Making out

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Making out is an American slang phrase and usually serves as a colloquial term or euphemism for the act of two people engaging in prolonged kissing (also known as "getting off", "snogging", "pulling", or "meeting" in the United Kingdom) or sometimes, as two people engage in sexual activity, it is said that they are making out. Making out is usually done to express affection to a boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse, or to express sexual attraction to a prospective sexual partner. Making out consists of French kissing. An episode of making out can also be referred to as a make-out session.

Contents 1 Techniques 2 Other phrases related to making out 3 Variation in age 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Techniques

After a period of prolonged kissing, two people sometimes engage in an alternate form of making out, known as necking. Necking, as the term implies, involves kissing and licking of the neck, often considered to be an erogenous zone, because of the relatively high sensitivity of the skin there. Necking is usually done one partner at a time, since a couple both kissing each others' necks is usually difficult or uncomfortable. Because one person is usually inactive during necking, that person can rest their head on the other's shoulder, if they wish to rest their neck. Giving or receiving a love-bite, often referred to as a "hickey" in North America, may be involved in the act of necking.

The couple may also continue to kiss various other body parts. Sexualized touching of other sorts, such as groping or heavy petting may also commonly occur during making out. Although making out does not only exist as foreplay, it is sometimes understood as an impetus to more sexual acts. This can also be referred to as "Pulling" or "Snogging".

[edit] Other phrases related to making out

• Baseball euphemism: Reaching "first base," "second base," "third base," and "home run" or "scoring" is a euphemism or an innuendo for referring to the successive stages of an intimate encounter.
  • First base is usually understood as making out, with second and third considered to be the touching of breasts (of a female partner) or sucking their breast(s) and fingering or a giving a blowjob, respectively. (Due to the growing popularity of pre-coital oral sex, "third base" has recently been occasionally used to describe this act, second base becoming fingering) In this case, "making out" is used to mean foreplay, with orgasm as the home run or "scoring." Unless orgasm is achieved while fingering and/or oral sex.
• "Frenching," as short for French kissing.
• "Lip-locking," as a couple engaged in making out looks to be locked at the lips.
• "Sucking face," as a couple engaged in making out looks as if they are sucking one another's faces. This can be used as a slightly derogatory term, usually to refer to a couple who are making out in full view of someone who would rather not witness it.
• "Tongue Fencing" is when two people touch toungues in such a way it feels like a fencing match
• "Pulling a Connery" Often used to describe the act of promiscuous kissing with foreign women.
• "Guschmoogetying the Gufloigan"- A term commonly used in North Finland.
• "Swapping spit," since a kisser can get his saliva in his/her partner's mouth. Again, this can be used derogatorily.
• "Blag (Blagging)" common in the UK
• "Lip wrestling," since French kissing causes lips to overlap.
• "Tonsil Hockey"
• "Tongue Wrestling," when the couple is enjoying it so much they will sometimes wrestle quite literally with their partner's tongue.
• "Pulling"; more common in the UK
• "Kopeling" used in most of Russia. It stems from the winner of an all night kissing competition in Moscow in 1990.
• "Getting Off"; also common slang in the UK (Note that in North America, "getting off" refers to having an orgasm.)
• Variations on the Verb "to go"; In northern England and some parts of Northern Ireland (Especially Ulster)it's common to say, "They got together." or "Did he get with her?" meaning they kissed, generally with tongues.
• "Tapping Off"; again, a UK phrase (esp. in the North)
• "Snogging"
• "Tongue Tango"
• "Mouth to mouth Mambo"
• "Tonsil Tennis"
• "Meeting" (As referred to in most of the Republic of Ireland and some parts of North Eastern England)
• "Smogging her bowl" (as referred to in the South Ulster region of Northern Ireland)
• "Pashing" or "Mauling or Eating Face" as referred to in Australia.
• "Nipping" (as referred to in Scotland, especially Glasgow)
• "Canoodling", a phrase used soley in Scotland and Australia.
• "Face Mack"
• "Lizanie" - term commonly used in Poland

[edit] Variation in age

For instance, teenagers who are having their first experiences with sexual and intimate relationships often perceive making out as a serious act of intimacy. However, as knowledge and experience increase, the seriousness tends to decrease. Inexperienced teenagers sometimes play party games in which making out is the main activity, such as Seven Minutes in Heaven as an act of exploration. Another partygame they somtime's play is Spin the Bottle. Teenagers are also known to have social gatherings in which making out, often with someone they are not formally romantically involved with, makes up the bulk of the activities. These gatherings are often referred to as "make-out parties" or more commonly "kissing balls." Sometimes this will only make up a section of a party, often referred to as the "make-out room."

[edit] See also

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• Sexual slang
• French kissing
• Foreplay
• Makeout bandit

[edit] External links

• Urban Dictionary - Make Out
• make-out FAQ