How Boinkable Is Your Bed?
Living in a densely populated city — especially one as popular and exciting as New York — means making a few compromises. Rent is expensive, apartments are small, it’s not uncommon to have roommates well into your thirties (and sometimes beyond)… and sometimes, you end up sleeping in a bed like this:
That is my bed. It’s a loft — not an uncommon thing in a city where space is at a premium and 8×8 “bedrooms” can rent for over $1000. If I sit up, I bump my head on the ceiling — and yes, it does complicate the, uh, “cowboy action.”
Where do you sleep? What’s your set up like — and how boinkable is it? Send us pictures, send us your story — and get the chance to win free porn (guaranteed to make any living situation more boinkable).
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I live in a 2,600 square foot house with two acres in the back. I won’t post any pictures, I’ll just spitefully let you imagine what my bedroom must look like…
April 14th, 2008 at 9:12 am$1,000 a month for a closet/prison cell/tube hotel? With a ceiling so low that you could fracture your skull by waking from a nightmare (my crummy little upstate town’s housing codes would never permit such a thing)? No thanks. I’d rather commute, even with gas prices being what they are!
Seriously, about 20 years ago, some friends of mine were paying almost their entire paycheck for a tiny apartment in a slummy building in NY. They moved across the river to NJ and their rent eased considerably and their digs were *much* nicer than what they had in Manhattan.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:54 amC.S. LEWISTON: Yeah, but then you have to live in New Jersey…
April 14th, 2008 at 10:59 amMy rent’s not that bad. And I get to walk to everything I want to do. Except when “what I want to do” is visit Blakeley, who’s lame enough to live in Brooklyn.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:00 amGO NYC! I would so love to live there. Fav place on earth.
I have a tatami like bed, a bit harder than its comfy, still love it for sex and sleeping. but my fav feature is the window right by this really busy street (low 1st floor). So vouyerism/exhibitionism is right at hand.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:11 pmMy best friend has a “no boys” rule in her bed because it’s a loft and it’s ikea.
My best friend is also a lovely trollop so she’s learned how to have very still and very satisfying sex.
I have a big queen sized bed in a nice dark room. My dream piece of bedroom sex equipment? The tantra chair.
http://www.tantrachair.com
I’ve sat (not screwed) in one of these and loved it. Of course it’s 1000 bucks
April 14th, 2008 at 2:37 pmOn a related note: I’ve actually been meaning to ask Boinkology Labs to investigate (or research the experiments of others, if that’s cheaper) how boinkable these newfangled “memory foam” space-age mattresses are, or the “sleep number” bed.
All the commercials talk about is how good they are to sleep on. They’re missing half the point, eh?
April 16th, 2008 at 10:51 pmc.s. lewiston: 20 years ago it was 1988! your friends paycheck must have been extremely small.
re: my bed, which also responds to improbable, to some degree: i have a 3 inch memory foam topper on my bed. it is -not- tempur pedic, just something i got from overstock.com. it is sweet awesome. for sleeping. for sex, it leaves a little to be desired. the angles get a little off. and the sinky feeling is odd. the other thing is, we somehow managed to tear the topper. i’m not positive, but from the location of the tear (it’s torn all the way through), i’m pretty sure it’s from missionary position sexing (which, by the way, is my favorite position, because apparently i am totally old fashioned. oh, and it feels awesome.). something about pushing with the feets and hands at the same time? this has led my fantasy to own a real tempur-pedic bed to diminish, because man, can you imagine tearing a mattress that cost you like 10,000 dollars? oh, and we also shredded a few sheets, which seems to have something to do with the topper strain.
i’d imagine the sleep number bed doesn’t pose this problem, but i don’t know. it looks like a fairly normal bed. there are some hotels that feature tempur-pedics though and i have to imagine people have sex on them and the hotels don’t shut down from having to replace the mattresses. unless maybe the mattresses are so comfortable sex would be a step down. and i’m not convinced that wouldn’t be the case.
for like 18 months, my bed was up at an angle (because of acid reflux issues). no memory foam, regular mattress. and that wasn’t conducive to sex really. we’d always end up at the bottom end of the bed, and hit parts of our bodies on the dresser that’s there, and not in an erotic way. in a painful, ok, i don’t really want to have sex right now way. though, when we’d put our heads towards the lower end, that added some well received gravity. until my head hit the dresser.
i also think you should add water beds to those experiments, if only because i think they are actually not very conducive to sexy times, despite their image.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:06 amWhen I was at SXSW, Jonno (of Fleshbot fame) had a sleep number bed in his room, and I got to see what it was like. For lying on, not for sex. It’s basically a normal bed — though if you and your partner had different sleep numbers, and you were banging in the center of the bed where the two halves meet, that would be weird.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:27 amOh come now Lux, all the cool kids live in Brooklyn! I live in a kick-ass dorm at an art college and have a single with a full-size Murphy bed. Pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/ellefeldman/BoinkableSpaces .
A little bit of wysteria in a wine bottle, a hidden jack for my Lelo Nea to plug into right on the headboard, a light dimmer for setting the mood or studying and of course an impressive reveal are just a couple reasons I’m lobbying for one in the guest room (aka my old room) at my folks’ house north of Los Angeles.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:16 pm@AL OOF Holy crap your poor sheets!
April 20th, 2008 at 3:19 pm@Elle: Holy crap a Murphy bed!!!!!!!!!! I think you win the porn just for that!
April 20th, 2008 at 3:36 pm@ Aloof: Yeah, I had a waterbed…it’s not very sexy and I much prefer a normal bed.
I, fortunately, have a nice full size bed which is just the right size for me and a friend in my little studio apartment. I’m a small person, I don’t need a lot of room, but after years of extra long twins in the dorms, I needed something with some ROOM. Those things are a sleepover/sex nightmare.
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