Necking

[zahryn]

maetang got me thinking that I haven't heard the term 'necking' since I was much younger, and I thought it probably didn't mean what I thought it did at that time. I was right....

Courtesy of Wikipedia:

"Necking can refer to:

* Making out, a term for heavy kissing, and particularly kissing of the neck
* Behavior exhibited by (usually ungulate) animals in which the neck is used as either a means of caress or as a weapon; often intrasexual and associated with mating, sexual selection, and homosexual relations in the giraffe.
* The process by which a ductile material deforms under tension forming a thin neck; see Necking (engineering) and Manufacturing.
* British slang for drinking a beverage (usually a pint of beer) in one go.
* Necking down: reducing the diameter of a firearm's barrel to fit a smaller cartridge"

Funnily enough, my neck and the tops of my shoulders have always been quite a sensitive spot for caress or kisses. I'm fresh out of the shower and have just had the penenden pounding water bouncing off my neck and shoulders. Hmmmm.....

Comments

[maetang.livejournal.com]

Gee, and here I was thinking that it was mainly snogging, and not necessarily neck-related! It can be my vocabulary word of the day! :^)

[zahryn.livejournal.com]

Hurrah, shame it didn't come up earlier though. Funny how apropos it is for me. I always thought it was a bit more 'physical' than it's description, verging on the petting side of things.

necking

[velvet512.livejournal.com]

From the days of long ago I remember necking. It was an adventure played slowly by a boy and a girl. Often the boy was the more active and the girl just complient, but sometimes the girl took the initiative. It could be different each time it happened.

True necking begins at the neck as the [male] hand moves down to undo the top button of the blouse. If there is no discouragement the hand moves lower button by button. Then the hand ventures beneath the fabric of the blouse. It cups the sturdiness of the bra. Maybe there is a little kissing going on as well. If there is, this is an encouragement to go further. The hand slides into the bra. Eventually encounters the nipple.

When there is mutual desire and pleasure, the clasp at the back of the bra is unfastened. Maybe they shift around a bit so he can cup a breast in each hand.

Things may go further. His hand may move to her knee, creep up to her stocking tops and meet the fastenings of the suspender belt. What happens after that depends very much on whether or not a heavy arm then descends to prevent his hand moving on to the bare flesh of the thigh ..

Thinking about it now, I suppose it was an extended foreplay but always without the culminating sexual intercourse.

If my memory serves me well, the situation changed in the early 60s when the pill could be generally obtained [by the girl] on doctor's prescription.

There was a different ethos in the late 50s when the boy could be caught in a double bind. If, at the crucial moment, he produced a french letter for safety's sake, she might say "Oh, you thought me easy did you? Thought I was just a tart?". If he didnt produce the necessary at the right moment, she might complain "On, you dont love me enough to come prepared".

Such is life ..

Re: necking

[zahryn.livejournal.com]

Wow, there speaks the voice of experience!! I had always thought it was anything up to and including petting, but of course it wasn't called that when I was at school.

I should spend more time reading Wikipedia I think, after my foray into necking, I had a look at a number of other things to do with 'outercourse' and learnt a lot !!!

*hugs*

Re: necking

[velvet512.livejournal.com]

It was as though there were three stages.

Necking (i.e. touching above the waist) was probably regarded by the girl as relatively innocuous and by the boy as initially an adventure of discovery (not just physical - it could also be an exploration to find out how far the girl might go).

Petting was the next stage. It could follow on from necking and involved touching the girl below the waist. The inexperienced girl would almost certainly resist. An experienced girl would raise herself a little to allow her knickers to be removed. An even more experienced girl would quickly remove her knickers herself or not be wearing any.

Note: there was also a one-piece undergarment known as cami-knickers. It was like an underslip which fastened with three buttons underneath the crotch. A bra was not usually worn with this garment.

The third stage might be involuntarily reached when petting became 'heavy petting' i.e. foreplay which demanded satisfaction by penetrative intercourse. This was the most likely to result in unintended pregnancy.