College: No dorm room hanky-panky if your roomie is around

Tufts University's new rules say that "you may not engage in sexual activity while your roommate is present in the room." The school says the rule was issued after it got about a dozen complaints from students "who expressed concerns that they were experiencing uncomfortable situations with their roommates’ sex-tracurricular activities." (Boston Herald)

Comments

[thomas]

Miss the bucolic days of higher education when roomies shared everything.

[Phranqlin]

No dorm room nookie? That's half the fun of higher education!

[Wal-Mart Security]

Holy cow, next thing you know this will catch on, and we'll have some suit coming in with a rule banning sex with manequins. There goes the Saturday night after hours parties then!!!!!

[Bill]

What happens if you want to have sex with your roommate?

Does one of you have to go out in the corridor?

[LimeGreenLizard]

What about wanking?

[vksjk]

They're adults! Leave them the hell alone.

[lester]

when my roommate started doing this, i got a tennis ball and started bouoncing it on the wall over his bed. fixed the problem pronto.

[outofsalt]

It's pretty sad they have to make a rule about this. It's just common sense - and common decency.

[Torgo]

"Dude, we were all like sex-tracurricular. Heh-heh. Woooo!"

[Displaced]

As far as I can tell, there have always been a few people who would cross crazy lines. I was visiting a friend once when her roommate came home with a guy and started having sex. The room was one of those with two twin beds.

My friend had to yell at her roommate and they had to come up with some rules. Now I'm betting that the offended students called their mothers, which led to their mothers calling all over the administration, which led to this "rule." This is just a way for administrators to get back to work and stop dealing with aspects of students' lives they never had to deal with before.

[DCer]

I hated that part of dorm life. I felt like such a prude, but would run off to the library until 1am.

[Bad Girl]

When I was in college, my roomie and I shared everything. We were in our room...alot!

[RockyMtnMac]

..aww! They are suckin' the fun right out of college.

[johnjohn]

Thank goodness my college room-mate was a homely, bookish nerd!

Oh wait, that was me! Bummer....

[The_Overdog]

If my roommates had ever done this, I'd film them, then paintball, and then badger for sloppy seconds.

[Bad Girl]

My roomate and I did shows on our webcam, in disguise! It paid for our senior years!!

[LimeGreenLizard]

Dang, Bad Girl! You're our kind!

[buddy]

this would have resolved so many issues for me and jim when we were college roommates.

[sometimesilie]

Dear OS&RR,

A funny thing happened to me today on the way to Biology...

[Bad Girl]

I just wish I had some new people to play with on camera. Now that school is over, I still gotta make ends meet.

[Charles]

At our school you made sure you brought someone for you roomie to gnaw on.

[nauip]

where's the entrepreneurial spirit? Get a camera and sell the video online!

[me]

My college banned drugs in dorms. Didn't stop anyone who wanted to use them though.

Also, when I was in college, most people who shared rooms would have been cogratulating their roomate on the conquest if they were present. If not, then there'd be an agreed upon policy that one roomie could have time in the dorm with a lady friend on request, for, say, 1 hour.

Of course, I also had acquaintences in college who would have hapily joined in if their roomie brought home a girl.

[HardWoodenCue]

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