Sex and Roommates Don't Mix at Tufts Univ.

Students at Tufts University in Medford-Somerville, Mass., need to think twice before having sex in their dorm rooms. A new policy prohibits students from engaging in sexual activity while their roommates are present, according to the Office of Residential Life and Learning handbook.

A new addition to the Tufts student handbook prohibits students from having sex when a roommate is present.

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In the past few years, Tufts "had received perhaps a dozen expressions of concern from students about situations involving a roommate and his or her guest engaging in sexual activity that made the student uncomfortable," Tufts spokeswoman Kim Thurler said. "As a result, the Office of Residential Life and Learning added a provision to its guest policy to make it clear that such behavior was not acceptable."

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The new provision in the handbook also prohibits students from engaging in what is commonly called "sexiling," which is when a roommate asks another roommate to leave the room so the other can engage in sexual activity. Students cannot ask their roommates to leave the room in order to have sex, under the new stipulation.

A Tufts freshman who we'll refer to as Meredith, to protect her identity, said she is indifferent to the ban. While she has never been in the room while a roommate began being intimate with someone, she has accidentally walked into a heated situation.

Meredith said early last week she walked into her dorm room, only to find her roommate was not alone. "I opened the door and saw that something was going on and closed it right away." She later learned, from her roommate, that her roommate was having sex.

Meredith said she found the whole situation to be rather amusing. She admitted that she, too, has also had a roommate walk into the room while she was being intimate with a guest.