NWR - PDA?

It really depends on what it is. I'm a big fan of love and if people express that with kissing, hugs, or holding hands then I am all for it. I kiss my FH all the time in public.

However, if people are groping and making out on a park bench that seems a bit excessive.

I've seen ALL types of PDA thanks to NYC MTA!!! I've even witnessed self PDA lol. It's horrible.

I'm ok with hand holding and cute little kisses (cheek, forehead). My FH kisses me goodbye every morning when he gets off the train at his stop and I feel like everyone is watching us. It's just odd that people would want to slobber each other down with millions of eyes on them.

Hand holding, hugs, peck kisses are all okay (and cute), but if you're straddling your partner and sticking your tongue down their throat while my niece tries to play at the park, I'm probably annoyed.

Are you asking about PDA between yourself and your SO? or seeing it between other people? I feel that people are sometimes more comfortable doing something themselves than seeing other people do it in public, or vice versa.

I don't have any issue with "tame" PDA; as PP have said, if it looks like it should be taking place in private, please don't do it in public. Seeing people touching, hugging, or sharing a kiss doesn't faze me in the slightest, as long as it's obviously consensual.

DH was a bit uncomfortable about PDA when we first started dating (or "courting" as he once called it - he's so cute). He simply wasn't used to it and didn't want to engage in it in pubic. As time went on, we've both adjusted and we're both comfortable with it. We'll probably never share a sweeping, I-want-to-tear-your-clothes-off, passionate kiss in public, but that's fine; we can save that for when we're alone.

I think it depends on WHERE you are too. If you are in my office and you are practically getting it on in my office chairs then I am going to need you to leave so I can Lysol my entire office.

I always find it odd when one person sits on the others lap and there's fifty extra chairs in the room.

Exactly what Elphaba said

Hahaha... my partner and I are the worst about PDA, tame and otherwise. He finds it weird and obnoxious that everybody in the US are such prudes when it comes to showing love (and I tend to agree with him). Like, why is it okay for children to watch/ play violent movies and video games and not for them to see healthy expressions of love between two people?

We were at a coffee shop once, sitting in a dark corner on a couch and gently kissing each other and giggling and whispering in each others ears (nothing excessive, even by US standards), and minding our own business while celebrating our anniversary, but when we left some nasty woman started clapping as we walked out the door. If looks could kill, she would have been dead. Very dead. Burned alive dead.

Anyways, I say do what is comfortable for you, and if people don't like it, they don't have to watch and they can keep moving along.

I have never really cared about PDA for others. As long as there aren't kids around to see anything inappropriate, to each their own.

Personally, I will hold FH hand and let him out his arm around me. We might kiss but it's just on the cheek real quick. I have a personal space bubble that I don't like to have invaded. I am just now comfortable with the PDA FH and I do.

LOL @MSG the NYC Subway PDA...how I don't miss that at all

I don't really mind any PDA as long as you aren't exposing yourself lol or doing anything inappropriate in front of children. To each their own.

I love it! When a man holds your hand in public and lets the world know you are his. I'm not a fan of kissing in public tough.

Keep it tasteful and you should be okay. Just make it a point to remember that you are in public.

Funny, when we were walking back home last night there was a couple making out in the street while waiting for their uber. I thought he was going to eat her face they were so into each other. Definitely not a fan of that since it makes me think of drunk make outs.

Holding hands, pecks, other little signs of affection I'm all for though. I like what PP said about if you wouldn't do it in front of your parents, you shouldn't be doing it in public.

@catlady I think that's a nice distinction: sweet and playful versus hot and heavy, instead of defining specific acts as good or bad

I'm only comfortable (both with doing and seeing) hand holding, side hugs/an arm around the other person, and cheek kisses (I can handle seeing a couple have a quick kiss on the mouth, but that's as far as it needs to go). I'm not comfortable with seeing gooey eyed couples stare at each other and get all kissy and touchy. I've been around that, both inside and in public, and it makes me really uncomfortable. FH is generally on the same page, although he has no issue with hugging me in front of other people. He doesn't do quick hugs with me (they're full on embraces), and I'm not comfortable getting that "intimate" with others, so I've asked that we reserve that for when it's just us, and to only do side hugs in public.

Hand holding & little pecks on the lips & cheeks, sure. But blatant making out in public makes me uncomfortable, both to watch & to take part in. I once dated a guy years ago who would always try to stick his tongue down my throat when we were in public. Ugh!! We weren't together very long...

We hold hands in public, that's about it. I'm not a very affectionate person in general though, so is PDAing in public would be surprising to most people who know us lol

So I was at an airport last month and I couldn't take my eyes off a couple that were 2 steps away from basically having sex. I think that's going awwwwwwwwway too far.

I don't like it, we rarely even hold hands in public. I'm not an affectionate person and PDA is a huge no; it's no ones business but ours. Occasionally we do hold hands but that is because FH is the opposite, very affectionate.