Mattress Issues!

Brighty18

New member
Hi, everybody!

This may sound like a bizarre question, but we need some help in choosing a new mattress that fits our polyamorous lifestyle. Our old mattress is aging rabidly and none of us are too comfortable at night, so we need something new. But what? Are there mattress that are better for polyamory?

There are three of us (two men and myself) and none of us are exactly tiny. It's not like we're morbidly obese, but we're not small, either. A. is about 220 (mostly muscle), C. is about 180 (tall and lanky), and I am a bit overweight at 150. We all share a bed every night which means over 500 pounds of pressure on one poor, unsuspecting mattress. A. sleeps in the middle and gets quite warm at night. (He blames C. and I for giving off too much heat. LOL) And we roll a lot. Altogether. Like hot dogs on one of those convenience store roller heaters. Part of the reason we roll is because we all like to cuddle and spoon and find ourselves switching positions to gain access to one another. Also, my arms tend to fall asleep so I have to switch it around, causing a chain spooning reaction.

We generally have sex in couples, but sometimes it is all three of us, and it is usually... erm... vigorous. Because of this, we do not use a bed frame, though we are considering building a platform bed.

So, what we are looking for is something:

A) that can take a lot of weight
B) that has an even surface and possibly distribute the weight well.
C) that will not retain too much heat
D) that is good for sex (can take a pounding)
E) is medium firm

Does anyone else share a bed with multiple people on a regular basis? Do you have any mattress recommendations?

Thanks!
 
if you have a king size bed you that means you'll have to smaller box springs that are being supported by a bed frame with a middle section, the weight distribution should be fine on something like that. you could also even put box springs on the floor instead of on the frame which would help with the weight distribution.
 
There's only 18 pages on that topic on this thread alone. http://www.polyamory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2050.

Please Google research before acting like you're the first to discover this problem.

It's not a bizarre question. It's the second most popular after,."Am I the first woman to want to be with two guys? Is this even POSSIBLE?"
 
There is a search function here (and Advanced Search as well). It comes in very handy, because most general questions people post have been asked and answered before. I don't know why you would think this is a bizarre question at a polyamory site! :D

Anyway, below is the link to one of our Master Threads. This one is on the topic of beds and mattresses, etc. (if you go into your User Control Panel - the User CP link - and set your default to view 40 posts per page, it makes it much easier to read long threads). Some very useful stuff here:

Sleeping Arrangements and Beds: Merged Threads, General Discussion
 
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