Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 00:04:22 -0400

From: "William H. Smith" wh5mith[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ATL.MINDSPRING.COM

Subject: Golden Oldies



When I told my wife that one of my students is using e-mail for a project on

terms for the sex act, she asked me to search for terms that were in use in

the fifties and have gone out of style. For example, "do it", "do her",

could one "do him"? She was shocked to hear her mother say that a plant had

"shot its wad", in ignorance of the sexual connotations (although the source

of the metaphor is musketry). If you can remember that far back, let us

know what you remember of terms for copulation (with restrictions on who

could do what to whom) and genitalia.

Bill Smith

Piedmont College