Share a roof long enough and the subject comes up. Someone’s partner starts staying five nights a week. The walls turn out to be drywall and wishful thinking. Two housemates who swore it was just a cheeky flirt are suddenly doing the 6am kitchen dance in yesterday’s clothes.
Sex in share houses is one of those things everyone deals with and nobody sets ground rules for. Until there’s a problem.
The articles collected here tackle the awkward bits honestly. When does a partner stop being an overnight guest and start being an unpaid tenant? Is sleeping with your flatmate ever a good idea, and how do you handle it when it ends? What do you do about the housemate whose bedroom acoustics could wake the neighbours? How do mixed gender, same sex and queer share houses handle the practicalities differently?
No judgement, no prudery, no pretending share houses are sexless zones. Just practical advice for adults living with other adults.
When your flatmate goes HUMP in the night… Sex is part of life. It’s natural, necessary, healthy even. Unless you’re living in shared accommodation and your housemate’s promiscuous sex life is beginning to make you feel awkward. Are you kept […]
Is your flatmate’s wild sex life awkward to live with? Read More »
You probably know where this is going, but we’ll spell it out for you slowly. When you’re in the business of flatmate-ing (get it?), you’re choosing someone who might accidentally see you run across the corridor naked from the bathroom,
How to have THE talk with your flatmate. Yes, that talk. Read More »
An interesting story made its way across our desk a little while ago, and it got us thinking. Am I one of those professionals others like to live with? In Australia, it seems that people want to share a house
Chef, doctor or lawyer – who is the best housemate Read More »
Recently we came across a friend of flatmate.com who was upset with her flatmate as she suspected she’d been having sex on the shared couch, to make matters worse it was with a random after a big night out. We
Flatmate has sex in the shower and I heard everything… Read More »
Picture this. You’ve just moved in with two strangers from a listing site. Things are good. Great, even. There’s a nice vibe, the bathroom roster hasn’t been discussed but everyone seems to be figuring it out, and no one has
The Flatmate Understanding: The House Rule Agreement You Actually Need Read More »
When you go hump in the night and have sex with your housemate! Sleeping with a flatmate can be as adventurous as any other type of relationship. If the sexual tension is there, or even better, builds over time, it
What to do when you’ve just had sex with a flatmate Read More »
