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As a fitting follow-up to our just-posted two-part ode to National Skyscraper Day …
… we pay tribute to the ultimate use of tall building—namely, having sex on its roof !
Coincidentally, one of Sleuth’s all-time favorite pop songs was released this week in 1962: the gorgeous ballad “ Up on the Roof ”—sung by the Drifters and composed by his musical idol Carole King.
In the words of American Songwriter.com: “Up on the Roof, a big hit for the Drifters in 1962, remains one of the most enduring songs of the period, if only for its lushness of melody and lyrical sophistication. It is a near perfect 45 rpm record.”
“ ‘At night the stars put on a show for free,’ ” lead singer Rudy Lewis intones, “and darling you can share it all with me.’ The lyrics come on like a sexy invitation: ‘There’s room enough for two, up on the roof.’”
“Still,” American Songwriter concludes, “the song’s realism extends only so far: Rudy Lewis, whose lustrous voice graced not just Up on the Roof, but also On Broadway and Some Kind of Wonderful, was found dead in his hotel room (reportedly with a needle in his arm)—the night before he was scheduled to record what would become another big hit, Under the Boardwalk.” Which memorably begins: “Oh when the sun beats down and burns the tar up on the roof “…
Which brings us back to the subject at hand – secret sex Up on the Roof.
Unlike the chaste 1966-67 sitcom Love on a Rooftop—which introduced Burt Reynolds’ ex-wife Judy Carne to the world, but never went beyond a shared smooch with ‘lover’ Peter Duel—who shot himself to death on New Year’s Eve 4 years after the series was canceled.
Ironically, love on a rooftop is an act now on many a bucket list …
… as consummated by this comely couple against a colonnade:
Or these brash Brazilians spied by a helicopter just this January as “the brunette babe climbed on top of her partner for some mutual oral sex in the 69 position” on the roof of their luxury high rise … before carnally coupling in the pool.
"My boyfriend and I were up on the roof of a fancy hotel for a party,” wrote in 30-year-old socialite Sarah when Men’s Fitness magazine “asked women to share their most insane setting for off-the-wall sex ever.”
“We realized that a portion of the rooftop was blocked off by a row of potted plants. We moved them enough to sneak on through, then we had wild sex while 50 people were partying on the other side of the bushes!”
“Who knows if they heard or saw us?” Sarah smiles. “We were way too distracted to care!”
That’s the same way blogger Aleisha Fetters of Women’s Health magazine—the distaff version of Men’sFitness—felt when she tried it while researching an article: “What’s better than amazing sex?” the firm feminist found after experiencing it. “Amazing sex on a roof (with an amazing view of the New York city skyline). Oh yeah, that’s how I roll.”
“But mind the edge,” Aleisha advises. “Falling off a roof sucks {two couples have died recently falling off nude while having sex}, so stick with easily maneuverable sex positions like stand-and-deliver and doggy style.”
Which is what two lusty lovers did in the most infamous instance of public rooftop sex ever—which took place in Los Angeles on March 26, 2011: “An entire photo album of two students having sex on the roof of 12-story Waite Phillips Hall at the University of Southern California (USC) has gone viral,” reported the HuffingtonPost. Added another article: “The building is the home of the university's School of Education [make that Sex Education] and is the second tallest building on campus."
“The amorous activity has received over 100,000 views and prompted the suspension of the man in the photos from his Kappa Sigma fraternity,” HuffPo elaborated. “The school newspaper reports that there will be a meeting of the minds of USC to discuss a ‘course of action’ in response to the photos.”
The two students’ course of action began with a bottomless climb to the roof over 120 feet above the ground:
Then, the girl—“later determined to be from UCLA” {oh, the horror!}—got things Bruin {sorry} by goingdown from a great height to raise him up!
It must’ve worked … because she was soon “bent over and taking it from behind.”
“Their rendezvous took place in broad daylight,” observed BrokenCountry.com, “and according to reports, as a ‘philanthropy event’ attended by many other students took place in the quad below. As Sleuth as learned, that charity event was for Anchor Splash, which benefits sight loss and the visually impaired {you can’t make this stuff up!}.
“Instead of enjoying each other’s company in the center of the roof, where they arguably may not have been seen,” Broken Country continues, “the couple appear to have chosen to stay near the edge, ensuring they were in plain view. Reports described their liaison as being of ‘prolonged duration.’”
Sleuth hung in there for the duration … so that he could bring you this sequence of “the variety of sexual positions on top of the school’s tall building” the horny duo engaged in:
“Lovers’ tiff?” queried one onlooker. “The man appears to turn and walk away fromher."
And even though his erect appendage was blacked out in the photos, the president of the student’s fraternity made clear: “The member in question has been suspended for conduct unbecoming of a Kappa Sigma and a gentleman.”
At least—considering this wasUSC—he likely used Trojans.
And at least his tall tryst wasn’t illegal … which is more than can be said of the copycat coital couple who were caught “having sex on the roof of a federal courthouse in Pennsylvania” on July 9, 2015.
Turns out the fornicating fella was a U.S. Marshal—tasked with protecting the Ronald Reagan Federal courthouse building in Harrisburg, Pa., but instead seeming to ‘tear down that wall’ while forcefully taking a brunette from the rear.
Like at USC, the roof romance took place atop a 12-story building, though the head of the U.S. Marshals, Martin J. Pane took pains to say “there hadn’t been a security breach. The Marshals Service is confident the integrity of the courthouse is intact.” Which is more than one can say about his honey’s hymen.
Since, according to the resident of a nearby apartment building who alerted authorities, the “same couple regularly has sex on the roof, and frequently participate in passionate acts on the rooftop during work hours.”
So, apparently, do ‘always at it’ Ice-T and Coco … who like to spice up their lovemaking by taking it “to new heights.”
“Coco just wants to be the best at it,” the rapper reveals. “She’s like, ‘OK, well these are some of the things he digs, this is how he likes it, and it’s not a problem. I can accommodate.”
Nor does Vertigo seem to present a problem for these lovely l•asses who END this Skyscraper see•quel.
