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Swinging teachers

372 replies

Saintsfan7 · 08/03/2025 17:59

Interested to read some opinions on this. Someone we know has found out that a teacher at their child's school is a swinger. This person is aghast about this and wants to report the teacher (not sure what for) and is refusing to let them teach their child.
My attitude is that as long as it doesn't affect their work (whichbit clearly isnt) then what the teacher chooses to do in their private time is their business and their business only. ATBU?

OP posts:
ItGhoul · 14/03/2025 10:24

Markovenchip · 14/03/2025 08:52

I can't do anything about it, but I do not condone promiscuity (or drug taking) amongst professional people who educate and examine others, and while my taxes are paying Doctors, Teachers, Dentists, etc; etc; I will have my say, end of !

I just properly laughed out loud at the idea of giving a shit about the sex life of your dentist.

Jeeeeeeesus H Christ, that's some level of unnatural obsession with other people's sexual behaviour. It's almost like you really enjoy thinking about this stuff.

ARichtGoodDram · 14/03/2025 10:29

I can't do anything about it, but I do not condone promiscuity (or drug taking) amongst professional people who educate and examine others, and while my taxes are paying Doctors, Teachers, Dentists, etc; etc; I will have my say, end of !

You'd combust in a a swingers club.

Last time I was at an event at just my table there was a police Inspector, a doctor, a nurse, someone who works in a school (I'm not sure in what capacity), and two folks that work for the DWP.

Unfortunately for you paying your taxes (taxes which they also pay btw...) may make you feel entitled to voice your opinion, but you don't actually get a say in what they do.

Markovenchip · 14/03/2025 11:14

If they ask questions, I'm obliged to give them honest answers (not gooseberry bush ones), your post is a paradox, I regard promiscuity as 'inappropriate' (particularly for a professional person, their work lives dealing with people ), yet you (and several others) condone it !

alwaysdeleteyourcookies · 14/03/2025 11:30

Also FYI if you want to sound less creepy, please stop using the word ‘kiddies’; it makes you sound like a children’s party entertainer from the 1970s who makes little girls sit on his lap and call him Uncle.

So much this. Creepy.

SpanThatWorld · 14/03/2025 11:32

Not sure that qualifies as a paradox.

It's just different people who have different opinions, one of which seems to be that those of us who went to university and gained professional qualifications can only have vanilla sex because that's what you like.

Whereas people who don't have professions and don't work with people (struggling to think who these people might be. Seamstresses? Wood carvers?) can do as they like because their inappropriate carnal desires can't escape their sheds and contaminate the rest of us.

Well, next time I'm retubing a hearing aid I will be sure not to discuss my sexual.preferences with the 8 month old baby I'm working with. Or the 101 year old whose slim-fit tubes i cleared earwax from.

Honestly, your posts are disappearing down a rabbit hole of utter absurdity.

caringcarer · 14/03/2025 11:41

FortyElephants · 08/03/2025 18:39

I promise you no swingers have used pampas grass since the 70s! The internet is much more effective than pampas grass in finding other swingers 😆

I've got Pampas grass. It was here when we moved in and my boys used to like using the grass as swords as did the other kids around our house. No energy for swinging or digging out huge roots of massive Pampas plants. There's at least 7 of them.

EBearhug · 14/03/2025 12:22

7 pampas plants? Just think what else you could plant in that space!

(I agree it's a bugger to remove, though.)

Markovenchip · 14/03/2025 12:28

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Markovenchip · 14/03/2025 12:31

SpanThatWorld · 14/03/2025 11:32

Not sure that qualifies as a paradox.

It's just different people who have different opinions, one of which seems to be that those of us who went to university and gained professional qualifications can only have vanilla sex because that's what you like.

Whereas people who don't have professions and don't work with people (struggling to think who these people might be. Seamstresses? Wood carvers?) can do as they like because their inappropriate carnal desires can't escape their sheds and contaminate the rest of us.

Well, next time I'm retubing a hearing aid I will be sure not to discuss my sexual.preferences with the 8 month old baby I'm working with. Or the 101 year old whose slim-fit tubes i cleared earwax from.

Honestly, your posts are disappearing down a rabbit hole of utter absurdity.

I'm only simply pointing out I have values and standards (old-fashioned or not), all you people who are making derogatory comments about me are sorely testing my patience

Markovenchip · 14/03/2025 12:34

ItGhoul · 14/03/2025 10:24

I just properly laughed out loud at the idea of giving a shit about the sex life of your dentist.

Jeeeeeeesus H Christ, that's some level of unnatural obsession with other people's sexual behaviour. It's almost like you really enjoy thinking about this stuff.

No I don't, I refuse to let perverse behaviour live rent-free in my mind, like people who despise Donald Trump, because of their hatred for him he is living rent-free in their minds !

Oioisavaloy27 · 14/03/2025 12:36

Who cares! What goes in in a teachers sex life has.nothing to do with nobody your friend is a knob.

HellDorado · 14/03/2025 12:45

Markovenchip · 14/03/2025 08:18

I meant grown-up, over 16 'kiddies', not young ones !..........I do not wish to make any further comment on the this subject, and would prefer no more responses, thank you.

I’d prefer to be 15 years younger and four stone lighter. That’s not happening either.

SpanThatWorld · 14/03/2025 12:55

Markovenchip · 14/03/2025 12:31

I'm only simply pointing out I have values and standards (old-fashioned or not), all you people who are making derogatory comments about me are sorely testing my patience

How very thoughtless of us.

1SillySossij · 14/03/2025 21:45

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 08/03/2025 19:57

One of my teachers used to be a Morris dancer and occasionally take part in displays in our town centre. They'd probably have got more kudos if they'd been a swinger.

They weren't a physics teacher by any chance?

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 14/03/2025 21:54

1SillySossij · 14/03/2025 21:45

They weren't a physics teacher by any chance?

No, maths. Probably why it's still a subject I hate!

But does that mean that there was an epidemic of Morris dancing teachers...as well as swinging ones 😬.

Verdansk84 · 14/03/2025 22:08

weather its a swingers person or a married couple sex is sex so why does it matter ?

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 14/03/2025 22:13

Markovenchip · 14/03/2025 08:52

I can't do anything about it, but I do not condone promiscuity (or drug taking) amongst professional people who educate and examine others, and while my taxes are paying Doctors, Teachers, Dentists, etc; etc; I will have my say, end of !

What does 'have my say' mean in this context? Sure, you can spout whatever you want on MN, but you must surely know that you have absolutely zero say in who your 'kiddies'' school employs and what they do in their private life? So your 'say' means precisely nothing.

ItGhoul · 14/03/2025 22:23

Markovenchip · 14/03/2025 12:34

No I don't, I refuse to let perverse behaviour live rent-free in my mind, like people who despise Donald Trump, because of their hatred for him he is living rent-free in their minds !

If you refuse to let ‘perverse behaviour live rent-free in your mind’, why are you so obsessed with ‘having your say’ about other people’s sex lives? You can’t even stay away from this thread. You’re obsessed with ‘perverse behaviour’ to the extent that you can’t stop ranting about it. Frankly, I’m amazed you have time to think about anything else.

Lost20211 · 14/03/2025 22:34

None of anyone’s business.

HellDorado · 14/03/2025 22:34

What does 'have my say' mean in this context?

I think it means “Rant and froth in the delusional belief anyone will take my deranged ramblings seriously”.

Maddy70 · 15/03/2025 00:02

1SillySossij · 14/03/2025 21:45

They weren't a physics teacher by any chance?

I think I might know who you mean. Initials RL,?

Markovenchip · 15/03/2025 09:04

SpanThatWorld · 14/03/2025 12:55

How very thoughtless of us.

Yes it is.

Markovenchip · 15/03/2025 09:07

ItGhoul · 14/03/2025 22:23

If you refuse to let ‘perverse behaviour live rent-free in your mind’, why are you so obsessed with ‘having your say’ about other people’s sex lives? You can’t even stay away from this thread. You’re obsessed with ‘perverse behaviour’ to the extent that you can’t stop ranting about it. Frankly, I’m amazed you have time to think about anything else.

To go back to the beginning, I don't want uninhibited sex-mad teachers educating my youngsters, their shabby morals and lifestyle may influence the innocent, end of.

Markovenchip · 15/03/2025 09:09

HellDorado · 14/03/2025 22:34

What does 'have my say' mean in this context?

I think it means “Rant and froth in the delusional belief anyone will take my deranged ramblings seriously”.

I'm entitled to my say as I pay Teachers salaries, they are quite mega from what I've read, let alone the 15 weeks plus paid holiday per year, I expect a Teacher to have morals in the classroom, and in their home lives

Markovenchip · 15/03/2025 09:12

SpanThatWorld · 14/03/2025 11:32

Not sure that qualifies as a paradox.

It's just different people who have different opinions, one of which seems to be that those of us who went to university and gained professional qualifications can only have vanilla sex because that's what you like.

Whereas people who don't have professions and don't work with people (struggling to think who these people might be. Seamstresses? Wood carvers?) can do as they like because their inappropriate carnal desires can't escape their sheds and contaminate the rest of us.

Well, next time I'm retubing a hearing aid I will be sure not to discuss my sexual.preferences with the 8 month old baby I'm working with. Or the 101 year old whose slim-fit tubes i cleared earwax from.

Honestly, your posts are disappearing down a rabbit hole of utter absurdity.

I am not absurd, I just like to see standards and morals, I expect a School Teacher to have them, otherwise I don't want them educating my youngsters