Fetishes

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

"Necking" is what they used to call "making out" in my parents' generation -- back when "making out" was slang for fucking.

"Making out" has never been slang for fucking. It's slang for heavy kissing and/or petting. "Necking" is an outdated term from MY parent's generation meaning basically the same thing. I think that "necking" dates at least back to the 20's, while "Making out" only dates to the 50's.

Seriously? It may have had a different evolution geographically. Around here, that's the way it was used.

[Dimocritus]

Ok, I need more info on this kind of stuff. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=27550856

Someone in this thread should be able to point me in the right direction, right?

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I don't really have one, unless you count asking my parents. Do you have one?

I can dig up the annotated dictionary of slang my dad was working on in the nineties (if the documents still exist). Maybe that'll have proper citations.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't really have one, unless you count asking my parents. Do you have one?

I can dig up the annotated dictionary of slang my dad was working on in the nineties (if the documents still exist). Maybe that'll have proper citations.

Closest thing I have to it aside from personal experience is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_out

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I do get the impression that the meanings of slang terms evolve at different rates in different places. There aren't many formal studies of euphamisms around, though, so it's hard to tell.

I'm pretty sure I have at least three or four dictionaries of slang and euphamism (the old paper kind) lying around somewhere, so if it's of interest I can look up what the 'experts' have to say about it. At least one of them was last published in the seventies, though.

[Elder Iptuous]

Call up the folks at "A Way with Words" on NPR...
those fuckers know everything about all aspects of language ...evar....
seriously.
plus, it's just a fucking cool show.

[East Coast Hustle]

Ok, I need more info on this kind of stuff. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=27550856

Someone in this thread should be able to point me in the right direction, right?

here's some info: those girls all look fucking retarded. If you wanna find a girl who will dress like that for you, I'd try the nearest adult care home.

[Dimocritus]

Ok, I need more info on this kind of stuff. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=27550856

Someone in this thread should be able to point me in the right direction, right?

here's some info: those girls all look fucking retarded. If you wanna find a girl who will dress like that for you, I'd try the nearest adult care home.

Don't judge me.

[East Coast Hustle]

I was just offering my sincere and helpful advice.

[Dimocritus]

I was just offering my sincere and helpful advice.

Thanks, but no thanks. Those girls are right up my ally.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

theres girls under all that STUFF?

[Freeky]

I thought it looked neat, in a circus freak kind of way.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

I actually have a dictionary of slang.  One moment...

[BADGE OF HONOR]

neck v. 1. Orig. Stu. to engage in amorous embracing and kissing; pet.--also used trans. Now colloq. Hence necker, necking, n. [Earlier in dial. BrE as 'to cour'; see EDD.]
*1825 in OEDS: Let's see nae mair o' Peter Wallett's neckin' an' touslin' here. 1922 DN V 148: Necking, dancing with cheeks together. 1923 H.L. Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 3) 373: Necker, one given to cheek-to-cheek dancing. (...) 1925 Lit. Digest (Mar. 14) 65: "Petting" now exists only in the college novels, the more forceful, if more obscure, "necking" having taken its place to describe amorous adventures.

etc etc it's a very long entry

Edit but the last entry is from 1996, from a Simpsons comic 

[Dysnomia]

I think I'm with ECH, Dimo.