rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) (03/23/85)
>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. -- rod williams | pacific bell | san francisco ----------------------------------------------------------------------- {ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,decwrl,amd70,fortune,zehntel}!dual!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw