Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: application to women of word 'horny' Message-ID: <768@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 04:38:31 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.768 Posted: Thu Jul 4 04:38:31 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 05:37:53 EDT Organization: U Chicago -- Linguistics Dept Lines: 18 From: quint@topaz.ARPA (Amqueue) > What makes you think that girls don't have strong physical reactions to the > sight of aesthetically pleasing men? Girls get horny too, and just because ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ > dont have an obvious visible physical reaction doesnt mean we dont have the > same desires. Has the application of the word `horny' to women become well established in colloquial speech? If you have opinions on this, or introspections on your own usage, please see a discussion and questionnaire that I have posted to net.nlang. The article number (if that helps) is <767@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>. Thanks, -- -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar