brother did something that was supposedly 6 inches and I looked and went "ye that's a man's 6 inches" in front of my parents.

So long as the child (as in the whatever age child of the parents) isn't being made uncomfortable or being humiliated then it's no different to any other joke.

Some families are just … low class and tacky.

And then they wonder why their kids can never get ahead in school or the workplace.

Ugh.

Why wouldn’t one aspire to something better for one’s offspring?

You say that as though prudish is negative.

People of couth don’t need to resort to sexual innuendo around their own children (or any children.)

This is so true. The beaver comment to an 18 year old by his parents - just cringe and yuck.

Jokes about sex are fine. Just not jokes or comments about the sex you or your children (or anyone else in the family) might be having.

My early 20s kids would be mortified by the joke OP described and would have said so.

My eldest is almost 17, so not an adult yet, but I’m enjoying the more grown up sense of humour we share. But the idea of sexual innuendo becoming a jokey thing between us makes me cringe from the inside out. I’m not keen on all that ‘wink wink, nudge nudge’ type humour in general though. DP seems to find it funny. It’s like living with bloody Dick Emery sometimes😅

To each his own and all that though.

You sound very judgemental of people who have a different boundary to you.

Your reaction to these jokes is prudish.

I see this as pretty tame and wouldn’t think twice about sharing that sort of thing with adult kids (assuming they had similar sense of humour). Ditto my own parents.

In-laws are more uptight but they’re quite old-fashioned.

Crass, tacky and lowlife.

It's not my thing, but they're all adults.

Yuk my grown up dc would call me out. Not that I'd even consider talking like that. Bleugh!

I agree re different comfort levels. When I was about 18 at a friend's house they told a dirty joke to their family in my presence. I was absolutely gobsmacked and didn't know where to look but they all roared laughing. There is no way in a million years I or anyone else would have told that joke in my house.

Don’t do it then.

Other families don’t have to have the same boundaries as you. Daft innuendos and laughing at smutty jokes with adult kids might not be your thing, and that’s fine - but it’s not harmful.

My mum’s 80 now and recently had me in hysterics informing me that she’d been ‘reading up on that pegging business I keep hearing about’.