Roni,

I didnt read your journal. It was boring. You should talk about doing "it".

hmmmm.....well, considering I have no..um, experience...hello, virgin!....I thought I'd humor you people about saying "doing it".

This was an article I found:

When Cole Porter noted that birds, bees, and "even educated fleas do it," the "it" in question � at least according to the title of the song � was "fall in love." But that's not what people generally mean by "do it," you know? Nudge nudge. Wink wink.

What is it about sex that makes us start babbling euphemisms, anyway? Why is such an adult activity discussed in such adolescent terms? We've been hiding behind them at least since the time of Chaucer, who coined the use of the term "hot" to mean horny... er, I mean, aroused.

One of my favorite pieces of sexual slang is "canoodling," a term that originated in the US and got its first exposure before the Civil War. Technically, canoodling refers to fondling and foreplay, not to The Act itself. But it's a curiosity, isn't it? I mean, doesn't "canoodle" sound a lot dirtier than plain old "foreplay?"

Though it's something we associate more with Austin Powers than with Mr. Darcy or David Copperfield, the English favorite "shagging" dates, believe it or not, to 1788. The Brits may also win the competition for most peculiar sexual euphemism: Those old colonialists have been known to refer to having sex as "discussing Uganda."

People started getting nooky (or if you prefer, nookie) in 1928. The term possibly evolved from neuken, a Dutch word that itself is what the dictionaries like to call a "vulgar" term for having sex. But you know how uninhibited they are about these things in the Netherlands.

"Boffing" is another US product and, believe it or not, its use began not in 1967, but in 1937. The somewhat similar-sounding "boinking" is a Baby Boomer original, though, with coinage alternately attributed to the TV shows "Soap," "Moonlighting," and "Cheers."

"Rock 'n roll" didn't initially refer to a form of music that shook up the repressed 1950s, but was a reference to... well, you know... which certainly shook up the repressed 1950s. And dance-related words often provide a source for coy sexual expressions, such as "doing the horizontal mambo."

Oddly enough, the term that today counts as perhaps our most high-class sexual euphemism, "making love," started out as an expression of romance, not of sex. Some hapless young swain would open his heart to a fair young maid in a torrent of emotion � and they talked that way back then, too � only to have her reply, with a look of wide-eyed innocence, "Sir, are you making love to me?" We may still call it by a lot of funny names, but at least these days we recognize lovemaking when we're in the midst of it!

So why, if we're so enlightened in the 21st century, do we still use these giggly phrases? Maybe it's not so much that we're repressed as that we like to think everyone else is... that we're indulging in thoughts that would scandalize the others. Maybe the way we talk about getting our jollies is part of how we get our jollies.

If you know what I mean.

haha..look...it was about "doing it"