We’ve heard the jokes about the Mile High Club, and it’s probable that some people reading this have aspirations to join it.
But having sex in a toilet cubicle* on a commercial aircraft is no laughing matter, or anything to be proud of. It’s a matter of hygiene, people.
Airplane toilets are pretty disgusting at the best of times, even though cabin crew do their best to splash around some deodorant and cleaning products mid-flight.
But on a long-haul flight, they start to show evidence of over-use. Do we really want to add to the mix of bodily excretions already there?
I can’t say this any plainer: I, for one, do not wish to be the next one to use a tiny room in which two people have just had sex.
And it doesn’t help when news reports make light of the matter. As I write, the latest story is about an off-duty flight attendant who had sex with a porn actor in the toilet cubicle on a Delta flight.
In this instance, as part of an apparently growing trend, the encounter was filmed and it appeared on social media. Which just adds to the tawdriness of the whole business.
I don’t feel sorry for the people involved. The flight attendant may have been off-duty, but he should still have shown some professionalism and respect for his employer and workplace.
If anybody wants to organise a hook-up on a plane, that’s fine by me. Take the other person’s details and meet later in a hotel. At least they thoroughly clean the sheets, and the rest of the room, between each visitor.
*Yes, I do know that not all Mile High Club members achieved their status in the toilet. Is having sex in their seat near other passengers, or against the bulkhead in the galley any more hygienic, romantic or appropriate?
Well I hope you don’t think too much about what happens in hotel beds. Recall the murder in the Valley hotel after which something like 70 different semen traces were found on the bedspread.