MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 4/26/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> At 10:27 AM -0400 4/26/07, James Harbeck wrote:
> >Yesterday, incidentally, my wife asked me, while we were in
> >conversation with her mother, aunt and uncle, what MILF meant. I had
> >a giggling fit.
> >
> That's...um...a Mature Individual who Likes Flowers, no?

There's an examination of the "MILF" phenomenon in this week's New
York Magazine:
http://nymag.com/news/features/2007/sexandlove/30915/

They actually did some research too, at least on Google Groups: "The
earliest online reference is a 1995 Usenet post about a Playboy
pictorial of hot moms."

Presumably referring to this post from Jan. 12, 1995:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.mag.playboy/msg/ae98e3c554d34114

Any antedatings?


--Ben Zimmer

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