Sexual Activity Banned in Dorm Rooms

Alright, I see the blog is off to a good start (thank you, Brandon). I love the enthusiasm so far…

Recently, Tufts University, located near Boston with an undergraduate enrollment of just over 5,000 students, banned any sexual activity in the dorms while a roommate is present. “There were incidents that occurred last year, and in the past, where residents of rooms started to feel uncomfortable with what their roommates were doing in the room,” Carrie Ales-Rich, assistant director for community and judicial affairs in the residential life office said. “It’s really a matter of respecting roommates’ need for sleep, study time and privacy.”

First of all, what constitutes sexual activity? Holding hands? Kissing? Getting a handjob under a blanket? And how are you going to enforce this? What if the roommates are lesbian lovers? I think the complaints are probably coming from loser roommates who are not only failing to get any, but are extremely jealous that their roommates are.

Talk about a cockblock. Imagine meeting some girl at a bar but instead of taking her back to your place, you have to say, “Well my loser roommate will tell on me if you come over, but my car is in the parking lot!”

I’m guessing some people might say, “Who would want to have sex with someone else in the room?” Why the hell not? That’s part of the fun. Some of the best stories I have from my freshmen year center around someone having sex while other people were in the room. If your sexual performances are so bad that you’re embarrassed about your roommate finding out about them then you deserve to be made fun of.

Instead of making rules against the person getting laid, they should have made rules for the person who wasn’t getting any. Either A) Get a camera B) Ask if he can tag you in or C) just leave or learn to live with it.