To wonder how you manage to have sex on a family holiday?

[NorthernGravy]

I know this sounds a bit weird, but I am looking at booking a holiday, which will involve 7yo DS sleeping on the sofa bed in our room. When we've gone away previously we've done Eurocamp, so he's been in his own room in a chalet.

I was looking at holidays and suddenly thought "oh crap, where do we have sex?". I couldn't have sex while he was sleeping in the room, doing it in the bathroom while he is asleep sounds uncomfortable.

I looked at apartments and then realised that I would end up doing all the cooking and it wouldn't be a holiday for me. I am done with self catering.

Am I being weird thinking about it?

We used to think of it as foreplay and had lots of sex when we got home!!

It's not just the "baboon" and "animal" comments that are unbelievable. I am amazed at the number of people who are suggesting the balcony. People do hear. You are having sex in public and just because you are on holiday it isn't okay.

I'm in my nineties, been married 70 years and DH and I do it every day without fail. 5 times a day on holiday. Including on the balcony and in the shower

@BarbieBabyJellyBrain are you a bit jealous of the couples who have been together donkeys years and still want to rip each other’s clothes off?!

Go on holiday for less time but have more suitable accommodation.

People who have sex on the balcony are so unbelievably selfish.
I don't want to see you having sex, I and the rest of the world don't consent to being part of your sex.

Do it in private.

Kids clubs are your friend

I don’t think I’ll ever be looking up at balconies in hotels again. Not that I make a habit of it anyway but really at how many people seem to view their balconies are shagging shelves.

People who have sex on the balcony are so unbelievably selfish

I don't want to see you having sex, I and the rest of the world don't consent to being part of your sex

I’m not selfish at all. How ridiculous is it for someone to believe that doing something so natural is selfish because someone may or may not see.

No one can see on the Bali Nyc. I think people are thinking the sex is like in the windows of Amsterdam; we’re talking beach towels over the railings to hide the small chance of someone looking up at the balcony from the side road or beach where normally balconies face; fairly hushed tones and at 3am when you’re all bloody asleep!

I’m not swinging off the clothes line with my arse hanging of the balcony and foot in the bucket

*Bali Nyc = balcony

This consent bullshit is going too far when people are laying claim that a loving couple having quiet sex on a balcony at night when nobody can see is bothering them

The world these days

Do all these 3am balcony shaggers have young children who lie in until midday? I'd be bloody knackered if I was banging away on a balcony until dawn's crack then woken up by the young 'uns at 7am. Our children were never ones for lazy mornings.

@MargotLovedTom1 but you’re on holiday so you chill the next day, take it turns to have DC and sunbathe / nap/relax.

Also, it may be 3am, but it can be quick

I've never thought of shagging on the balcony before. One to add to the list.

What about the people above you - if it’s high rise thing or the people next to you? Poor old Doris and Melvin could be coming out for a midnight cocoa and get a bit of an eye full if they glance sideways or downwards....

Fairylea, maybe Doris and Melvin went outside to get their eyeful! "Let's just have a nice cuppa cocoa and perve on the shagging, love!"

@Wauden

Doris and Melvin will definitely be having a bit of hanky panky after their cocoa

@Fairylea people above me would hear us in the hotel / apartment room wouldn’t they? No different.

I have never had a hotel or apartment with a balcony where I can see next door. The only time I can see next door is if I lean forward over the rails. They’re normally fairly private.

Right. That's it.

I'm never going on holiday again if people have been having sex like animals in the bed. Or on the balcony. Or centre parc Friday night style standing up.

If I get an hour child free on holiday then I’m using it to sleep. Or read my book.

I’m so glad to be in menopause and have no libido. Life is easier not having to think about shagging. Poor DH though!

People do hear. You are having sex in public and just because you are on holiday it isn't okay.

But you can hear through hotel walls and terraced house walls as well. So long as people aren't shouting "hit me harder big boy" I think you just have to ignore it. It's just sex. If people didn't do it, none of us would exist.

Oh I'm totally adding balcony sex to my list. Sounds fabulous.
What with me being alive and in love and safe and consenting I think anyone getting their nose out of joint can jog on.

Don't take a leaf from parents book and do it while the child is in the shower. Please, please don't. Your child won't be able to work out how to turn the shower off in a new place, so will wander out into the room for help and see you in the act unexpectedly. Also, don't try and do it while they're asleep in the room, kids pretend to be asleep in the hope they can play on their Gameboy (insert modern equivalent here) under the covers later, and witness it all. God I wish this was a theory and not anecdotal.

But you can hear through hotel walls and terraced house walls as well. So long as people aren't shouting "hit me harder big boy" I think you just have to ignore it. It's just sex. If people didn't do it, none of us would exist.

I have never heard much through hotel or house walls and even if I did at least nobody can see them. A hotel room is a private place but a balcony usually isn't. I remember seeing a couple shagging on holiday when I was about 14 as did most of my friends. It's really sordid to have sex somewhere in public like that where you can be overseen. A couple even made it on to the news a whole ago for doing this.

I wonder if this couple thought they couldn't be seen!

www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/they-dont-give-damn-randy-11539554

Sooo... You're putting Sex over your child? Okay. nice to know your priorities are sorted 👍🏻👌🏻

What a load of old bollocks!