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Bedsheets and sex

298 replies

harerunner · 31/01/2024 16:22

I'm currently enjoying a new relationship, and we're having a lot of sex 🙂... every night we're together. I've not had that for a very long time!

Do those of you lucky enough to be in my position change your bedsheets every night (like I currently do), or put up with a "wet patch" and crusty sheets the next evening, or do something different (I used to put a towel down in my last relationship but sex was more planned then - now it's spontaneous and stopping to go get a towel kinda breaks the mood!)

I've only got two sheets and with work and other pressures, one of these days I'm. It going to have a clean sheet to put on! I may have to buy more! I can't be the only one with this dilemma.

OP posts:
betterangels · 31/01/2024 21:23

I'd be buying a few more sheets.

EBearhug · 31/01/2024 21:26

I have a box of tissues by the bed - mostly for hayfever, but useful for other things. But last guy kept a towel by his bed, and I have spare old hand towels, and it seemed sensible to me, so now I do, becauseyes, it can dribble. I also have a mattress protector and spare sheets a-plenty. (Which is more pertinent to the bastard flooding peri periods than any men who share my bed. I'd be excellent at clearing up a murder scene, so a sex scene is a breeze.)

The kitchen floor is a bit hard, even when not granite.

notfeelingittttt · 31/01/2024 21:26

RainbowZebraWarrior · 31/01/2024 20:19

'The room smelling of semen and bum' <boak>

This puts me in mind of Val and Harvey from League of Gentlemen.

The smell of Sex and Shame we used to joke back in my day. (I think it may be an old family guy quote)

I think the quote was the smell of sweat and shame!

Mazuslongtoenail · 31/01/2024 21:37

Floralnomad · 31/01/2024 17:26

This , we finish , both get given a tissue , go to bathroom - very rarely end up with a wet patch . Simple.

Who’s standing by waiting to hand out the tissues? 🤔

Indifferentchickenwings · 31/01/2024 21:40

AliciaTried · 31/01/2024 16:37

Oh, you're just showing off! Get another couple of sheets. 😄

Yes this ! Get some sheets and enjoy

Blanket601 · 31/01/2024 21:46

For the love of god what the hell is a penis beaker?

And the sex towel thing. If going to the trouble of laying down a towel, why not use a clean towel, rather than a repeatedly used skanky dried out (semen bum) stinky towel.?

ianshe · 31/01/2024 21:52

Nmw09 · 31/01/2024 21:22

I just roll out of the bed and go empty in the loo and get back in.

Same. I work my pelvic floor for this reason and this reason only

socialdilemmawhattodo · 31/01/2024 21:53

JellicleCat · 31/01/2024 17:28

This thread is why Mumsnet needs a like button. 😀

Not just a like button. A crying with laughter button as well!

Youcancallmeirrelevant · 31/01/2024 21:57

harerunner · 31/01/2024 17:44

Besides, even if it mostly stays in at the time, it can dribble out during the night...

Why would it come out during the night? Do you just roll over and go to sleep afterwards and not go to the bathroom to clean up? Honestly couldn't think of anything worse 🤢

EarringsandLipstick · 31/01/2024 22:03

@Youcancallmeirrelevant

You get people are different, right?

I often went to sleep straight after sex, I didn't necessarily need the bathroom, and (God I hope I'm not tempting fate!) I have very luckily never had cystitis.

Many women do have issues with this, but it's not universal!

Youcancallmeirrelevant · 31/01/2024 22:05

EarringsandLipstick · 31/01/2024 22:03

@Youcancallmeirrelevant

You get people are different, right?

I often went to sleep straight after sex, I didn't necessarily need the bathroom, and (God I hope I'm not tempting fate!) I have very luckily never had cystitis.

Many women do have issues with this, but it's not universal!

Yeah i get people are different but to me, and a lot of posters on this thread it seems common sense to go and clean yourselves up afterwards. And honestly i don't know why you wouldn't want to the majority of the time. And OP is saying she doesn't want to change sheets so often

EarringsandLipstick · 31/01/2024 22:11

I know @Youcancallmeirrelevant but I wasn't referring directly to the OP but your 🤢 at posters who may not go to the bathroom afterwards.

Some people want to; some people don't & don't need to. No 🤢 needed.

Onehappymam · 31/01/2024 22:15

I was there as the original penis beaker thread unfolded.

Wonder if the OP ever regretted not changing her username?

EBearhug · 31/01/2024 22:23

You cuddle up after the deed and drift off to sleep, whatever the intentions about going to the bathroom.

It's also possible to use more than one towel and wash them in between uses. Easier than changing the sheets.

auntyElle · 31/01/2024 22:23

Plantmother71 · 31/01/2024 20:09

Just a thought but on the rare occasion that I have sex with my husband he’s a mass producer too. Or used to be. He has an issue with a seminal vesicle (I think that’s what it’s called - not sexy huh but it means it’s like an explosive faucet)! He used to like to do a clean up with baby wipes. Made me feel a bit weird but better that than crusty sheets.

His production turns out to be not quite the stealth boast you thought, OP. A discussion about possible seminal vesicles needed with DP.

EBearhug · 31/01/2024 22:24

Onehappymam · 31/01/2024 22:15

I was there as the original penis beaker thread unfolded.

Wonder if the OP ever regretted not changing her username?

Don't see why. I think most of us don't remember the name. I guess we could all go and check the thread, but no one cares that much, do they? (I don't, at least.)

newyearnewnothing · 31/01/2024 22:26

I've got the sheets but not the sex.
What a waste!

EarringsandLipstick · 31/01/2024 22:27

newyearnewnothing · 31/01/2024 22:26

I've got the sheets but not the sex.
What a waste!

😂

EBearhug · 31/01/2024 22:28

newyearnewnothing · 31/01/2024 22:26

I've got the sheets but not the sex.
What a waste!

Oh no! Clean sheets are one of life's great pleasures, whether shared or alone. Not a waste at all.

Onehappymam · 31/01/2024 22:31

Of course no one remembers the name, but it was in the press at the time. I think most of us would feel a bit weird if our username was plastered all over the papers.

‘Penis beaker’ made it into the urban dictionary and there was even merch on Etsy.

Can’t imagine the average poster on here would have expected that sort of reaction.

madderthanahatter · 31/01/2024 22:31

AMuser · 31/01/2024 16:47

I think I’ve heard it all now

“The room will smell of semen and bum if the bedding isn't changed and room aired. One solution is sex in the bathroom or a large towel on chair or standing up quicky.” The smell of bum indeed @MrTumbleDryer 😂😂

You must have missed the thread about fanny wafts at hotel breakfasts 😁

LorlieS · 31/01/2024 22:32

Who on earth has time to wash and dry bedsheets every time they have a shag?!!

EBearhug · 31/01/2024 22:33

LorlieS · 31/01/2024 22:32

Who on earth has time to wash and dry bedsheets every time they have a shag?!!

People with staff.

LorlieS · 31/01/2024 22:34

@EBearhug Or people who have very infrequent sex I suppose? 😄