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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
My, how morals change. In Appalachia (where I grew up), it was common for single room cabins to house generations. People had sex in front of one another all the time, although probably not quite as openly as these folks. One set of my great-grandparents lived with her family for a few years after they got married in Southern Mississippi in a house slightly bigger than my living room. I refuse to believe that newlyweds in the 1880's were any different than those today.
Do I particularly want to have sex in front my kid? No, but that doesn't mean that I think someone is doing their own child harm by making the opposite decision, especially when the child is of an age to start to understand what's going on. I have a nephew who will be 3 in a few months and is still breastfeeding. Is that lewd too?
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That final question is a good one, and the points you make are also good. I know a fair amount of parents that coslept with their children when the kids were very young, and I also know some hippie parents whose house had a sleeping loft instead of bedrooms, so everyone was in the same room--meaning yes, the parents did have sex, and yes, the kids were there, but usually sleeping.
As long as they didn't force the 9-year-old to watch, I have a hard time believing that this is worthy of a felony conviction.