Sex in the presence of your pet

Do you remember that scene from Sex and the City where Harry and Charlotte are having sex while baby Brady (from Miranda) is in the room with them? And wakes up? And Charlotte has a full-blown panic attack because the little boy has seen Harry's big boy? “Take it easy,” Miranda replies when Charlotte calls her hyperventilating. “He's nine months old. He doesn't even know where his nose is.”

Having sex with children around is tricky. If there's a baby in the crib nearby, you might still be able to do some dirty talking under your duvet or carefully hang out the starfish, but the real deal, I don't know. It still feels a bit awkward.

Meanwhile, my kids are at the age where we can keep them sweet with a little Harry Potter, but then suddenly there's the dog. You're romantically tangled up on the couch and from one thing almost comes another, and there are suddenly two of those innocent eyes looking at you, with a tilted head. That's quite the anti-aphrodisiac. By the way, I wrote about this how sex is when you've been together for a long time. 

I did a little survey in the editorial team. Do you have a pet? And do you have sex? Then you could join my test panel. The outcome of my little empirical research is that no one has sex with the pet around. Before foreplay starts, the little S is put in the crate and after the deed, he can come out again. N is not welcome during the love play, but suppose she walks in during the action, then her female owner wants to stop and send her away, but her beloved will not take a little love break to send the dog away.

Another colleague is a foster mother to dog S. They don't live extremely spacious, so S is everywhere. Even when they walk out of the shower naked. Her beloved has his thoughts about that.

Yet another colleague doesn't have a dog but has cats. She calmly sends the cats away before the big love game begins. But if they come in during the act, well, what to do? Maybe just cowardly look the other way and hope the cat never talks? By the way, these are the cutest Insta-cats, but that aside.

I decided to do some research on the internet and of course ended up on forums. There hasn't really been any research done on the perception of sex while your pet is watching. However, I found the story of a woman who was seriously baking children with her husband. Suddenly she looked to the right and saw their sweet labrador sitting next to the bed. With his head tilted, he looked curiously at all the sounds being made. At the moment of truth, her husband groaned and their dog started making very strange wolf sounds. What do you think? Pregnant!