Nope, but I’ve been walked in on by my fiance’s father… that was truly funny. We had been in the midst of it, we hear a knock, we “uncouple” and I’m just sitting there naked 'cause I just don’t care if someone walks in, and after a couple knocks, he walks in, stammers, “oh, shit, I’m sorry, excuse me,” and then closes the door quickly. So yeah, my fiance’s father has seen how much I shave… big deal, but he sure was embarassed. I guess he wasn’t expecting my nonchalance after not answering a joking question of how good his son was in bed. [Don’t ask, they just like to tease him 'cause he’s having sex.] He waits for us to finish and my fiance to come out of the room and, of course, he bitches at him about at least saying “I’m busy right now” when he hears a knock on the door. Oh, in case you were wondering, there’s no lock on the door to my fiance’s bedroom, and we just don’t care if there was or not.
But we’ve gotten away with worse things, like having sex while other people were sleeping in the same room as us. Thank goddess I’ve learned to be quiet when needed.
I think sex is regarded by most people to be a private act between those involved. In many cases, the people involved in the act feel that they’re very vulnerable and let their guards down. I wouldn’t want anyone walking in on me during sex, and likewise, I would be embarrassed to walk in on anyone else doing it, because it’s an intrusion on their privacy. So that explains part of it.
The parents thing? Well, I think it depends on the particulars of your parents’s relationship, and how you viewed them. I, for example, find it gross because I know my parents have a terrible marriage, and I can’t imagine being sexually intimate with someone I’m constantly at war with. Some people view their parents as somewhat god-like, and don’t want to think of them as having human failings or urges. And some folks have hangups about sex in general.
I agree that the lying about showering together is pretty stupid. I think it’s stupid to deny that you have sex, or to hold the opinion that parents ought to deny it to their kids. But actually witnessing the can be a very different thing in the minds of many, because of the privacy issue and/or hangups people have about sex in general.
I think this thread was started 'cause walking in on Mom and Dad can lead to much hilarity.
OH i didnt care they were showering together, i thought it was really funny, but my mom was a prude, she wouldnt kiss in front of anyone, she was so mortified at being caught…
god that was so funny, her trying to explain it away hahaha
Having the room directly next to my parents, the incident that occurs ‘once in a blue moon’ still freaks the hell out of me. Fortunately, I’ve never walked in on my parents doing it*, however, being in the next room, that five minutes (or thereabouts) sure seemed like an eternity.
The weirdest experience was when we were staying at my Aunt’s holiday house (which was built on the side of a hill and consequently is sort of on stilts) and everyone’s gone to bed and my parents were at it, and I’m trying to convince myself it wasn’t happening but the holiday house was shaking!
::shudder::
*although I think this might explain instances when I was younger, when catching Dad hop out the bed in the nude, I was given the explanation that “Dad doesn’t like wearing pyjamas”. What, not even in Winter?!
Jeez, folks. What’s the problem? Parents fuck. You are living proof that your parents fucked at least once. Why be so shocked that they do it? Why is it some how icky?
Back on topic:
You’ve got some really wimpy folks, let me tell ya’. My room a floor up and at the other end of the house from my parent’s room and I couldn’t begin to tell you how many times I heard them grunting groaning in the night. No shock, no surprise. Sometimes a little irritating when I was tired and couldn’t get to sleep for the sound effects.
I think some of the expressed revulsion is due to the incest taboo, and the fact that most of the sexuality you see is presented as fodder for sexual fantasy. You see nudie magazines, T&A or sex in films, etc., all with the intent of turning on the viewer. So when you run into a situation where you walk in on your parents having sex, you’ve practically been conditioned to think “see sex = get turned on”, and that runs headlong into the incest taboo.
I was talking with a male friend, who related the story of hanging out with his sister’s boyfriend and talking with him. The guy started saying what a wild woman the sister was in bed, and my friend quickly just tried to shut him up. He didn’t want the mental image of his sister having sex, and I expect you’d be worried that might accidentally pop into mind at bad times. I can just imagine that actually seeing a family member having sex would be much more difficult to get out of your head.
