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

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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)

@loobyloo1234 well said!

@loobyloo1234 Patronising because we're shielded? Really?
The medal line again.

I haven't been out of the house since the 12th March. I have stuck to the 'rules' but in the last 2 weeks or so I have seen my partner and will continue doing so.

When someone can tell me why my neighbours and their 4 young adult DC, all going out to work at different places but can all get together in the evening is less risky than seeing my partner who works from home.

@loobyloo1234

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

But you know in the years to come when this is all a memory you won't get anyone who admits to breaking lockdown. It'll all be "Oh I never broke any of the rules, I never left the house at all" and it'll be a badge of honour.

You won't get people saying "Oh yeah I did do the conga on VE Day, I pissed off to Dorset to go to the beach and sod the locals and I sat on the park with a bottle of gin with my friends ignoring social distancing".

At least if the ones now are honest that they stayed home.

If my selfish teenagers can manage to stick to SD rules I don’t see why actual grown-ups can’t.

Hormone-addled teenagers, with boyfriends, a terminally ill relative, and lots of stress around exams/their futures.

@StewPots that's the issue with mumsnet.
Unless you're married and living together you may as well have just picked him up when the lights came up in a nightclub.
It's a bizarre attitude.
People state that you don't deserve certain protections etc. "Well get married if it means that much" etc.
Then there's hundreds of threads about unhappy marriages. It's batshit.

So what law is this actually breaking ? How can it be against the law to have who you want in a private property?

The police can’t enter a property without a warrant anyway (unless they suspect a serious crime is in progress!)

@togglethis everybody's circumstances are different. Don't compare adult relationships to 'selfish teenagers'

I’ll compare whatever I like thanks OP. One of the teenagers is 19. She’s got an adult relationship, just like you.

@Sunnydays123456 i think some people on this thread would love a drug-like raid on non-cohabiting partners tbh

Gosh deeply disturbing

Can you still move in with partners now as this stupid lockdown is going on a zillion times longer than initially thought?

@togglethis well that's good for your teenager but once again do not categorise all relationships the same. Just because a 20-whatever age wants to see their partner does not make them anything like a 'grumpy teenager',
I don't even know why you even compared it? How insulting when people are going through tough times

But I’m not going round curtain twitching and denouncing people by the way. I do think that people can evaluate “essential journeys” etc for themselves. I was just answering the OP. If people choose to get together, that’s none of my business — except on AIBU.

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

This works two ways.

I really don't think the police are going to bother enforcing this particular law. Unless they can prove that you have someone in your house for reasons other than the accepted ones, (care, well being, etc) then what can they do? The best line of defence is..."well officer his/her mental health has taken a dive and I'm here because I'm worried about him/her". How can they prove otherwise? They won't be able to they're police officers not registered mental health officials.

Sorry to link to the dm but the nppc have said police have no powers to enforce this

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8376263/Bring-CHAIRS-BBQs-no-sex-dont-live-partner-new-lockdown-rules.html

@StewPots those are the reasons I made my decision to see mine.💐

Just get your DP to dress up as a plumber, or you dress up as a maid when the police knock the door 😂😂

I think they mean there is a rise in outdoor sex...
Sex in public places even if private is still illegal...

Also social distancing if your not in the same house of them applies. BUT its being about sensible... The easing of the lock down rules, where for example children of divorced parents can now be shared... If your being sensible and you arent posting saying onf FB or something. "Hey im popping over to my lovers for a quickie " who is going to know ?