How to discuss sex and dating like a college student
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Dan Reimold, author of Sex and the University: Celebrity, Controversy, and a Student Journalism Revolution, has posted a sampling of this college generation's dating and sexual lingo.
To me, some of it is just repackaged stuff we used to say in the 1980s, but other terms show a difference in attitude.
What it tells Reimold:
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The vocabulary hints at a campus culture in which romance is dead, monogamy is dying, and, as one columnist puts it, "sex is sex is sex is sex."
Here are a few snippets. You can see the original list here.
Ex (v.): "It has become a phenomenon. 'Ex' used to just be a former lover. Recently, a combination of slang and relationship behavior has caused it to become a verb, 'to ex': to hook-up or, in some cases, get back together with an old boyfriend or girlfriend."
Gamer widow (n.): a female who is forgotten in a relationship in favor of video games.
Half-night stand (n.): a shortened version of the one-night stand; leaving a sexual partner's bedside before morning, typically before the partner wakes.