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Is nine minutes too little time for a quickie? Because that's the longest gap between stations on the entire Tube network.
The journey from Chalfont & Latimer to Chesham on the Metropolitan line is 3.98 miles, but if you fancied trying it out, you'd have to get there first — and it's in Zone 9. Still, there are plenty of other options in the centre of town: the top deck of a bus, Overground trains, the back seats of cabs. I took to the Piccadilly line to ask Londoners whether they like to do it on the move and flout the law — did I mention that sex on public transport is actually illegal, punishable with a mood-killing £1,000 fine?
Yes
Dominic, 27, statistician
It wasn't full-on sex but I did receive an act of fellatio once. It was on a train from London to Gravesend. I didn't plan it. I was just drunk with my girlfriend.
No
Maria, 30, sales manager
I wish I had but unfortunately I've never even got close. I'd definitely consider it on a plane, but probably not on the Tube. You just don't know who is going to get on.
Yes
John, 31, consultant
It was rather a drunken fumble around after an evening at a night club. I'll divulge no more than that it was on a train going back up towards Manchester from London.
No
Natalie, 19, student
People would see and I'm a girl who wouldn't want them to! I'd never do it.
Yes
Jodie, 22, IT administrator
I was with my other half on our way back home on the N25 bus — when it was still a double-decker and not a bendy bus. There were a few people on there, so the risk factor was fairly high.
No
Andy, 19, youth worker
Definitely not. I have no idea who might do that. It's just plain weird.
Yes
Ally, 21, student
Just once — on a train from Dumfries to Glasgow. A friend and I were coming back from a concert with a couple of girls we'd met there. It was the last train and the back carriages were pretty empty.
No
Danielle, 21, student
I probably wouldn't go in for that. It would depend on how quiet it was but public transport is usually too busy in London.
Yes
Kate, 27, teacher
My ex-boyfriend and I were getting a late train from Birmingham to London and were bored. We got into trouble with the conductor, who came and let us know there was CCTV on the train.
No
Matt, 26, musician
But I used to have a friend who would masturbate six or seven times a day and to fit it all in he'd have to do it at least once or twice on the bus to school and the way back.
Reader views (9)
Yes! I once challenged my then girlfriend to change her Bra from the one she was wearing to another she happened to have in her bag, during a cab-trip after dinner out in Maida Vale, (the rule was she had to remove her top, not just change under her top) She got her existing bra off, I copped a good face-full of her frontage and she got the new one on, we were never sure if the cabbie knew what she was up to, but I remember the thrill being enought so we just made in throught he door of my flat before we had a rip rawing good time! - A bit of excitement can really get the blood flowing!!!
- Harbour Reach, london UK, 08/08/2009 08:53
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Never on a bus, bu I learnt how to 'Mend a puncture' behind the cycle sheds at school with one or two Girls from the 5th and 6th Form at school many, many moons ago. Now I know how to 'fix' my cycle....!!
- Uncle Vanya, East Anglia Area UK, 05/08/2009 16:15
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I did engage in some mild frottage with my fella on the Central Line once.
- Dean P, Mile End, London, 05/08/2009 14:12
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I actually like the bendy buses, Tom; ok the women might look like cattle, but I only want to go shopping not dating.
Stan; the trip from Cockfosters to Southgate is very short; I hope your staying power has increased a lot since 1968.
Escobar; It is clear to me that you have never had a two-ton lady sitting on your lap; if you had; you would be like me, and want your own seat; without all the hassle and enormous bloomers.
Let me take this opportunity to thank Ken Livingstone for my free bus pass; ‘’thank you Ken’’ my wife and I need it to go shopping and watch the kids trying to make love; one day they will know how…….Mick.
- Mickinlondon, london., 05/08/2009 13:31
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Mickinlondon, if you are doing it right you can have both.
- Escobar-Alop-Lop, Camden County, 05/08/2009 10:39
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yes,, I had a day of debauchery on the Piccadilly Line tube and a bus from Cockfosters to Southgate,, but that was in 1968,,,
- Stan Shaw, DeLand Florida USA, 05/08/2009 04:47
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"I would sooner have a seat on public transport; than sex."
Don't take the new non-bendy 507 then. You're more likely to get sex than a seat on Boris's Cattle Truck.
- Tom, London, UK, 04/08/2009 19:01
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Of course, darling! On the down escalator at the Angel, at rush hour.
- Dectora, London UK, 04/08/2009 18:05
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I would sooner have a seat on public transport; than sex.
- Mickinlondon, london., 04/08/2009 12:36
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