Talk:One-night stand
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[edit] stage
The term comes from live-stage touring practices such as the American vaudeville circuit where many acts were booked for a single performance; the song "We Open in Venice" from Kiss Me, Kate (not the TV show) suggests longer engagements, but catches the feel of such circuits. IMO both topics can be covered well in a single article.
--Jerzy•t 04:15, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
- I've now added the theatrical usage to wikt:one-night stand; as i note at wikt:talk:one-night stand, there are something like 20K Google hits supporting this. There are enough hits for
- circuit Vaudeville
- that we probably could make good use of an article on vaudeville circuit, which could then probably accomodate a ToP Dab on One-night stand by providing it a target, in the form of an appropriate section of vaudeville circuit.
--Jerzy•t 21:49, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Actually, I've always been under the impression that the origin was a slang term for the type of very small, low (or NO) frills rented ROOMS where Vaudeville performers frequently spent the night between shows or between trains, i.e. a cheap room with only a bed and ONE NIGHT-STAND (a night-stand being a small table next to the bed). From this connotation (a "one night-stand" being a cheap room) it became corrupted into referring to the kind of sexual liason which can take place in said cheap room (i.e., a random or casual one-time sexual encounter). This may also be an example of synecdoche. Any opinions? (PS- I've never made an addition to wikipedia before so I hope I've done this correctly 000nemo000 06:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Eastern
I am rather sure the social stigma also applies in Eastern society. Manderiko 03:42, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
- I am rather sure the social stigma applies least to Western society, and more to islamic, mongolic etc. society. Salaskan 17:35, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Drink
I think that maybe someone should discuss the prevelence of Alcohol fuelled one night stands. The article doesn't even mention it, whereas I'd guess that the majority of one night stands, at least in the UK, are alcohol related...—Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.36.199 (talk • contribs) 17:26, 21 April 2007
[edit] Anonymous Sex Redirect
Anonymous sex redirects here. Links in the "see-also" of this page and on the casual sex page seem to suggest that there once was a separate page, but I see no discussion of it here. I think that anonymous sex is not the same as a one-night stand: anonymous sex is necessarily with a stranger, and is necessarily a one-night stand, but one-night stands might not necessarily be with a stranger and thus might not be anonymous sex. Am I making any sense? Cazort 02:22, 31 July 2007 (UTC) I just found an archived conversation that showed that this article was nominated for deletion and that the voting was overwhelmingly "keep". What happened? It looks like one user heavy-handedly changed the page to a redirect. I am restoring it, deleting the redirect. However, the page Anonymous sex is poor quality and needs citations and cleanup...so check it out and please work on it. Cazort 02:27, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Is sex implied?
Does a one night stand imply that sex has occurred between the two parties? Or would heavy petting suffice to call it a one night stand?--Secretss (talk) 09:23, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] "Worldwide view" tag
The article seems well presented, without POVs or original research, yet it has been tagged with "The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject." Moreover, there is no substantiation of this tagging here in the Talk Page. I suggest that the tag should be removed. -The Gnome (talk) 09:14, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Risks
I find it amusing how the Risks try to hide by using a small section heading. Maybe its because I cannot find anything on "preticyrine". I really hope this is due to a mistake, inventing a disease to scare people is under no circumstances acceptable. Also "it is mainly recommended to refrain from having sex with unknown partners" by whom? I suggest any form of veiled moralisation should be removed. --88.72.234.207 (talk) 15:13, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
