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1. "Scoring"
2. "Hooking up"

Both of these generally refer to getting laid, not making out.

This may be the case in America but in the UK "Scoring" refers primarily to buying class A drugs, particularly heroin. "Hooking up" is simply to meet with people, and one may arrange to hook up with family or friends for any purpose, with no motive or agenda inferred. ````

Perhaps some one more educated then I can anwser this, but isn't necking often considered to be an act of trust, as well? The neck being a very vundrible region and all. --71.124.154.120 14:26, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  What??

I think some of this article is a little assumptive toward gender. Perhaps it could be made a bit more neutral, unless the slang is applied ONLY to one sex? For example:

""Swapping spit," since a kisser can get his saliva in his/her partner's mouth. Again, this can be used derogatorily."

This assumes that at least one partner is male. You can just say "since saliva may be left in a partner's mouth" and avoid the issue. Or you can make first pronoun a his/her construction. Either way would do well, I think. The part about baseball euphemisms has the same problem, only it's assuming at least one partner is female. Just a suggestion to anyone who works on this page.

I've deleted "googling her mouth hole" from the synonym list, but I'd like to memorialize it as the best wikipedia vandalisation I've yet encountered.

• A worthy attrocity, indeed. :D --24.15.165.14 04:46, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How is ciatation needed for stuff that normally takes place at parties? Jesus Christ do they need an article about it or something?

What Happened to the cool picture of the two kids making out. put another one in. 01:39, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

• Looks like it was deleted on WP due to already existing in the wikimedia commons, and then deleted from the commons a few days ago due for being incorrectly tagged as public domain. (Wow, I can't believe I just spent the last ten minutes researching this.) Electrolite 01:41, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone know when the term first came into use. I have done a little research but have been unable to determine the history of the term or when it came into popular use.

As far as I know, the term's meaning has shifted over the last five years or so (at least when used by people in late adolescence) to encompass more activites. I can't find any cites for this, though. Tlogmer (Talk / Contributions) 13:04, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with this. I am a Baby Boomer & in my day, "making out" did NOT necessarily imply petting, just prolonged kissing that might not even involve tongue use.(Some girls would kiss you till the proverbial cows came home, but try to cop a feel and you were in trouble.)

-Can we lose the dykes?--70.29.71.45 03:47, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... I thought that Wikipedia was not a dictionary. Jchillerup 20:23, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a thesaurus, either. My problem is that some of the synonyms are not widely, if at all, used. This isn't urbandictionary.com . This is why citing is important.--Jickyincognito 23:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article suggests 'Trapping Off' is used in Northern England. I've never heard it (and I'm from the North). Can somebody confirm it's actually used?

Same here for the German "Bratwürsten": I'm from Franconia in Bavaria, which i must say is the main state for "Bratwürste" but I have never heard of the the term "Bratwürsten" for making out...

Whilst we are on the topic, I have never heard "pulling" being used to describe making out in the UK either. I have always understood it to mean intercourse. 129.67.43.240 22:53, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

'pulling' on a night out when i was much younger and going to under 18s discos did indeed mean solely kissing and/or associated groping - Masterplan79th

I had the impression that pulling means the recruitment of a partner, rather than the subsequent consummation. Would you say "My spouse and I pull every night"? —Tamfang (talk) 08:25, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This sections is states definitively that "necking" is kissing, licking, etc. specifically to the neck. That's wrong, from what i've seen "necking" is a (rather disused) catch-all term.

• necking: Informal. the act of embracing, kissing, and caressing amorously; petting.[1]

• Groucho Marx "Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."[2]

Does it make sense? No. But when George Bailey tells his mother he's going to "find a girl and do a little passionate necking," it's neither explicitly sexual nor explicitly about necks.

Perhaps it's modern connotations are different?

Bantosh 15:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Read a book in 1950 that called anything not involving the "caressing of breasts and genitals" necking. Necking doesn't seem like it's an activity exclusively involving the neck.

Wow that was an awkward sentence. 152.23.196.162 04:02, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am removing the section on necking as it is factually inaccurate and uncited. I am also removing the list of synonyms per WP:NOT. I think if all the unnecessary information is removed, this article will be no more than a {{stub}} and I may nominate it for deletion. The only reason I haven't done so already is that it is apparently referenced in dozens, perhaps hundreds, of other wikiarticles. --Nonstopdrivel 23:36, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I live in Vancouver, and I heard media reports that there was a group in Vancouver that was in the business of promoting making out. This group planned to ride buses and trains and make out the entire ride, and to hopefully get media attention to thier cause. Does anyone else know about this ?? Should it be added to the article ??

Some may and seem to be having problems with the picture and I understand why: It is of lesbians. I personally do not care but I would not change it back if it were changed to male/female.--WhereAmI 06:55, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Sounds fine to me as long as it isn't removed altogether and not replaced with another picture. --The_stuart 15:59, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I removed this sentence because I thought that it seemed more like POV thinking than fact. --Austinsimcox 13:36, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have semi-protected the page as it (not surprisingly) seems to be a frequent target for vandals. At the very least people will have to create an account to slag this article for now. --Nonstopdrivel 14:54, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Disregard. As I am not yet an admin, I do not have these privileges. --Nonstopdrivel 23:29, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

After eliminating unencyclopedic content and rework for content and style, this article barely qualifies as a {{stub}}. If significant action is not taken to cite claims and flesh out content, I will nominate this article for merger with French kiss. There's nothing substantive in this article that isn't (or couldn't be) covered there. Again, as I stated previously, the only reason I haven't nominated this article for deletion or merger is that it is apparently cited by numerous other articles.

I welcome discussion on this point. --Nonstopdrivel 23:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's a slang phrase for French kissing. A merger seems quite appropriate.

Peter ^Isotalo 09:11, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say it's not really appropriate to have this in the French Kiss article. French kissing is a pretty specific act, making out is more general. If anything, the French kissing article should be merged in as part of this since it is often part of 'making out', but I don't have a problem with them remaining separate. --jjron 09:35, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

These two words, and its format: "'make-out sesh'" ( it is not three apostrophes, but a double one, and then one apostrophe ). Corrected!

• Text replacement (it was): "'make-out sesh'"
• And it is: make-out sesh, ( or make-out sesh )

Note, I've assumed it was an error, and not intentional one, i.e.: 'make-out sesh', "make-out sesh".
--PLA y Grande Covián (talk) 16:05, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Originally, it ['make out'] meant "to seduce" or "to have sexual intercourse with".

The equation here implies that one could say John made out Marcia, meaning either John seduced Marcia or John had s.i. with Marcia. Is that intended?

Studies indicate that at the beginning of the 20th century, premarital sex increased, and with it, petting behavior in the 1920s.

Petting increased twenty years afterward? What next, dancing?! —Tamfang (talk) 08:20, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I do not see the point of the Freud quotation in regard to the topic of the entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.82.125.29 (talk) 16:18, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Afreen Al Mansura, popularly known as Afreen Mansura is the most beautiful girl in this world. She was born in Dhaka on 26 june, 1991. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sajjadur Rahman Majumder (talk • contribs) 09:14, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

there's more than one type of making out not just frenching, perhaps it could be considered a form of passionate kissing?

The word "petting" has other uses (e. g., some types of grooming) - I think it should be converted to a disambiguation page of some kind. Jarble (talk) 01:46, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What has "hooking up" got to do with "making out"? It is a completely different term and is kind of jarring to be there. Bhny (talk) 00:16, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I see "hooking up" has been removed before as an erroneous synonym- [[3]]. This may explain how the sentence was left hanging without a reason to be there. Since no one has commented I will remove it. Bhny (talk) 16:34, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In human sexuality, making out is a sexual euphemism... It's redundant to say sexual twice.

('sexual euphemism' also ambiguously implies it is sex. It is just a "euphemism".) Bhny (talk) 00:16, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

as there were no objections I performed this minor edit Bhny (talk) 22:15, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

which are part of the "Flapper" discussion - a description of a social 'break' where women rejecting "morals" and restrictions in the post WWI era, participated enthusiasticly in behaviour that that directly challneged social norms strictly enforced in immediately preceding eras, are not reflected here. This article, redirecting from "petting parties" on the page discussing the '20's' gender revolt, cites the 30's and forties as the beginning of the phenomenon. This whole discussion is not handled well, here, or honestly, elsewhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.36.241.2 (talk) 19:09, 11 October 2013‎ (UTC)[reply]

"Petting" re-directs to here, and "petting" and "heavy petting" are used in the article, but I can't see where they are defined or explained.211.225.33.104 (talk) 08:51, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]