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?

Isn't it so funny the way we all hate hearing people having sex or being heard having sex. It's a natural thing that (almost) everyone will do at least once in their lives... 😅 But yes, I too will be looking for quiet solutions in the near future when the children are a bit older!

All kids hear their parents, I recall hearing mine, lol!

Def sort creaking beds out and def banging headboards, lol!

If everyone worried about this, there'd only ever be one child families, lol!!

This exact thing with the weird title has come up three times in the last month. Are you getting off on the replies?

Exactly. I think I was very early teens when I first heard my parents having sex and hearing it made me feel uncomfortable especially the next day being around them!

OP, with several teenagers and multiple younger kids too, it sounds to me like you have at least 4 kids and do not need our advice re: getting it on. 😂

It's an absolute nightmare. We are living with in-laws so we are sharing a bedroom with the dc and in-laws are on the other side of the bedroom wall. I really miss privacy!

Nope, never happened. Not a badge of honour either. Lots of people are negatively affected by hearing their parents have sex.

Re one child families. There's a difference between having sex and your children having to hear it. Accidents happen but allowing it to crosses serious boundaries and is not ok.

Yep, this exact title was up about two weeks ago, also wonderfully titled sex with children in the house

This is grim. And you weren’t disturbed/horrified by this? There’s absolutely no excuse for putting your kids through hearing this. Natural or not, the onus is on the adult to spare the child any hideous audio of their parents having sex whether it be via mouth or creaking/headboards. As the poster has said, she heard her parents doing it and she hated it so she’s doing all she can to avoid putting her own kids through it and good on her! Anyone who’s had to listen to their parents is usually mortified by this and NEVER forgets - I’m unsure how you’re so jolly about it. It’s kind of weird

Nah, commas don't make much difference, but it's fascinating to see the way some people's minds work. 😂

It's the creepiest thing shagging quietly but what else can you do?

Yes, it really is, and creepier still when I find I have to put my hand over her mouth. Or a pillow.

This just screams poor boundaries to me:
Mine can just lump it if they aren't comfortable Grin or move out

Anyway we let them all have their boyfriends to stay (all over 18)

Glad some people get it, anyway.* *

That's an enviable sex budget you've got there!

Please use punctuation!!

We wait until they're at school 😉

Punctuation more of a worry than foisting adult sex lives on kids. Priorities, priorities...

The hysterics on here are hilarious. Adults have sex in their own bed!! It may be overheard, which isn't ideal, but those on here that are implying we should never ever risk the children hearing so never have sex in the house are laughable.

Nobody said that, just don't gloat about having loud sex so your children can hear

Or pretend like there's nothing you can do, so who cares if they hear anyway. It's so normal and even somehow food for them. Just no.

That’s messed up.

My house is 2 bedroomed, and 100+ years ago there was a married couple, 7ish kids, a nephew and a lodger living here. They probably had sex with some of the kids sleeping in the same bed.

Crack on with it.

I think this is why our manager won't allow us to work from home!

Every couple of months posting variations of the exact same 'kids hearing me having sex' thing is beyond tedious. We need a new term around here. 'Herbert-ing'.

Or maybe 'Do not feed The Herbert'

Not read the whole thread but in response to this:

"I had to listen to my parents shagging for most of my teens and it was horrific"

• you can thank your parents for giving you the example of a functioning and maybe even happy sex life long after you were born. Many couples do not have that
• the above example may have contributed consciously or subconsciously to the relationship you yourself now have, if you are happy with your relationship (and the sex) thank your parents

Not read the whole thread but have you thought about having sex on the floor instead of the bed? Lots of people in the first passionate honeymoon period of their relationship have sex on the floor, it does not have to be uncomfortable.

😂 Yes!

For all those suggesting all you need to do is throw a duvet on the floor or fix the squeaking bed.

When we were in our house share at uni mine and DH's (BF at the time) room was above the lounge. The lounge had a pendant light and apparently it started moving and the rhythm was easily audible. They couldn't hear banging/squeaking of any furniture or us or anything like that. But we're two fully grown adults so it's a fair bit of weight, so if there's anyone below you then they're likely to hear/see/feel what you're doing.

Much like you @pococurante it freaks me out a lot. My kids are still tiny but I'm already thinking about this being our reality in a few years.

I thought that was why people sent their children to Sunday school.

Sunday mornings seemed to be my parents' preferred time for conjugal activity. My father would fetch the wireless from the front room to their bedroom and they enjoyed themselves to the strains of Alistair Cooke's Letter from America and the omnibus edition of The Archers.

@millymog11 you can thank your parents for giving you the example of a functioning and maybe even happy sex life long after you were born. Many couples do not have that

I mean, they were constantly fighting so it was a headfuck, to be honest.

I had no idea there were other threads about this. I have not been a MN user all that long. I am grateful to those offering suggestions or expressing understanding of my concerns.

@postwarbulge , that's funny!