Hey,we don't call this "the sex apartment" for nothin'!

[cosmolinguist]

Random assertion my roommate made to her boyfriend and another roommate: "my dildo isn't that loud!"

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[chuck-lw.livejournal.com]

One of those ghetto blaster dildos, eh?:-P

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah, I guess so. It's probably a good thing; the sex can be obtrusive enough as it is, around here. (See this and this for verification. :-)

[chuck-lw.livejournal.com]

Ah. So sex can be used as an effective barrier. Maybe it can be used in riot control, but that depends on what the riot is all about.

[paninogirl.livejournal.com]

I'm disturbed.

I think I am more bothered by the rampant sexuality preventing your wonderful roomie SJ from being able to live normally than she is herself.

I remember my roomie Anna sophomore year staying a few nights at her friend Susan's apartment because one of our roomies was just plain rude and snotty towards us for no reason, particularly Anna. She cited her reason for staying with her friend "because she didn't feel welcome in her own home."

I'm not saying that SJ doesn't feel welcome in her own home, but I would feel awkward and uncomfortable living in an apartment the size of the on-campus ones in Morris and not being able to come out of the bathroom to make it to class on time, or get food when I'm hungry, because my roommate and her boyfriend couldn't keep their hands to themselves -- and be quiet about it for that matter. Granted, they are cool stories to share with other people, but when they're a more than one-time occurrence, don't you think it'd get a little old, and probably aggravating? If I remember correctly, there have been at least 3 cited instances of sex in the living room this semester -- but many more may have gone uncited for all I know.

Living at college hopefully teaches you how to compromise and be respectful of your space and the space of others. I don't know if these situations SJ's been faced with are very respectful.

Maybe I'd be more uncomfortable than she is, though, and more up-front about my discomfort...

...all I know is that people can do what they want to do when they want to do it, and all l I request is that I don't know about it (e.g. not hearing or seeing anything) and that it doesn't interfere with my daily routine.

Heh, you might want SJ to have a look at this. Have her tell me if she's bothered by these encounters, or if she finds them amusing.

Maybe I'm the oddball who doesn't desire seeing/hearing the free porn. :)

I hope that you can at least see my perspective on the whole thing. :)

[cosmolinguist]

(I have been writing papers all day and so if this is incoherent or bad, I'm sorry. :-) )

Well, I am sorry to have disturbed you, Rachel. :-)

I think I am more bothered by the rampant sexuality preventing your wonderful roomie SJ from being able to live normally than she is herself. Probably true. The first time this happened and Sarah and I told the story to our friends, they tended to say things like "Doesn't this bother you?" It, in fact, did not; we found it merely an amusing story.

If this were a habitual thing, yes, I'd be unhappy and would probably say something--I don't care what my roommates do, or with whom, but I don't want to be around people who are having sex, because that's just creepy. But I don't think that's the case. I wasn't around for this weekend's sex-barrier incident, but I can say that the first time it happened did seem like quite an anamoly to us--I mean, who has sex in the living room at 10:00 on a weekday morning (unless they live alone, of course :-D)? They only did it that once.

I think it helps that Sarah and I--"the less promiscuous of the elf whores," as Seth called us--are sharing a room. Of course, the loft we have is precarous enough when we are both on it, so there's nowhere in here to have sex anyway, but that's a different story anyway. :-) It also helps that our roommate and her boyfriend do actually do most of their sex-having at times and places when no one is likely to walk in on them.

Mostly, we just don't think about things too much. :-) Maybe we're just too busy. I have four more papers to write by next week, but only two finals after that!

[paninogirl.livejournal.com]

Hmm...well...good luck to you then, I guess? :-/