Uptight about straight sex but ok with a gay man?

I figure it follows the old-fashioned Christian belief that a man and woman should not be living together unless they were married. They were never going to have anything gay on the show anyway, so that part wasn't a problem. You'd have to go back to whoever created the original show in the UK (Man About the House) for the real truth, because our version is just built on that one.

> So why would a man uptight about straight sex happening be cool with gay sex in his building?

I never got the sense that there was anything sexual going on in that apartment. Jack had his fun, but being a heterosexual forced to pose as a homosexual, he obviously had to have that fun somewhere else. As for Janet and whoever the other female was that year ... I'm not going to say they never had guys sleeping over, because it's been long enough since I watched this last that I might have forgotten something ... but I sure don't remember that ever happening.

So, if there really isn't any sex going on in that apartment ... wouldn't it be easy for Roper to get the impression there wasn't any sex going on in that apartment?

But there's something else too ...

(Indiscipline said) > I figure it follows the old-fashioned Christian belief that a man and woman should not be living together unless they were married.

Agreed. I think it's safe to assume Mr. Roper is about the same age as Norman Fell, which puts him in my parents' generation. Knowing them and some of my other older relatives, I think the idea isn't just that the man and woman are doing something wrong, but also that it's sacrilegious against the institution of marriage itself. And no, I don't come from a family of Bible thumpers; but then again, you don't have to be particularly religious to believe that theft, murder, etc are wrong either. Having moral beliefs isn't only for the religious.

The people of that generation weren't naive or stupid; they knew bloody well that people screwed before marriage, outside marriage, etc, and more than a few of them had done it themselves. But the difference between dating with sleepovers versus full cohabitation ... I dunno, kind of like the difference between someone who hates the USA and so quietly refuses to sing along with the National Anthem, versus someone who actually spits on the flag or "takes a knee" during the anthem. Not showing respect is one thing, showing actual disrespect quite another.

You are really over thinking a simple minded show

It is weird. Did he think a gay man wouldn't have sex in the apartment? I think it was just a dodgy device to set up the premise. It wouldn't work now.

I had a girlfriend whose parents knew and got along fine with gay men, but whose biggest worry was that their daughter might have sex with me. It took a lot of effort to outfox them. Anyway, the point is, people with such incongruous concerns do exist.