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The school run is a hotbed of lesbian sex?

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nhsmanagersanonymous · 20/08/2025 21:13

According to an article in the Times I read today. Apparently everybody’s bed hopping and snogging on nights out and in the garden centre.

Is this true? I didn’t get a hint of it when I was doing school runs though one mum did throw out her nice husband and move another mum’s scruffy husband in.

That was about five years ago. So did is this new or did I miss out on the undercurrents ( and is that why the PTA mums were so very mean girls in their clique) or has this been grossly exaggerated?

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LancashireButterPie · 21/08/2025 09:12

Its been 20 years since I did a school run but I have noticed a sea change in sexual attitudes where I work.
On our last works night out (all young professionals except me) the girls were snogging the faces off each other.......and they all have boyfriends.

MyAcornWood · 21/08/2025 09:04

I guess I’m not as attractive as I’d hoped, I’ve never been propositioned by a potential lesbian sex buddy on the school run 🎻

I did get a hand delivered invitation to the village swingers club mind

Absentmindedsmile · 21/08/2025 09:03

Wishful thinking from the journalist probably

CoffeeCantata · 21/08/2025 09:01

Don’t worry - the Silly Season will soon be over for journos.

MonetsLilac · 21/08/2025 08:59

HScully · 21/08/2025 08:58

I am a Lesbian I might start offering to take my neighbours kids to school..... 😂

Go for it! A neighbourly gesture and a social win!

HScully · 21/08/2025 08:58

I am a Lesbian I might start offering to take my neighbours kids to school..... 😂

MonetsLilac · 21/08/2025 08:54

jay55 · 21/08/2025 08:46

Not having kids I’ve never once been jealous of the school run, until now.

😂
Well, in my experience, it was drop kids off, wave, off to work! Very dull.

jay55 · 21/08/2025 08:46

Not having kids I’ve never once been jealous of the school run, until now.

GrumblyHedge · 21/08/2025 08:45

Is it AI? It sounds quite a lot like it and is conveniently anonymous.

This kind of organised fun — which is always called “drinkies”, never “drinks” — can feel like going into battle, where you have to smile politely and keep your mouth shut for fear of dropping a social clanger that would mean you’re never invited to Tiggy’s summer party with its free-flowing prosecco again. It can be stiff and gladiatorial, it can be snipey and like Mean Girls— at least until the third bottle of wine, where things tend to get loose and interesting, usually back at someone’s house. A lot more interesting, in my case.

it sounds like it’s written by Geoff Alconbury, circa Bridget Jones 1990s.

WasThatACorner · 21/08/2025 08:42

Renamed · 20/08/2025 23:12

Um? Maybe the times thinks that eating cake and gardening is what lesbians do?

(Innocent new mum: Ooh I’ll have the lemon drizzle and a box of those tulip bulbs.
Lesbians in the vicinity: Swoon)

That's so reductive. We like a good book too!

ChannelLightVessel · 21/08/2025 08:39

Hmm. DB is a primary school HT. I’ll have to ask him…

80smonster · 21/08/2025 08:39

Yep, our private school is a hotbed of sexual tension. Don’t think it’s specific to lesbians though.

Chakhakhan77 · 21/08/2025 08:38

alldark · 21/08/2025 08:36

See, now I feel like I have really missed out in life. I don't think anyone has ever brought me post-coital cake...

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🤣🤣🤣

alldark · 21/08/2025 08:36

LemondrizzleShark · 21/08/2025 08:34

Drinking tea and eating cake sounds very post-coital…

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See, now I feel like I have really missed out in life. I don't think anyone has ever brought me post-coital cake...

Chakhakhan77 · 21/08/2025 08:35

It was a long time ago now but a dad who I worked shifts with was able to do drop off. As soon as drop off was done him & another school run mum would disappear off together for their daytime shenanigans. Another mum would be off on the train for her daytime fun and would arrive back at pick up very happy lol. Another mum got found out for sex chatting to other men on Freeserve chat instead of getting the housework done; so if you working mums always wondered what they did all day there you have it 🤣
And all this was in west Yorkshire, must be something in the water 🤣

alldark · 21/08/2025 08:34

I had a friend who worked decades ago in a social work centre in a very deprived area and it was like this. They had orgies (not my friend, she left).

LemondrizzleShark · 21/08/2025 08:34

Fountofwisdom · 20/08/2025 22:11

That’s what they wanted you to think they’d gone there for… 😂

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Drinking tea and eating cake sounds very post-coital…

DamnUserName21 · 21/08/2025 08:30

I completely missed this on the school run! Would have made it more interesting, for sure! 😀

ACynicalDad · 21/08/2025 08:30

Maybe it’s a plant by the National pta association to get more volunteers.

PollyBell · 21/08/2025 08:27

MonetsLilac · 21/08/2025 08:26

Dramas? Mmm. Perhaps it's reading MN that gave this journalist the idea!

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I never had any at the school but seems they do a lot on here

Emptyandsad · 21/08/2025 08:26

PennyRest · 21/08/2025 03:54

And there’s me thinking the PTA wasn’t their sort of thing.
Not sure about in the garden centre though. A very genteel hotbed perhaps, behind the trellis section.

Maybe, but, as a man, I obviously believe they all gravitate towards the aubergine plants in the end...

MonetsLilac · 21/08/2025 08:26

PollyBell · 21/08/2025 08:25

I would normally agree with you but how many posts on here over the years are all about school mum dramas so going by them you would think a school mum is only just tha

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Dramas? Mmm. Perhaps it's reading MN that gave this journalist the idea!

PollyBell · 21/08/2025 08:25

MonetsLilac · 21/08/2025 08:07

Of course it's true! They're a group of women, aren't they? They can't possibly be thinking about their family, career, earnings, holidays, the political situation etc. it's gotta be about sex! It couldn't possibly be in some pathetic male journalist's febrile imagination.

I would normally agree with you but how many posts on here over the years are all about school mum dramas so going by them you would think a school mum is only just tha

MonetsLilac · 21/08/2025 08:23

Motherfluffers · 21/08/2025 08:14

This is patently a complete male fantasy - all about women having sexy encounters (as if-in the garden centre..) not forming real lesbian relationships/living together/ civil partnerships/getting married

Isn't it just! Made me laugh.

ReceiveIt · 21/08/2025 08:15

We've got some lesbian school mums. 2 are happily married and the other 2 were lovers but have now become enemies. They make just as much of a show of being enemies as they did when they were lovers 🙄 I've never even spoken to either of them but I know all of their business from the performances in the playground.

A few bed-hopping dads as well. We're not really a garden centre sort of area but I'm sure there's been plenty of entertainment down Primark and Wetherspoons.