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" A 47 year old woman was recently arrested when over twenty five of her neighbors complained she was too loud during sex. Apparently her husband was equally vocal. The noises included moans and screaming... as if someone was &amp;quot;in pain&amp;quot;. I can&amp;#039;t help but laugh when I compare this marriage to mine. With two kids in the next room, Rex and I might as well be arrested for being too quiet. &amp;quot;Their two kids look just like them both,&amp;quot; our neighbors might say, &amp;quot;But we never hear a thing. Maybe their munchins were stolen. Call the cops!&amp;quot; I feel mixed about the whole shouting during sex thing. Part of me can understand the community&amp;#039;s concern. After all, if I were teaching Stink to pedal a two-wheeler, I wouldn&amp;#039;t want to hear from Jack&amp;#039;s second story window, &amp;quot;Ooooh, yeah, keep a steady grip! Yes, keep on riding it baby!&amp;quot; If I were trying to explain to Pip the importance of looking both ways before crossing the cull de sac, it would be frustrating to hear, &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t stop! Just cross the line... you can do it! Oooh, watch out for that hole though!&amp;quot; On the other hand, I admire this woman&amp;#039;s lack of inhibitions. She claims that she wasn&amp;#039;t being too loud at all. That sex is natural and why shouldn&amp;#039;t she have a great time? Well, ain&amp;#039;t that the rub? (Pun intended given the subject matter.) Sex is indeed natural, but everyone has their own standards about what is proper and what is not. Take the subject matter of this column, for example. While I&amp;#039;m perfectly comfortable discussing the shifting place of sex in marriage, many of my friends have claimed they could never be so open about their own lives. (Doesn&amp;#039;t keep them from reading about mine, of course. Ahem. You know who you are.) Still, many others think I&amp;#039;m holding too much back. I&amp;#039;d love to hear your thoughts on the social ettiquette of noise during sex. Is there a time and a place to announce to the world how fabulous your man feels - such as discreetly in a blog or over a loud speaker while the church bbq is happening down the road? And perhaps even more importantly, if you had all the privacy in the world, would you participate in really vocal sex? If not, why? As for me, I&amp;#039;m not really a screamer. (Ask my kids and that&amp;#039;s another story, but unlike my fictional neighbor who might be comfortable with her body parts on display, I don&amp;#039;t want Pip&amp;#039;s little body smushed by a truck.) As for tonight, I&amp;#039;m not sure whether to scream in ecstasy that the kids are already asleep, or enjoy a long night of muffled love-making on the antiqued bed with Rex. Knowing us we&amp;#039;ll settle for a new episode of Hells Kitchen and a quickie before heading up stairs, only to then wake the kids as I predictable drop a water glass or stub my toe in the hallway. Yeah, we&amp;#039;re that exciting. (And I wouldn&amp;#039;t have it any other way.) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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