What age do you watch sex on tv with your children?

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Growing up, my parents and I rarely watched tv together except the Dukes of Hazard and various game shows on Saturday night, and Blackadder , HIGNFY when we were older.

Now, with streaming, there is no watershed etc. I’m watching Greys Anatomy fur the first time, it’s my favourite ironing show atm. It’s fairly steamy with all the rooms in the on call room etc, tangled live lives, etc. It’s school holidays where I am and my 10 yr old is the room with me. Is it inappropriate to watch it while he’s here? I know I’d squirm a bit at the sex scenes, but IDK if he’d even notice.

What do you think?

Rooms = romps 😁

Of course you shouldn't watch sex scenes with your 10 year old in the room!
If I'm watching something that has a sex scene while my DS is in the house I skip forward. Same if we are watching something together though that doesn't happen often! Mine is older than 10 so sometimes they pop up in films we watch together

I think Grey's Anatomy is a 15 isn't it
So I didn't think I'd watch it with a 10 year old

Don't even watch it with adult dc tbh!
Urgh!

I stick to age ratings and common sense. I have a ten year old and would not watch GA with him in the room.

I'd have watched greys anatomy with mine at that age. It's hardly porn. I'd have probably made a joke like 'close your eyes, there's a rude bit coming' to deal with any embarrassment.

It’s a 15?? Oops I never realised that. Well that explains why I feel uncomfortable. In my defence, we aren’t watching it together - he’s wandering in and out of the room waiting for a game to load on the PS4 so I’ve been flicking it on and off. I’ll wait till he goes out to indulge.

I just googled and there a common sense guide here
www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/greys-anatomy
It’s rated 15 but apparently parents and kids have reviewed it and said 12+ and 13+
I wouldn’t watch it with a 10 year old personally.

I wouldn't watch GA with my 11yo, no. But then she looks away if there's so much as a pre-watershed kissing scene on the tv & god forbid DH gives me a hug when he gets in from work .

I still can't watch them with my parents, I'm 44, just too cringey !!!

I think you need to use your judgement. If it’s a rape or violent scene then definitely no. But I personally would watch romantic love scenes on TV with my 9 yo DN over some of the violent scenes that are deemed ‘appropriate’ for a child that age.

It's not just the sex though, the general content isn't for 10 year olds.

I still would rather stick pins in my eyes than watch sex scenes with my mum and I'm 35

Literally never. I'd sooner go home than watch a sex scene with my Mum.

Probably not. I watched Normal People with my young adults and it was a bumpy experience. They'd had it recommended at uni but I don't think they knew quite what they were letting themselves in for, in terms of me in the room. They started talking about how tricky it is to watch this stuff with your mum, and they wish they'd been forewarned. We got through the whole series, though, so they got used to it.

@GrumpyHoonMain

I do agree. We’ve watched all the Marvel, Star Wars etc and they are so violent even though there’s not smudge of sex.

We’re in France where the age ratings are a lot more lax, maybe that has influenced me.

Ew no don't. I once walked in the lounge to this aged 10. Scarred me for life.

Never.

Never. I have adult kids and it’s not the done thing. Neither parents or adult kids want to be in that situation. In my experience we organically watch the same shows but do so separately (different times, different places such as someone on their trip to/from work, someone else in the house with no one home at some point during the weekend). It would be the worst cringe to watch it together. We all watched GOT separately!

Well that’s another thing - there is very little that we watch together! DS2 is usually glued to the Simpsons on his IPad, and barely gives the tv a second glance. DH listens to endless podcasts and watched zero tv and DS 1 (14) watches Tiktok on his phone and what’s apps his friends endlessly. The only things we watch together are Bake Off and Grand Designs reruns and Disney Plus films and series.

My parents still turned over sex scenes on TV when I was in my thirties!