Hooking Up?
It just occurred to me how vulgar that phrase is. And I don't even mean anything to do with the morality of casual sex. You can think whatever you want about that. I just mean the aesthetics of how the phrase sounds, and how it makes the act referred to sound.
A tryst
An affair
An amorous liaison
Those sound nice, like something exotic and mysterious. Even more recent ones sound kind of playful and fun at least -
making whoopie
gettin' jiggy wid it
But "hooking up"? Sounds like something I'd do with train cars, or with an ox-cart, something mechanical that I just need to get done as quickly and cheaply as possible. Yuck.
A tryst
An affair
An amorous liaison
Those sound nice, like something exotic and mysterious. Even more recent ones sound kind of playful and fun at least -
making whoopie
gettin' jiggy wid it
But "hooking up"? Sounds like something I'd do with train cars, or with an ox-cart, something mechanical that I just need to get done as quickly and cheaply as possible. Yuck.
posted by KPaffenroth at
11:39 AM
2 Comments:
Yeah, it is an awfully impersonal way of talking about doing the nasty (another pretty euphamism).
Taking the personal out of such a personal act is aesthetically unappealing. I suspect it's the root of the moral objections too. When a lover is treated as no more than a unit for a mechanical coupling there's some injustice there IMO.
I'm sure moral objections come from all different places - but I always find it interesting when the aesthetic element (which I think people agree on more often than the moral interpretation) tends to reinforce the moral aspect.
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