It’s happened to all of us.
You’re laying in your narrow dorm bed trying to somehow get comfortable on your ancient mattress when your hear it. The squeak of a spring. The rustle of blankets. The creak of a bedpost. Maybe a giggle or two.
Your roommate is hooking up. In the bed just feet away from you.
Students at Tufts University are now prohibited from engaging in “any sex act in a dorm room while one’s roommate is present.” So Tufts kids looking to get some without consideration to their roomie, best think twice before getting busy in their bunk bed.
A crackdown on sexy time?
The regulation also states that “sexual activity in the room should not interfere with a roommate’s privacy, study habits or sleep.” So no more late night “study sessions,” either.
Apparently, at Tufts, this was the most common source of disagreement between roommates and ResLife there hopes the policy will help kids come to a resolution and compromise in these (dare we say it) sticky situations.
Is this a new rule that ResLife here at this university should consider? Well, with the influx of forced triples and quads here on campus, this could be quite a challenge. With multiple roommates and a set of bunk beds, we feel like the odds of running into this situation are both higher and even more uncomfortable (anyone who has ever had to share a bunk bed knows what I am talking about.)
On the other hand, maybe it is just not a problem here at this university. I mean haven’t the kids at Tufts heard of the simple yet staunch principle of “sexiling” we all learn our freshmen year? If your roommate is next you with an unknown guest, both hidden by blankets, isn’t that a cue to grab your pillow and head to your best friend’s floor?
To be honest who knows. But as someone who has lived in the dorms and in a triple, I have no trouble imagining that a policy like this would go unenforced here as well.