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From: jay@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: "making love"
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Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 16:15:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 29 16:15:11 1985
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I sent the following out under net.nlang and got only two replies.  Figuring
maybe this group was more knowledgable on the subject, I am trying once
again:

>I'm curious about the expression "making love" which up until (as far as I
>can tell) about the early fifties had a meaning something akin to
>"pitching woo".  Its current sordid overtones always make people who see
>older films titter when they hear some innocuous male or female
>lead say something like "make love to me darling" in an otherwise above
>board scene of romantic dialogue.  Does anybody know how this innocent
>phrase got "corrupted" into its current meaning?
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Jay Elvove       ..!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umd5!jay