Talk:Making out

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[edit] Synonyms removed

  1. "Scoring"
  2. "Hooking up"

Both of these generally refer to getting laid, not making out.

[edit] Necking

Perhaps some one more educated then I can anwser this, but isn't necking often considered to be an act of trust, as well? The neck being a very vundrible region and all. --71.124.154.120 14:26, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

  What??

[edit] Gender Neutral

I think some of this article is a little assumptive toward gender. Perhaps it could be made a bit more neutral, unless the slang is applied ONLY to one sex? For example:

""Swapping spit," since a kisser can get his saliva in his/her partner's mouth. Again, this can be used derogatorily."

This assumes that at least one partner is male. You can just say "since saliva may be left in a partner's mouth" and avoid the issue. Or you can make first pronoun a his/her construction. Either way would do well, I think. The part about baseball euphemisms has the same problem, only it's assuming at least one partner is female. Just a suggestion to anyone who works on this page.

[edit] deleted synonym

I've deleted "googling her mouth hole" from the synonym list, but I'd like to memorialize it as the best wikipedia vandalisation I've yet encountered.

  • A worthy attrocity, indeed. :D --24.15.165.14 04:46, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citation Needed?

How is ciatation needed for stuff that normally takes place at parties? Jesus Christ do they need an article about it or something?

[edit] Picture

What Happened to the cool picture of the two kids making out. put another one in. 01:39, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Looks like it was deleted on WP due to already existing in the wikimedia commons, and then deleted from the commons a few days ago due for being incorrectly tagged as public domain. (Wow, I can't believe I just spent the last ten minutes researching this.) Electrolite 01:41, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Does anyone know when the term first came into use. I have done a little research but have been unable to determine the history of the term or when it came into popular use.

As far as I know, the term's meaning has shifted over the last five years or so (at least when used by people in late adolescence) to encompass more activites. I can't find any cites for this, though. Tlogmer (Talk / Contributions) 13:04, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

-Can we lose the dykes?--70.29.71.45 03:47, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia is not a dictionary.

Hmm... I thought that Wikipedia was not a dictionary. Jchillerup 20:23, 10 May 2006 (UTC)


It's not a thesaurus, either. My problem is that some of the synonyms are not widely, if at all, used. This isn't urbandictionary.com . This is why citing is important.--Jickyincognito 23:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trapping Off

The article suggests 'Trapping Off' is used in Northern England. I've never heard it (and I'm from the North). Can somebody confirm it's actually used?

Same here for the German "Bratwürsten": I'm from Franconia in Bavaria, which i must say is the main state for "Bratwürste" but I have never heard of the the term "Bratwürsten" for making out...

Whilst we are on the topic, I have never heard "pulling" being used to describe making out in the UK either. I have always understood it to mean intercourse. 129.67.43.240 22:53, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

--->> 'pulling' on a night out when i was much younger and going to under 18s discos did indeed mean solely kissing and/or associated 
       groping - Masterplan79th

[edit] Necking

This sections is states definitively that "necking" is kissing, licking, etc. specifically to the neck. That's wrong, from what i've seen "necking" is a (rather disused) catch-all term.

  • necking: Informal. the act of embracing, kissing, and caressing amorously; petting.[1]
  • Groucho Marx "Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."[2]

Does it make sense? No. But when George Bailey tells his mother he's going to "find a girl and do a little passionate necking," it's neither explicitly sexual nor explicitly about necks.

Perhaps it's modern connotations are different?

Bantosh 15:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Read a book in 1950 that called anything not involving the "caressing of breasts and genitals" necking. Necking doesn't seem like it's an activity exclusively involving the neck.

Wow that was an awkward sentence. 152.23.196.162 04:02, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I am removing the section on necking as it is factually inaccurate and uncited. I am also removing the list of synonyms per WP:NOT. I think if all the unnecessary information is removed, this article will be no more than a {{stub}} and I may nominate it for deletion. The only reason I haven't done so already is that it is apparently referenced in dozens, perhaps hundreds, of other wikiarticles. --Nonstopdrivel 23:36, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Make Out Train

I live in Vancouver, and I heard media reports that there was a group in Vancouver that was in the business of promoting making out. This group planned to ride buses and trains and make out the entire ride, and to hopefully get media attention to thier cause. Does anyone else know about this ?? Should it be added to the article ??

[edit] Making out picture

Some may and seem to be having problems with the picture and I understand why: It is of lesbians. I personally do not care but I would not change it back if it were changed to male/female.--WhereAmI 06:55, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Sounds fine to me as long as it isn't removed altogether and not replaced with another picture. --The_stuart 15:59, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POV

I removed this sentence because I thought that it seemed more like POV thinking than fact. --Austinsimcox 13:36, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Protected page

I have semi-protected the page as it (not surprisingly) seems to be a frequent target for vandals. At the very least people will have to create an account to slag this article for now. --Nonstopdrivel 14:54, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Disregard. As I am not yet an admin, I do not have these privileges. --Nonstopdrivel 23:29, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Drastic action needed

After eliminating unencyclopedic content and rework for content and style, this article barely qualifies as a {{stub}}. If significant action is not taken to cite claims and flesh out content, I will nominate this article for merger with French kiss. There's nothing substantive in this article that isn't (or couldn't be) covered there. Again, as I stated previously, the only reason I haven't nominated this article for deletion or merger is that it is apparently cited by numerous other articles.

I welcome discussion on this point. --Nonstopdrivel 23:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

It's a slang phrase for French kissing. A merger seems quite appropriate.
Peter Isotalo 09:11, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
I'd say it's not really appropriate to have this in the French Kiss article. French kissing is a pretty specific act, making out is more general. If anything, the French kissing article should be merged in as part of this since it is often part of 'making out', but I don't have a problem with them remaining separate. --jjron 09:35, 26 October 2007 (UTC)