BAREBACK, a most useful word

Wed Jan 25 01:30:12 UTC 2006

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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of RonButters at AOL.COM
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 3:42 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: BAREBACK, a most useful word
>
>
> perhaps ADS should consider BAREBACK as most useful new word of 2006, now
> that it has crossed over into the straight world.
>

The earliest citations of "bareback" in reference to sex that I can find
(1990) on Usenet are in a heterosexual context. This hardly conclusive and
gay usage may indeed be older, but the term has been in use in heterosexual
circles for a long time.

--Dave Wilton
  dave at wilton.net
  http://www.wilton.net

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