Sex With Children In the House

[pococurante]

I cannot relax when we have a shag if the children are in the house. We have several teens. I am listening out for every movement and am so embarrassed when the bed squeaks.

How do people feel about sex when children might overhear? Will it damage them for life to listening to that? Should I just get on with it? Do people have strategies?

Lock on the bedroom door and be discreet, it's not difficult to do. If your bed is squeaky, fix it or replace it. Do they never go out with their friends? Wear headphones? Go to school/college?

Teach them that all parents are sexless crones?

Or, put the radio on

If we start playing loud music it'll be even more obvious!

I don’t have a problem having sex with kids in the house. I wouldn’t want to advertise that was what I was doing and I wouldn’t want them walking in on it, so I have had the bed fixed when it starts to squeak (and pulled it away from the wall if it starts to knock) and I have a lock on the bedroom door.

YANBU. Early mornings are your friend. Also encourage teens to wear headphones while gaming, and keep an eye out for Premier Inn sales 😂

If the bed squeeks fix it, move it from the wall so it doesn’t bang. Throw the duvet in the floor? You’re not going to enjoy it if worrying. But lock on the door

You are being quite ridiculous OP. Put a lock on your bedroom door and sort the squeaky bed out.

We've got a lock on the door.

It's the noise I worry about. Do you all live in castles or something, with 4 foot stone walls??

How did the human race manage to survive this long? The idea that sex is something dirty or secretive is an upper class Victorian morality. For most of human history there were no doors, often no separate rooms, and if it squeaked, it squeaked.

We work from home during the week so make the most of when the kids are at school. They're teens and the thought of them (or anyone!) Being able to hear us (I can be quite loud) is mortifying.

I get a bit self conscious. It’s even worse for us as my mum lives with us and she barely goes out. On the extremely rare occasions we get the house to ourselves we get straight into bed. I think the last time was about three months ago 😢 Other than that, as we also have DS, it’s quiet shagging with the lights off.

Go the other way! Be loud and proud. They'll never mention it. Show them that life doesn't end at 21 and that grown-ups keep acting grown up their whole lives.

Why does this come up so often on here?

Do you really need us to tell you to wait til he's or they're out the house?

Incoming stories of people proudly sharing how they were caught doing it

This is madness, I really don't care about this as an issue. If they walk in on you once they certainly won't do it again!

They definitely want think about you having sex less than you want them to catch you.

I do have a bedroom door lock but I dare my DC to mention this as a problem. Told off for shagging in my own house, I think not.

How do they think you got the several teens, immaculate conception?!

If you’ve got a lock what’s the problem? Does the bed squeak? I’d get it fixed or move away from wall.

Talking about creaking bed, I’m moving into a flat soon, will have someone above me and below, but not the side where the bed will be. What do you recommend for minimum creaking / noisy bed? As I need to buy a new bed. I have a new boyfriend so when I see him we have lots of sex! Teen isn’t in the house thankfully as she will be at her dad’s - joys of separated parents! Otherwise I think I’d throw the duvet on the floor and lock the door or morning sex when only an earthquake would wake a teen!

• Early mornings
• Late nights
• Have radio / music on (have it on most of the time if you're worried about it signally Mum's Sexy Time)
• Fix the bed
• Lock on the door
• Accept that the swinging from chandelier sex will have to wait until they're all at a sleepover

Ds did hear us years ago, he must have been about 10. He was really upset and embarrassed.

So we wait until they're both out at school!

Definitely do not do that OP. Anyone of any age hearing their parents having sex is just not necessary and is something that will stick with you forever.

Can you both work from home on the same days, that way you have lunch breaks together? There is of course the period where your children are at school/college. If working from home isn't possible, what about booking a day off every few weeks? All the children need to know is that you're having a day off together. You'll probably always find it hard when the children are in the house so I suggest trying to find times when they're not there or making the effort to go elsewhere

I replaced my bed when it started squeaking and we have perfected the art of near-silent sex. Background noise is also useful.

I had to listen to my parents shagging for most of my teens and it was horrific. I don't think it's Victorian or prudish to not want to inflict this on them.

We can't do mornings because we also have small kids.

Isn't that what the floor is for lol

Well it’s clearly working out ok if you have several teens plus younger kids.

It's them getting to teen years that has brought on the self-consciousness. When they're little you can shag with them in a bed in the same room, pretty much.

No child of any age wants to hear their parents having sex.

No parent wants to hear their children having sex either.

Make sure bed doesn’t squeak, get a lock on door. Maybe start playing music regularly (doesn’t have to be loud!) so you can use that as cover up