condo cowboy

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:38:34PM -0400, Laurence Horn wrote:
> 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...

I seem to remember someone presenting a paper on this
very subject at the 1995 DSNA conference.... Wish I
could remember what he said though.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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