[NSFW] The kids are asleep in the tent do you boink in the tent or under the stars?

Outside, but not far from the tent. By the fire sounds nice. Or if possible, in a tree. I’ve kind of always wanted to try that.

@Seek_Kolinahr It’s quite fun until one of you loses their footing or grip on the tree and falls out :P

I’d go without. I don’t have kids, but I don’t think I’d be too comfortable “boinking” their dad without an actual wall separating us. Even if you keep your mouths shut, the motions involved in sex would still be quite noticeable. And lying on the dirt doesn’t sound too fun to me either. I’d prefer not to have bugs crawling up the crack of my ass, thank you.

Then again, you’d never catch me camping with a tent in a million years, so I doubt I’ll ever be faced with such a dilemma.

Yes.

You do not have to satisfy that urge every time!
A few minutes pleasure at risk of doing some damage to the kids? Pass.

Neither. Camping is messy enough as it is.

Neither. Why? Because I hate camping. I hate dirt, I hate bugs, and God help the person who gets on my nerves when I can’t take a proper shower. lol

Further away.

Hearing anybody move that isn’t involved is like a pause button on the proceedings, not sure why.

We’d prefer to do. It, wherever we are when the urge arises.
as always

How old are the kids?

I can go ten days without. The kids are more important. So, my answer is neither.

@anniereborn
Don’t you think that you could keep the noise to a level that wouldn’t wake them up?

I wouldn’t do it in the tent with the kids, but I would do it. Outside, under the stars is nice. I’m not a prude by any means when it comes to sex, I love it.

@uberbatman I was thinking more like a big, wide-branched oak tree. Not some weak little sapling.

@Seek_Kolinahr
After you found your tree and tried it out… please let us know you are all right.

Now I keep worrying about you hurting yourself and I may likely not be alone.

I doubt it’ll ever happen. I’m pretty damn good at climbing trees, but the hubs is about twice my size. Alas.

@whitenoise Yes, but kids can wake up at the most inconvenient times.

Perhaps I need more information on the situation. Does this tent “wall” zip up in such a way that a little kid couldn’t just unzip it and walk in? How old are the kids?

Neither. I’d wait til we got back home with locks on our bedroom doors.

As @Seek_Kolinahr said outside but close enough by to see the tent and know that the kids were still safely inside. I’ll pass on trying it up a tree though!!!

I don’t see why going outside is a better option. If you are close enough to keep an eye on the kids, you are close enough for them to come out and see you. And how fun would it be if you had to keep looking at the tent to make sure no one came out?

@anniereborn – I think it’s about being as responsible as possible while still maintaining your own ideals, who you are, and who you were before having kids.

The slim chance your children wake up, come outside, find you, and catch you in a compromising position is better than the possibility (no matter how slim) that something happens at your campsite and you’re not there to help.

You may see the whole thing as irresponsible, but unless you’re abstaining completely from when the kids are born on, there’s a good chance they’ll at some point be aware of what mommy and daddy are up to. They live in the same house for 18+ years.

Are all of you guys locking your bedroom doors at home? What is this with a fear of your children walking in on you?

Our kids are 11. We’ve done it while they shared our tent, even while they shared our hotel room. They never noticed a thing…

Maybe our kids sleep tighter than normal, or we have an effective wisper mode.

@whitenoise We are getting into a controversial subject. One that many, including myself, have strong opinions on.

Due to what I was exposed to as a child, I feel it is inappropriate for children to be witness to sexual situations. It is not that there is anything “wrong” with sex. It is that they are not mature enough to process such things. Beyond that, it’s their parents, and I think most would agree that that just has an “ick” factor to it.

@funkdaddy I don’t see any reason why that can’t be limited to rooms with locked doors.

@whitenoise Personally, I don’t think the kids walking in on the act is the entire issue. It isn’t for me. However, I will indeed be locking my bedroom door while my husband and I have sex after we have children. When I was a child, I would’ve appreciated if my parents did the same. Also, walking in on your parents having sex is such a bummer for a kid. A day-ruiner for sure, especially when child and parent have to look each other in the eye afterward. There’s no reason kids should see their parents having sex. I think kids should see their parents kiss, hug, touch, and be affectionate, sex is a different thing. It’s a completely normal but private act.

Additionally, I think I’d feel uncomfortable having sex when my children are in view even if I knew they wouldn’t wake up. In the same hotel room? No way. I can certainly go a night without sex. I doubt being so close to my children will have me in a very sexy mood anyway. If I can look to my right and see my kids’ faces, I don’t want to have a penis inside me. The thought creeps me out, quite frankly.

@livelaughlove21 EXACTLY!

I don’t poop with the door open, but I’m pretty sure my kids will figure out what I’m doing in there.

I’d also poop in the woods, within view the camp. Both are completely normal but private acts just as @livelaughlove21 said.

I understand everyone has their own comfort level, and I’m not trying to argue or be “right” at all, @anniereborn, you just seemed genuinely interested in why anyone would feel sneaking in some intimate time was still worthwhile, even with children on the trip.

Some people don’t poop in the woods. Totally personal preference.

Aside from the fact that I would not voluntarily sleep in a tent in the first place, I would not have sex in the tent with my kids there, and I wouldn’t go outside to do it either. Inside, I’d be too bothered about whether they would see us. Outside, I’d be too bothered about whether they were getting into mischief with the camping stove.

Nope, sex would wait until the vacation was over. Which would be “no later than tomorrow” if I had any say in the matter.

@downtide Dude, don’t keep a camping stove in your tent. That’s a bad idea. ;)

@livelaughlove21 Additionally, I think I’d feel uncomfortable having sex when my children are in view even if I knew they wouldn’t wake up.
You missed the detail that it is a three-room tent, with the parents on one end, the kids on the other and the middle room separating the ends is where the gear is; both ends are at least 6–8ft apart.

@glacial @downtide Dude, don’t keep a camping stove in your tent. That’s a bad idea. ;)
That is why he and maybe others will not be camping, they don’t care for it so they do not know the best way to do it. ;-)

@funkdaddy The slim chance your children wake up, come outside, find you, and catch you in a compromising position is better than the possibility (no matter how slim) that something happens at your campsite and you’re not there to help.
FYI if you are behind the right foliage it is akin to a duck blind; you can see the cabin but if anyone came out they could not see you or have any direct view as to see any <ahem> compromising positions. ,

@anniereborn Perhaps I need more information on the situation. Does this tent “wall” zip up in such a way that a little kid couldn’t just unzip it and walk in?
Again, where the parents are and where the kids are is separated by a middle compartment; any kid coming out would be heard because the zipper on their compartment, and they would have to move some gear, a second chance to be heard, so unless the parents are going at it with such abandon they hear nothing, they really could not get caught.

@Nimis How old are the kids?
They are not babies you would not have sleeping by themselves LOL LOL. Would the age’s really matter?

@Hypocrisy_Central That response you quoted was a response to @downtide regarding a hotel room. My original response was for you.

I have never been camping in a tent, so I have no clue what a 3 room one would look like.
With the description having been fully described to me…..yeh, I might well have sex in the tent.

Hmm… Cultural differences, I feel…

@livelaughlove21 Sorry I did not respond to your comment because Then again, you’d never catch me camping with a tent in a million years, so I doubt I’ll ever be faced with such a dilemma. I disqualified you from the question because you could not fathom being in the situation ever because you don’t like tent camping so it would have been as fruitful as asking you about coal mining if because you would never be in a coal mine, could never imagine anything about it.

@Hypocrisy_Central I wasn’t expecting a response. I was simply explaining that the comment you did respond to was not directed at you.

^ I know that, I was telling you a possibility why they made that comment. I know you don’t keep a camp stove in the tent, as well as some other items, but then I camp, so i am not a complete novice.

Actual conversation:

Mom: See that campsite right there, you were conceived in that site.
14 y.o.Daughter: Ewww! Mom! Gross!
Mom: No it’s not. Do you know how many people actually know where they were conceived? Very few.
14 y.o. Daughter: But still, gross!
18 y.o. Son: Hey wait, I was in that tent too!
Mom: You were asleep.
Dad: Pretty soundly too. We hiked your butt off that day. Want to know where you were conceived?
18 y.o. Son: Uh. No. Thanks.

And you know what, nowadays, she actually point out the campsite to friends who go out there with her.

However, to date she has not, and will not, stay in the campsite. (Sacred I guess)

and we did end up telling son where he was conceived later

Nothing could possibly go wrong. You know how children love pretending to be asleep.

Boink.

I don’t have kids but I would probably take a blanket and boink under the stars. I wouldn’t want to leave them alone or I’d be afraid of them waking up so I would put a baby monitor next to them.