Now illegal to have sex with partner you don't live with?

[Sueannnnna]

Lots of newspapers/online articles announcing this today.
Being in a private place with partner and having sex can lead to a £100 fine if i've read correctly.

The world is going cuckoo.
But who cares about seeing my boyfriend, at least I can go shopping in Primark and go sit on a packed train (sarcasm)

@StewPots with respect I'm leaving this thread. You can read my responses which answer your question clear cut.

@PatricksRum why are you reporting her? She hasn't said anything bad?

I'm reporting you to MN. Your comments are vile

Whereas your comments involving “Karen and her fanny” were the height of class.

Please do show me where I have been abusive?

Hi all,

Can we try and keep it civil?

Peace and love.

You can have sex with your partner in the garden, along with a number of other people 😂.

Bonkers, not well thought through at all.

Yes for legitimately shielding people, not ones who have decided for themselves 🤷‍♀️ and what do you class as legitimately shielding?

There are plenty of people who should be on the shielded lists who aren’t but who are at genuine risk of serious complications, have been told to shield by consultants etc but because they haven’t had a letter presumably you don’t consider those to be legitimately shielding?

This is just yet another of those threads where people see an opportunity to create a them and us situation “well you’re shielded so of course you shouldn’t expect to see people, but as I’m not then I don’t really care what you’re doing.”

That’s the horrible attitude that comes out of this and a lot of other threads.

[quote Sueannnnna]@Sueannnnnaoh
Oh my godddd, so escorts can work because they keep the economy going but I can't see or sleep with my boyfriend unless I charge him and pay the government hahaha
Can yiu not see how ridiculous that is?[/quote]
The economy will come first (pardon the pun). It's why through the lockdown I could go on a packed tube to work but not walk to my parents house to see them.

Peace and Love Mumsnet? Just keep on the right side of pronouns and you can spit out as much spiteful shite as you can bundle in to one post?

I don't see anything especially spiteful on this thread

I just find it crazy that we've entered a world were people are accepting this!

41Sueannnnna you don't have to accept it. You can use your own judgement as to whether the risk is worth taking. That's what Dominic Cummings did and his actions were endorsed by the Prime Minister!

@MadameMarie sorry but it's ridiculous. I'll just start charging my boyfriend then and then he can charge me the next time,
That way we'll just keep swapping the same £5 note

@Sueannnnna Well people always find ways around things but that's not in the spirit of the rules.

@MadameMarie well if think an escort sleeping with lots of men is more safe than me and my boyfriend just sleeping witj each other then I don't know what else to say to you

I don't see anything especially spiteful on this thread yeah, because telling posters that they’re shielding and therefore their circumstances are different so not really fair to judge those who aren’t is particularly lovely.

Because talk of people who are legitimately shielding is oh so inclusive.

If I turned around and said I couldn’t give a stuff if you can’t have sex, because I’m shielding and my circumstances are different I would be jumped on. Yet it’s perfectly ok for the OP and others to said exactly that in reverse....

Funny how quickly we can slide into a totalitarian state! The 2 metre guidance is just guidance It’s not actually legally enforceable.

If I turned around and said I couldn’t give a stuff if you can’t have sex, because I’m shielding and my circumstances are different I would be jumped on. Yet it’s perfectly ok for the OP and others to said exactly that in reverse....

I think you'll find that is exactly what happened

@AlternativePerspective nobody is saying their circumstances are different? The response was to a poster who has chosen to shield and is making out everybody else must do the same. Not all of us have been told to shield and life has to go on for people

@Sueannnnna

I didn't say it was safe, I used the scenario of being allowed on a packed tube to go to work through lockdown but not to walk to my parents house down the road (as an example).

One helps the economy going, one doesn't.

There's a reason the rules are there.

who has chosen to shield

StewPots Yes, we both are. In response to
@patricksrum is your child shielding?

I do wonder with the 'I have not left my house in 3 months' hope to achieve by telling people that on these threads. Literally no one gives a shiny shit

Write to Bojo and ask for a medal. And please try to keep your patronising shit to yourself as it's really beyond tedious now