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)

So is shagging in the park OK as long as there aren’t more than 6 people involved and you’re all wearing masks?

It's idiotic and there is ZERO way of policing this... much like the 2 week quarantine on return from holiday.

People that don’t understand don’t want to understand. It suits their narrative not to.

The virus isn’t going anywhere. If the government had laid out when we could see partners who live elsewhere again, that would be one thing. But my mental health is vastly improved by having contact, physical emotional and spiritual, with the one person I favour above all others. Time with him is not like a zoom chat with my mates. If you cannot empathise then I pity you.

100% this.

@Bizawit

OMG I can’t believe 32% of people have voted YABU . This country has gone bonkers, I don’t even know where I’m living anymore.

YANBU OP.

@Bizawit

Why does it shock you? Have you actually read the thread?

It's fine to haves ex with whoever you like as long as it's outdoors, 2 meters apart with no more than 6 people present... Oh, and wear a mask.
Good Luck 😂

“It will be our responsibility for as long as is necessary”

And who gets to decide how long it’s necessary? The Government? You? The secret committee of scientists we don’t know and didn’t elect to make decisions about how we should organise our lives? The likes of Neil Ferguson/ Dom Cummings, who don’t even believe in the rules they have help create enough to abide by them..?

“What do you think will happen if the government just say "go for.it. do what you want"?..Yes, the mortality rate is about 1% but 1% of 60 million people is a lot of deaths. Not to mention all of the young, healthy people who will die because hospitals will be over run with Covid patients so young people having car accidents, heart attacks, asthma attacks, strokes, accidents at home, anaphylaxis etc will also die because there won't be room in hospital to treat them. Can you not all see that? Hospital.beds are a finite resource. If you fill them with Covid patients there won't be room for anyone else.”

Literally none of what you are describing has, or is at all likely, to happen with or without a lockdown.

The UK is going to become Gilead. Under his eye.

@Isaidnomorecrisps you’ve done well and we have done the same thing after a 2 month separation. I feel so much better now, we all do.
You need to look after your mental health as well and after having been ill etc I think you will be fine.

You’re seeing a long term partner ya just happen to not live with, not going on a tinder rampage.

We keep ourselves to ourselves and have a little corona bubble and I know lots of people who do that.

Enjoy your special time together

@Meeeh
🤗🤗 so excited it’s ridiculous - very glad you did too.

[quote ItsGoingTibiaK]@Sueannnnna

Have you actually read the amendments to the Statutory Instruments or just the ridiculous stories that this is a ban on sex?

The main purpose of The SI is actually to remove a whole swathe of limitations that were previously covered in Regulation 6 - all of the ones that prohibited people from leaving their homes aside from some specific reasonable reasons. These previous regulations also, in effect, would prohibit having sex with someone not from your household, if that’s the childish way you whose to interpret the law.

So maybe you should be cheering the fact that the government have actually done what they said and removed these restrictions as soon as possible - whole adding a relatively minor amendment that means it’s still (for now) prohibited to meet with people not from your household inside their home, which is entirely consistent with what they have announced over the last few days.

Needless to say, the SI makes no mention of sexual intercourse and it is only the press that have adopted this as an attention-grabbing headline. For what it’s worth, it also effectively bans arm-wrestling, playing chess, and squeezing someone else’s zits inside their home, but that’s not as headline-grabbing, is it?[/quote]
My DH and I are separating, and he is on tinder hooking up with random females for one night stands while we have to live under the same roof. It’s awful. I welcome more clarity that close physical contact in another household is high risk.

However much of this debate is flawed as sueannnna points out, this is not a new law specifically targeted people going have sex in another household.

I ultimately think, if you don’t live with or are in contact with others, then seeing your boyfriend if he also has no contact is fine. However if you are in contact with others, you are potentially taking a higher risk and that isn’t fair on them. So a woman living with her vulnerable mum? I’d not be staying overnight for her sake. Or I’d move out for two weeks, have a great time with boyfriend! Then isolate for two weeks to make sure I’m symptom free then move back in with my mum!

I'm not so bothered about the government telling me I can't have sex with busty Babs from no 24, what's bothering me more is, how the on earth did they know and have they told the wife? did they know?

Of course they can police it. The housemate of the guilty can call the police and collect evidence, like taking a photo on a sly. Now that the Coronavirus has made an impact on the police quota, they will penalise anyone just to create a crime!

I do think that most people would sleepwalk into a Gilead type world and just go along with it.

If unmarried women having sex were actually forced to be handmaids, would anybody protest? If abortion was made illegal would everybody just go along with it?

You can have sex with someone who lives in your household but the Government confirmed it is illegal to have sex with someone currently not living in your household.

So you can have adulterous sex with your lodger but not with your Keyworker spouse who currently lives in a hotel to be near where they work (or is currently living somewhere else). It also implies that inappropriate relationships are now no longer illegal (parent having sex with child 😢😞).

Hope that clarifies things. 😂 We weren't sure if you could have sex with anyone from your household, including spouses somewhere public as the guidelines are vague about this...😂

@pollymere

It also implies that inappropriate relationships are now no longer illegal (parent having sex with child 😢😞).

Oh, FFS, it does absolutely nothing of the sort. What a ridiculous thing to say.

@NaturesMantra

Of course they can police it. The housemate of the guilty can call the police and collect evidence, like taking a photo on a sly. Now that the Coronavirus has made an impact on the police quota, they will penalise anyone just to create a crime!

Taking a photo of a person where they can expect privacy (inside their home or garden) is likely to be a breach of privacy laws. So does one illegal act trump another?

I feel sorry for all those working tirelessly in the hospital coming across threads like these

This.

@Hearhoovesthinkzebras @ItsGoingTibiaK @Floatyboat Can I just thank you for your intellect. The way you're all coming across is amazing. So patient.

@PatricksRum my local hospital is empty and they are all bored . My neighbour is an agency nurse and has nO work it’s so quiet

@Sunnydays123456 What's your point sorry?

I thought you flounced?

I feel sorry for all those working tirelessly in the hospital coming across threads like these

Don’t speak for us all, I work front line and think the covid stasi on here are pathetic!

[quote Sunnydays123456]@PatricksRum my local hospital is empty and they are all bored . My neighbour is an agency nurse and has nO work it’s so quiet[/quote]
Really? I have many friends working in hospitals right now. Firstly, they aren't bored. Secondly, they would far rather be sitting twiddling their thumbs with nothing to do than facing what they have been facing since March. You have no idea. The fact that medics are predicting a huge incidence of PTSD amongst healthcare workers that have worked during this should tell you something.

For goodness’ sake, just use your common sense.