condo cowboy

[Wilson Gray]

Any term related to sexual intercourse, whether straightforwardly or
euphemmisticaly, that appears in a Bible-Belt, family-oriented
newspaper (is there any other kind in that part of the country?) I
have to consider as having made it into the mainstream.

-Wilson

On 8/22/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 6:32 PM -0400 8/22/06, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >Has "date," an old slang term for "pay a prostitute for sexual
> >intercourse," i.e., she asks a potentential client, "Do you want to
> >date with me?", by way of "John and Mary are dating," i.e. involved in
> >a relationship that includes sexual intercourse, finally made the leap
> >into the maimstream language as a euphemism for "engage in sexual
> >intercourse with"?
> >
> >-Wilson
>
> Some couples (the members of which don't pay each other for the
> sexual experience) have been so using it for years (e.g. "Would you
> be interested in a date tonight?")  I don't know how many such
> invitations, or such couples, would be needed for the expression to
> enter the official ranks of full-fledged euphemisms...
>
> LH,
> who just saw "Little Miss Sunshine", in which Alan Arkin's character
> Grandpa, just thrown out of the retirement community in New Mexico
> for snorting heroin, fits the "condo cowboy"
> description (according to his own account), but does not use the term
> therefor.  (Nor does he use "date" or any other euphemism.)
>
>
>
> >
> >On 8/20/06, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> >>"Condo cowboy" appeared in a recent CBS Evening News piece on senior
> >>citizens with AIDS.
> >>
> >2005 _Arkansas Democrat Gazette_ 19 June 48 (Factiva) "Lifelong
> >>Health" Almost every week, articles appear that discuss the epidemic of
> >>sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) in retirement communities, where
> >>a single man can _date_ a different woman every night of the week. They
> >>are often referred to as "Condo Cowboys," who boast of different sexual
> >>partners on a weekly basis.
> >>
> >>
> >>--Ben Zimmer
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