# Are you a member of the mile high club? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611 "2012-05-31T02:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611/41 "2012-06-01T04:52:10Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Didn’t realize anyone even read those posts, much less remembered them. But I promise I’ll never force you to read one of my posts ever again. Better yet, why not just get a hooker? That way, you’ll see there is nothing to be scared of. 🙂 That way you won’t need to gratuitously drop your poor ole’ no-sex getting status in on so many threads. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611/42 "2012-06-01T05:25:30Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Is this even A Thing? I know it’s urban legend, but I don’t see how it’s possible unless airplane bathrooms used to be a lot bigger. The couple times I’ve flown, there absolutely was not enough room in the bathroom for two people, not even two REALLY skinny people. Also, wouldn’t the two unoccupied seats (not to mention the post-coital walk of shame) be a red flag for the flight attendants? Wait a second…you’re saying you’re supposed to go to the bathroom to do it? ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611/43 "2012-06-01T05:28:46Z")
I got myself off up there once…does that qualify me for the Half Mile High Club? ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611/44 "2012-06-01T05:54:32Z")
I’m sort of a member, if mutual masturbation counts. Even if it doesn’t, it’s considered quite a badge of honour among my friends, and that’s what really counts.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611/45 "2012-06-01T10:14:35Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Better yet, why not just get a hooker? That way, you’ll see there is nothing to be scared of. 🙂 That way you won’t need to gratuitously drop your poor ole’ no-sex getting status in on so many threads. Don’t take this the wrong way, but… that’s your contribution to the discussion here? At least he’s going as far as talking about planes. That’s half-way on topic right there. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ExcitedIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea5d25/32.png) [@ExcitedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExcitedIdiot)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611/46 "2012-06-02T17:10:49Z")
> [@si\_blakely](#): > > Then, one participant pretends to to be ill (bag to face, bent over, whatever), and the other “assists” them into the bathroom. Retching noises can be then used to cover up any telltale sounds. How romantic. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611/47 "2012-06-02T19:20:16Z")
Um… Helicopter pilots get nosebleeds above 500 feet AGL. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611/48 "2012-06-02T19:54:44Z")
The bomb bay of a B-52D in 1978. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611/49 "2012-06-02T20:52:42Z")
A few times on trans-oceanic FAM trips with [del]drunken[/del] agreeable young travel agent lasses and a Swissair stewardess. I was MUCH skinnier back then, so the lav was an option. Also empty back rows in the middle of the night were nice. I also used to have my own [plane](http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/3/2/3/0236323.jpg), and autopilot made things easier. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611/50 "2012-06-02T21:09:33Z")
I met a woman on a plane and had sex with her later that night in Salt Lake City, which is a little short of a mile high. It was on about the 14th floor of the downtown Marriott, though, so maybe that made up for it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611/51 "2012-06-02T21:37:54Z")
Having sex in a bathroom has always seemed repellent to me. Standing in someone’s piss, or having the chemical smells around whilst having sex smacks of desperation on everyone’s part. I knew guys in the Navy who did this at ground level in our shop bathroom, on a cot next to the urinals. Mmmm…urinal cakes…how romantic. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611/52 "2012-06-02T21:49:06Z")
That actually came into play during my encounter. While we were snuggling and playing with each other in our seats, I thought of suggesting the bathroom but decided I was comfortable enough where we were. Afterwards, when I mentioned it to her, she said she had considered the bathroom too, but thought it would have been too cold and uncomfortable. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611/53 "2012-06-03T14:45:34Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > I assume only PiV sex, to completion, qualifies? Why? Aren’t PiA and PiM, among other things, considered sex? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-member-of-the-mile-high-club/623611.md?page=2)