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From: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: 'make love'
Message-ID: <361@ptsfc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 21:18:41 EST
Article-I.D.: ptsfc.361
Posted: Fri Mar 22 21:18:41 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 26-Mar-85 06:20:52 EST
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Reply-To: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams)
Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco
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Summary: 

>The phrase `make love', meaning `have sex' was in use as early as 1941.
>See, for example, Anais Nin's Delta of Venus, written in 1940 and '41
>(although published in the mid '70s.)

 I guess my grandmother (born 1876) never read Anais Nin: she used
 the phrase in its Victorian sense and constantly embarrassed my
 sister (and convulsed her audience) by asking her, in public
 places, if her fiance was coming over that evening to make love
 to her.
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 rod williams | pacific bell | san francisco
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