I ... um ... er ... right.
Anyway, how loud is too loud?
Now, forty-seven decibels doesn't seem that loud, but if you're keeping your neighbors awake? I mean, come on ... that's what, 47 dB in the street?
I'm torn here, because I'm not convinced scaring the hell out of passers-by with your orgasms is necessarily a human right. Still, though, the idea that a woman is about to stand trial for being too noisy in coitus strikes me just so. I mean, okay, okay. I get it. She sounds like a beached whale ... being carpet bombed. But—I don't know—aren't there more important things going on?
To the other, I'm not sure what the neighbors should have done. Maybe called in a possible assault or whatever whenever they heard this unfortunate chorus of lust. I mean, if it sounds like murder, or people in considerable pain, I'm not comfortable telling people to simply ignore it. One of these days it will be a murder, and people won't notice because they just figure it's that poor woman across the street who is utterly, unquestionably incapable of having sex without sharing her experience with the town.
Flip a coin. But this is just ... it's futile. Absurd. Insane.
Ah, humanity!
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Notes:
BBC. "Noisy sex woman loses appeal bid". BBC News Online. November 10, 2009. News.BBC.co.uk. November 10, 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/8352729.stm
Anyway, how loud is too loud?
A woman who was banned from making loud noises during sex has lost an appeal against her conviction.
Caroline and Steve Cartwright's love-making was described as "murder" and "unnatural" at Newcastle Crown Court.
Neighbours, the local postman and a woman taking her child to school complained about the noise.
Mrs Cartwright, 48, from Washington on Wearside, lost the appeal against a conviction for breaching a noise abatement notice.
She argued she had a right to "respect for her private and family life" under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act ....
.... Next door neighbour Rachel O'Connor told the court she was frequently late for work because she overslept having been awake most of the night because of the noise.
She said: "The noise sounds like they are both in considerable pain. I cannot describe the noise. I have never ever heard anything like it."
The court heard Sunderland City Council recorded levels of up 47 decibels.
Mrs Cartwright was appealing against the abatement notice, which was imposed in November 2007, and a subsequent Asbo, banning the couple from "shouting, screaming or vocalisation at such a level as to be a statutory nuisance".
She has since been accused of three counts of breaching the Asbo, but has denied the charges and will stand trial at Newcastle Crown Court on 14 December.
(BBC)
Caroline and Steve Cartwright's love-making was described as "murder" and "unnatural" at Newcastle Crown Court.
Neighbours, the local postman and a woman taking her child to school complained about the noise.
Mrs Cartwright, 48, from Washington on Wearside, lost the appeal against a conviction for breaching a noise abatement notice.
She argued she had a right to "respect for her private and family life" under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act ....
.... Next door neighbour Rachel O'Connor told the court she was frequently late for work because she overslept having been awake most of the night because of the noise.
She said: "The noise sounds like they are both in considerable pain. I cannot describe the noise. I have never ever heard anything like it."
The court heard Sunderland City Council recorded levels of up 47 decibels.
Mrs Cartwright was appealing against the abatement notice, which was imposed in November 2007, and a subsequent Asbo, banning the couple from "shouting, screaming or vocalisation at such a level as to be a statutory nuisance".
She has since been accused of three counts of breaching the Asbo, but has denied the charges and will stand trial at Newcastle Crown Court on 14 December.
(BBC)
Now, forty-seven decibels doesn't seem that loud, but if you're keeping your neighbors awake? I mean, come on ... that's what, 47 dB in the street?
I'm torn here, because I'm not convinced scaring the hell out of passers-by with your orgasms is necessarily a human right. Still, though, the idea that a woman is about to stand trial for being too noisy in coitus strikes me just so. I mean, okay, okay. I get it. She sounds like a beached whale ... being carpet bombed. But—I don't know—aren't there more important things going on?
To the other, I'm not sure what the neighbors should have done. Maybe called in a possible assault or whatever whenever they heard this unfortunate chorus of lust. I mean, if it sounds like murder, or people in considerable pain, I'm not comfortable telling people to simply ignore it. One of these days it will be a murder, and people won't notice because they just figure it's that poor woman across the street who is utterly, unquestionably incapable of having sex without sharing her experience with the town.
Flip a coin. But this is just ... it's futile. Absurd. Insane.
Ah, humanity!
____________________
Notes:
BBC. "Noisy sex woman loses appeal bid". BBC News Online. November 10, 2009. News.BBC.co.uk. November 10, 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/8352729.stm