a current thread talks of people 'sleeping' with someone

'sleeping' meaning having 'sex'.

I've often wondered why the media and many of us say 'sleeping' when we mean 'sex'. like Jane is sleeping with Joe. instead of reality, Jane is having sex with Joe.

is it habit left over from prudish times? the word 'sex' is thrown about and used all the time in the media and out, but not actually for the act of sex. 'that dress is sexy' 'sexy movie', etc.

but referring to the sex act it gets changed to the sleeping.

sometimes we are a strange country.

I find it amusing. I don't know where
that term came from, but it's used with
so many inflections...

is it that part for the hole?

My mind's picture is much to vivid. I prefer that folks just be snuggling, napping, sleeping..

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That is too funny! When I was very young I thought that "sleeping together" causing babies was due to picking up some sort of cootie type thing from the sheets. But that's incorrect, right?

Even "having sex" is a euphemism. The real word is "fucking."

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I don't know. It just doesn't have the right ring to it.

:shrug: Indeed, I rarely avoid the more coarse term "fuck." It seems that one of our more noxious cultural problems is "a failure to communicate" so I tend to avoid exacerbating it.

You can't. Only on Vulcan they do, and we ain't on Vulcan. In fact, despite your protestations, Vulcan does not exist.

Is that they only get laid once every 7 years, and understandably, with dry spells like that in between, it's the last thing you want to talk about!

Live long and prosper? Is that really "prospering"?

to avoid the true meaning of the correct words they fail to use. At most, they hint.

(as close to a direct quote without looking for the damn book):

"What, Ebenezer! You mean to tell me you've never turned your fid to the parting of some dock whore's hemp?"

A fid is an old nautical tool from the eighteenth century.

" a wooden or metal pin for parting strands of a rope."

to me it is sex, .... not making anything including love, though the sex may be with the one we love. and i never use sleepin with. sleeping is snoring, shouldnt be a whole lot of sex gooing on

i have never shared the makin love thing though. seems like people are into that term and like to use it, so i leave it alone

love is love, sex is sex.

that "Sleeping Together" and "Making Love" were not originally code for "SEX" but rather was more literal. Back in the 18th and 19th Century, "Sleeping Together" meant.... well, sleeping. together. not sex. It "evolved" into that meaning. Likewise, "Making Love" was when a man woo'd a woman (rarely, if ever, the other way around). The acts of bringing flowers; talking marriage, life, and kids; visiting were all "Making Love". Again, not sex. Again, evolved.

Language is never static. Meanings change all the time. (one example of an "evolving" term - Dumb. Most can agree that strictly speaking this means "Can't Talk". But ask any kid and they'll tell you it means "Stupid". Doesn't take much to make a leap and suppose that a person could be thought of as stupid if they can't talk.)

It's all about the Slang.

take advantage of the fact pore ole stupid Jebus can't figure out they mean god damnit.

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that in any relationship, there is more sleeping than sex.

as an endorsement, sleeping with the enemy, as in doing business with competition, wearing a rubber, feeling secure while getting screwed....yes, I get it. Double speak. Nobody says what they mean or means what they say. Funny world. Funny=peculiar.

ooops, did I just post that?

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the nuke plants seem to be humming along in the last 24

I'll never understand the english language...

nt

one party can wipe away everything, the other cannot. so exchanging does not describe the event.

and if a rubber is used nothing gets exchanged or mingled.

now kissing is an exchange and mingling.

I like it because, in most cases, I want hazy gauzy veil over the particular actors involved. I don't want any scarring mental imagery.

you can wake up and have sex! How cool is that...

Other silly metaphors for fucking:

"Banging" - Dyno-mite!
"Screwing" - Right or Left hand thread?
"De-flowering" - Weed killer?
Intercourse - Passionate conversation?
"Coupling" - Does one "de-couple" like trains?
"Coitus" - Is Coitus Politus?
"Going All the Way" - To Newark?
"Getting laid" - Does one also get "sitted" or "standed"?

etc, etc, etc.

When in truth, the animal is being executed.

Sex isn't something we're supposed to talk about. I know several people in my peer/age group that still have a hard time mentioning the word sex. I'm not even talking about them having a problem talking about their sex lives...they literally are uncomfortable saying the word sex in a public place. This has started to change a little, but for the most part we're still a sexually repressed country. I think a lot of people never really break out of that childhood programing that sex is bad and wrong.

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