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Yes, but if one must have sex in the workplace, I would rather it be in a designated area than, say, on my desk. I want to know what surfaces genitals have been pressed against and where, with a reasonable degree of confidence, they haven't.

I'm not even hung up about the sex at all, if it's consensual you do you and or whomever you like, but it's a matter of hygiene.

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14346328 and marked it off-topic.

I can understand why you would want to prune the thread but it's not off-topic. It relates directly to the topic.

I don't disagree. "Marked as off topic" also has a technical meaning here.

> I want to know what surfaces genitals have been pressed against and where

If it's rampant at my company, then call me rather remaining blissfully ignorant.

(I'll just buy Purell in bulk to be sure)

One shouldn't must have sex in office. So simple no ?

If you are reserve a room for sex, you(boss) are simply saying to all your employees that they can do whatever they wants in office and imho is not good for culture neither.

In your office there is a room for sex ?

> One shouldn't must have sex in office. So simple no ?

Well, yes, but if people are going to anyway, might as well have a place for it.

>In your office there is a room for sex ?

I work at an Amazon fulfillment center. If there were a room for sex, it wouldn't be allowed in my process path due to insufficient rate.

A6 (1 minute)... Sex (2 minutes)... J32 (5 minutes)... Sleep (180 minutes)...

Sounds like the future to me!

If people are going to be assholes anyway, might as well have a designated swastika room too, right? A company isn't required to fulfill the every desire of their employees.

I merely stated that were sex in the workplace to be considered inevitable, and it probably should be, that it would be preferable not to just let it be had anywhere. I never insisted that any company be required to do anything.

Also, it's weird that of all the things you could have compared sex to, you picked "being an asshole" and, apparently, racism.

You know sex is a good thing, right?

Why would sex in the workplace be considered "inevitable"? Is watching March Madness or Game of Thrones likewise inevitable and thus a good employer should furnish a rec room with HD TV? Perhaps some do. But many others assert that they provide fair working hours and wages to their employees which allow employees plenty of time to go home (and even take vacation days) to enjoy such recreation, rather than have it be a distracting accessory to the workplace.

>Is watching March Madness or Game of Thrones likewise inevitable and thus a good employer should furnish a rec room with HD TV?

Sexual intercourse is a fundamental human drive, whereas watching television is not. That said, many employers do, in fact, have HDTVs in a breakroom or somewhere similar.

Despite it being banned in every workplace in the western world, sex at work is commonplace. When people want to do it, they're going to do it - that's what makes it inevitable.

No one MUST have sex in the workplace.

If you do you should be immediately terminated. End of story.

Why? It's none of your business what I do on my lunch break.

It is company business if you do it in their property.

Why? I shit on company property, during company time and use company resources doing it, is it their business if I scrunch or fold the toilet paper?

Assuming you agree they don't, things become a matter of where and why you draw the line.

Try shitting in your company bathtoom's urinals or sinks. Then tell us whether your company considered it their business.

That's a great example of a double standard. Unlike sex there are obvious negative health effects and DoS for non-participants, yet the most I've seen a company do is put up a passive aggressive poster or send a strongly worded email from HR. Without the threat of sexual harassment lawsuits they trust us to be self policing adults.

Well, I'm not a labor law expert, but in the state of New York, it is mandated for all employers to follow these posting requirements, which include a multilingual-document from the NY State Division of Human Rights regarding state discrimination and human rights laws:

https://labor.ny.gov/workerprotection/laborstandards/employe...

Federal law mandates a different set of documents to be posted in the work place: https://www.dol.gov/general/topics/posters/

It is if you're doing it in the office. Seriously, at least go out to your car, or just go home.

SO what's the distinguishing feature that makes a car ok but not the office? Is it the proximity to you or something about the office? Does the car being in the company parking lot make a difference?

How is going going to a car around the corner fundamentally different to a sex room in the office?

There is no way you are asking these questions in good faith.

Stay away from the photo-copier.

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