My Parents Had Sex

Are you interested in the sex life of your parents?  I know I'm not.  My parents were very much in love and there were enough displays of affection around the house to make me fairly certain of that.  One of the enduring memories of my early childhood is my father coming through the door at the end of the day and my mother dropping whatever she was doing to greet him with a kiss.So why am I bringing up their sex life?  Well primarily because a lot of other people seem to feel free to do so.I am one of eleven children, evidence enough of the fact that...GASP!...my parents had sex, although I suppose I could wonder when since in my day it seemed they never got through a night without at least one of us kids ending up in their bed.Well, in an effort to be sure I didn't spend too much time thinking about that, a business associate of my father's announced to me one day that whenever my parents went to Atlantic City for a getaway there would be a baby not far behind.Can you say "ewwww"?  Why would he think I wanted to know that?Just recently I recommended a friend of mine for a job and the first day the client felt the need to tell her my parents must have had a lot of sex to have so many children.  Not the first time I've heard that assumption.Here are the facts for those of you who didn't do too well in biology or history class.  All we know for sure is that my parents had sex at least ten times in their marriage (there was one set of twins in the family).  Large families were not at all unusual in the 1940s and 50s when my parents were procreating, so if in fact they were acting like rabbits, they were not alone.  They just didn't hide the evidence.The fact is that sex is part of any healthy, loving marriage and if my parents had plenty of sex in their all too short marriage, good for them.  If you were not so lucky, keep your envy to yourself.  And as I often point out when the subject of other people's sex lives come up, I don't care what anyone does in the privacy of their bedroom.  Swing from the chandelier if you want, I don't want or need to know.  And if you don't want to bare all about YOUR sex life, please keep your assumptions about my parents to yourself.