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)

No, I don't, Jing. However, I do know that some people have sacrificed more than others, and in different ways. My personal limits were reached back in March.

As for people saying it's just about having a shag and you should just move your partner in if you're that keen on them: not when your children are recovering from abuse and need to know that their home is their inviolable space and that their mother won't be moving anyone else in with them.

With respect, you have no idea what sacrifices other people are making.

This.

Just because I'm sticking to the rules please don't assume I'm coping.
Just because Louise is staying inside please don't assume she isn't struggling.

@HermioneWeasley

I am boggled by what people are accepting in thr name of controlling thr virus - actually allowing the government to legislate their sex lives

They aren't. They've said separate households can't mix. They aren't controlling your sex life.

Can't believe on p20 people are still sayimg that it must be either serious enough to move in or trivial enough to not need to break the rules for. Thousands of us on here are single parents who are told every day not to push a relationship onto our kids, not to blend families etc. I've been with my partner 4 years and we are serious but not blending families because it's not right for our kids or financially. But yeah sod all that, I'll move in to prove that it's a worthwhile relationship 🤔

BlackberryCane I reckon you could get away with sex on the kids trampoline then.

Do what you gotta do OP. You’d have to be a total dick to report someone. My friends been doing it throughout lockdown. But she stays away from her parents, doesn’t send her kids to school and works from home.

@HugeAckmansWife

Can't believe on p20 people are still sayimg that it must be either serious enough to move in or trivial enough to not need to break the rules for. Thousands of us on here are single parents who are told every day not to push a relationship onto our kids, not to blend families etc. I've been with my partner 4 years and we are serious but not blending families because it's not right for our kids or financially. But yeah sod all that, I'll move in to prove that it's a worthwhile relationship 🤔

I was thinking this earlier. MN at its finest. Or something.

In Switzerland, from Saturday, it's ok to engage the services of a sex worker but it's still not ok to practice close contact sports

I’ve been getting laid throughout the lockdown. I must owe a fair few quid in fines now.

Did you bother to RTFT? It’s not about a shag. Stop being so ignorant

But it is about sex isn't it. Why should sexual or romantic relations be priveleged above familial or sexual ones. Some people see their family daily, or friends and gain much more from that than some people gain sexual relationships.

I really don't see why this group of people who live apart but are in a relationship should be priveleged above other groups of people. It really smacks of me me me and in quite undignified.

No. You didn't read it.

I read the first post and the title. Both referred to sex. Scanned bits of the rest. Must have missed the "correct" answer I'm meant to reply with. What was it?

RTFT

having sex did not count as a reasonable excuse

Can't you "interpret" it as childcare?
As in making sure they're conceived?

@MrMeeseekscando

No. I have directed my posts to op and this general sense of entitlement/victimhood I picked up several posters have. If you don't wish to respond to that it's fine. There is no need to read every tedious post in a thread this long. My point still stands.

It's the different households meeting within 2m that is the problem, so it could be anything from make up to hairdressing and yes to sex, if you don't live together. It's not specifically targeted at lovers!

I'm shielding away from dp. So can't even meet him in the garden for a chat.

It's always been the case you can't shag. Unless move in together

But the risk is exactly the same for me whether I live with him or not!

@mascotte

"Me" being the giveaway word in your statement. It isn't all about you. Laws aren't made specifically for you.

The risk is the same for everyone : you'd be ok with it if I moved him in and absolutely nothing would be different

Risk wise

We both work from home and go out only rarely to shop. All other rules observed. Live in same area. 🤷‍♀️

Imagine how frustrating it is to be a key worker, be paid to risk catching and spreading covid daily since the beginning of the pandemic, the pressure, the work, and not being able to de-compress with your partner and have a hug because you don't live together. That's my life! I can be paid to risk but can't make personal decisions that effect my life 🙄

@Floatyboat

Mascotte's risk is no more than a co-habitant couple who live together and go to work and mingle and then come home to each other

@mascotte

Should that logic apply to friends and family? Ie you can go visit each other inside as long as you both consider yourself low risk? I think that's vague and hard to enforce. Any more vagueness to the lockdown rules would undermine them almost totally.

@CoachBombay

And should single key workers be able to decompress by hugging friends or family?