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closeupready

(29,503 posts)
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 04:57 PM Jul 2014

Is it just me, or is it creepy when straight couples publicly

slobber over each other - on the subway, the platform, the restaurant, in the park...?

If WE have to check ourselves, then fairness dictates that THEY should check themselves. Go ahead and make babies, but I want no part of it. TIA.

Am I wrong? Maybe I'm just too gay for my own good?

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Is it just me, or is it creepy when straight couples publicly (Original Post) closeupready Jul 2014 OP
"Yuck. Get a room!" Warpy Jul 2014 #1
I wouldn't necessarily say "creepy," but I always think: "Get a room, already." blkmusclmachine Jul 2014 #2
"Creepy" in the sense, 'what, you're looking to start an orgy? closeupready Jul 2014 #5
And what about some straight men always talking about "gay sex"? gwheezie Jul 2014 #3
I'll admit that young love, gay or staight, is cute and sweet all american girl Jul 2014 #4
Well you bias the question with "slobber over" and "Go ahead and make babies." nolabear Jul 2014 #6
haha - yes, was not entirely being serious closeupready Jul 2014 #8
I'm sure the Supreme Court will strike it down in 2020 Cooperstown Jul 2014 #7
I agree! But then I've been accused of being a hippie. troublesome_mind Jul 2014 #9
I don't mind a little PDA Terra Alta Jul 2014 #10
+1. n/t winter is coming Jul 2014 #14
It's a matter of degree ... Joe Magarac Jul 2014 #11
I'm straight but I can sympathize with this view. nomorenomore08 Jul 2014 #12
A little PDA is normal, human. NCLefty Jul 2014 #13
get a room already mitchtv Jul 2014 #15

Warpy

(111,243 posts)
1. "Yuck. Get a room!"
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 05:01 PM
Jul 2014

There is a reason this phrase is pulled out when couples are entirely wrapped around each other in the throes of early passion. It's disgusting to most of us who aren't. We want to see people dry hump in public, we'll go to that kind of bar.

 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
5. "Creepy" in the sense, 'what, you're looking to start an orgy?
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 05:10 PM
Jul 2014

Let me see if I got this - you're out with your boyfriend/girlfriend, publicly dry humping, and the 25 strangers in your presence are supposed to ... what? Masturbate? Join you? Go 'awwww' like on Oprah?"

Just hate that kind of thoughtlessness and narcissism.

gwheezie

(3,580 posts)
3. And what about some straight men always talking about "gay sex"?
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 05:04 PM
Jul 2014

None of my gay friends talk about sex as much as some of these straight folks do.
Who raised them?

all american girl

(1,788 posts)
4. I'll admit that young love, gay or staight, is cute and sweet
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 05:05 PM
Jul 2014

but the all over each other is just plain strange....

nolabear

(41,959 posts)
6. Well you bias the question with "slobber over" and "Go ahead and make babies."
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 05:40 PM
Jul 2014

I'm in the "kissing is sweet category, and actual groping of the naughty bits by anyone isn't considerate of those of us who might be really uncomfortable.

But I suspect your tongue is at least in the general vicinity of your cheek, if not someone else's.

 

Cooperstown

(49 posts)
7. I'm sure the Supreme Court will strike it down in 2020
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 05:47 PM
Jul 2014

Or maybe they will all be having sex with each other by then.

Your guess, my vote: everybody slobbers all over each other if they want to.

Making love is a good kind of cool.

troublesome_mind

(37 posts)
9. I agree! But then I've been accused of being a hippie.
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 07:53 PM
Jul 2014

I'm all for a healthy show of affection. Doesn't bother me one bit. Just bask in the love, Baby. Gay, straight, couples, multiples...I'm good with all of it.

Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
10. I don't mind a little PDA
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 11:24 PM
Jul 2014

holding hands, hugging, a peck on the cheek.

But couples making out, slobbering over each other -- whether gay or straight -- I don't want to see that in public. Call me a prude but some things need to be private.

 

Joe Magarac

(297 posts)
11. It's a matter of degree ...
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 07:17 AM
Jul 2014

Where to draw the line?

Not sure exactly, but it's somewhere between holding hands and fully clothed whole body foreplay.

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)
12. I'm straight but I can sympathize with this view.
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 06:28 PM
Jul 2014

I mean, ideally, a same-sex couple ought to be able to hold hands etc. just like an opposite-sex couple, but no one of any gender should be "circling the bases" in broad daylight before the eyes of others.

mitchtv

(17,718 posts)
15. get a room already
Fri Jul 4, 2014, 03:19 PM
Jul 2014

We are much better off in that respect here in US than say, Argentina where lack of back seats other than Fiats forces parks into the options a couple can attempt,many more live with parents too, The benches are busy after dark.

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