My sorority house had sleeping porches... our bedrooms were pretty small, and a lot of girls wanted to live in the house, so the porches were necessary! A bedroom for two girls was really only big enough for one bed, two desks, two dressers - so the roomies would decide who slept in the room and who was on the porch.

I liked the porch because it was always cold, dark, and quiet - perfect for sleeping!

Our chapter at UofA had a sleeping porch. The house only had (I do say had because the chapter closed May 05 and won't reopen until Fall 09) 17 rooms. 2 of the rooms housed 4 girls, the others housed 3. The president had her own room, with 1 roomate. So essentially only 55 girls could live in the house. The rooms had 1 bed (a day bed). Closets for each girl and a desk for each girl. That was it. The rooms were just that rooms. You slept on the sleeping porch. Although because of the sleeping porch sisters who didn't live in the house would claim a bed. So if they wanted to take a nap between classes or didn't want to go back to their dorm, whatever, they had a bed.

The sleeping porch wasn't actually that bad. Got a bit cold at night because it was on the 3rd floor. As for the snoring. I never heard anything and I'm the worlds lightest sleeper. I mean I usually need absolute silence to fall asleep. I really liked the sleeping porch. Because let's face it if you're tired, wanna go to bed, you could go to bed and not have to worry about sisters keeping you up because they need to get homework done. Plus with the porch being on the 3rd floor it was eerily quiet. The rooms (and showeres) were on the 2nd floor (still are) and everything else on the 1st. So people could be watching TV and you wouldn't hear it on the 3rd.

I'm not sure how many other houses down there have sleeping porches.


Now my opinion is based on my experiences. I never actually lived in the house. Stayed there plenty of times, didn't actually live there though.

I think it would be fun! I am trying to convince some of the girls on my hall to move 6 beds(which is 3 rooms worth) into one room, then having the other two rooms as a study room and a lounge.... I just think it would be fun!

are you guys awake?
 

A fraternity house or a sorority house is not a brothel, a whore
house, or a bar. People sleep, people study, people visit...all
without a vomitorium or sexual fanfare.
Is this so tough to understand? If you gotta have a house for sex
then rent one...not the fraternity house.
This might sound like preaching...it is.
And you dummies who think South Dakota or the hinterlands are
primitive ought to take a look at yourselves.
Yes, I would say the social graces and manners have been flushed in many cases. Will they return? Maybe, hope so.

Re: are you guys awake?
 

It must have been nice to have so much extra money when you were in college that you could afford to rent a sex house. Where did that come from?

Re: sleeping porches
 

How would that destroy morale? I'm just curious.

Also, I'm not sure how having people over is turning the house into a brothel or sex house. It seems like you're envisioning a situation much more extreme than anything anyone is talking about in this thread.

i would think the brothers would have much better morale if they were getting some?