Are second years sharing sex?

However, it has not been all fun and games for me. Apparently my walls are significantly thinner than last year, and my floorboards... My housemates are not impressed by my noisy nocturnal antics, and to be honest, I’m not too impressed by theirs. It never crossed my mind that sharing a house would result in keeping my mouth shut and my bed far away from my walls.

My sex life has been invaded. The whole world not only hears me at night, but sees my conquests as they traipse to the shared toilet in their boxers or sneak out of the house in last night’s dishevelled clothes the next morning. It’s worse than hiding boys from the parents - there are only two of them!

I can see where my housemates are coming from: I can't imagine anything more exasperating than being woken up by moans from next door, or a rhythmic banging on the wall. Sex always seems to last so much longer when other people are doing it!

Our house doesn’t have any locks on bedroom doors either which I find rather thrilling. Some housemates have resorted to putting socks/hats/signs on their doors to warn us about what's happening in the privacy of their bedroom. But doesn’t that make their sex life even more public? I can tell you exactly how many times a day/week they have sex and for how long. I wonder if they put the sock there just to make us think they are more promiscuous. I’d be tempted to leave it up permanently.

But what alternative do we have? Besides the obvious don’t have one-night stands banter, do we really have a choice? The way I see it, I could either go home to the guy’s house which is never as comfortable and would disturb his housemates, I could be quieter which is a good intention but never quite works out, or I could abstain. NOT.

Couples must have it even harder. Their respective housemates must have had just about enough rude awakenings. Is sharing sex just another part of living together? We don’t want to admit it but it probably is. We share pretty much everything else already; why not throw in sex too?

Obviously there are limits. Some of my housemates will do the dirty only rarely and always conservatively. Others, not to name names, will have lots of sex. For indeed, many couples and single peeps alike see sex like a Gossip Girl/Scrubs replacement that everyone can enjoy. It lasts around twenty minutes, puts both members to sleep, and is enjoyed by boy and girl.

Thank your lucky stars if your house has thick walls or if your housemates don’t mind listening to you orgasm. (Or be very afraid that you’re exciting more people than just your partner). I suppose the moral is try to time it so that you have sex when all your other housemates are - then no one will know who’s who! Joking. The obvious is to be more considerate, less aerobic and to wear a gag. Because at the end of the day, sex is a private, personal experience not to be shared.

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