To believe we can retire the word "shagging"?

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I was a teenager in the 90s, and the word for casual, semi casual, or run of the mill sexual congress was "shag", as in "shagging" "have a shag", "quick shag", and "shagged em".

I just think, this word has had its day. It has connotations with vintage rugs, thick carpets, unruly beards, and perhaps panting sheepdogs, that are uncomfortable. Other words exist. I don't want to be the self declared Word Police, and appreciate there will be other points of view on this very important topic, but please can we all consider never using it again?

I’m surprised no one has yet nominated “Rumpy Pumpy” as the preferred term!

I tend to use the verb 'to bang' day to day, but I'm not in favour of retiring the word shagging. I like it.

Pumping = farting 😂🤭
Shaggy and Scooby
It's all just words.
@ReplacementBusService - choose to use or retire anyone of them - nobody can give or refuse you permission 🤔

Perhaps we should bring “bonk” out of retirement.

I’d be in favour of this. I don’t have to own a horse though do I?

In memory of Jilly Cooper and her “bonkbusters”

I'm hoping for a return to the romance of 'Hide the sausage'

"Synonyms for 'have sex'
(phrase) in the sense of have sexual intercourse

Synonyms
have sexual intercourse* *
sleep with * *
make love with* *
have (taboo, slang) * *
lay (taboo, slang) * *
roger (taboo, slang) * *
bang (taboo, slang) * *
fuck (taboo, slang) * *
screw (taboo, slang) * *
shaft (taboo, slang) * *
poke (taboo, slang) * *
lie with (archaic)* *
shag (British, taboo, slang) * *
hump (taboo, slang) * *
give someone one (taboo, slang)* *
do the business* *
get it on (informal)* *
go to bed with* *
fornicate (archaic)* *
get your leg over (taboo, slang)* *
have your way with ..."

Personally I like 'shagging'.

Definitely deserves a revival.

Could not agree more OP.

I couldn't even get to the 20 minute mark on Dan Snow's History Hit podcast episode on medieval sex, as medieval historian Dr. Eleanor Janega who joins him (and does most of the talking) on this episode used the shag word more times than I could cope with.

She's American, and I wondered why she was so fixated on that particular term. Maybe she thinks it's quintessentially British. I might have imagined it, but I felt that Dan Snow was cringing throughout as much as I. Just awful.

Copulate

Woohoo, like in the Sims

Negligent of you all for not having mentioned ‘bouncy cuddles’ yet.

Is it bonk?? I always thought it was boink! 😂

I did not know of this! It’s my new favourite!

Nah, it's a great word. Can't think of any suitable replacement. We used to say "Sleeping with / Slept with" - ha ha, they sound so twee now 😄

Nah, it's funny! 😆

I personally love a good rogering lol.

Gross sounding word to me, but to be fair I’m ESL. I never use it and probably never will.

Having it off?

Snogging each others faces off, and feeling each other up!

Shagging is by far the best/easiest way to refer to it!