Why do some people call sex 'hanky panky'

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I went out with a guy who called it this. I found it weird and suggests he thinks people shouldn't be doing it. And cringeworthy.

It's just a retrospective colloquialism.

No different to a bit of "how's your Father" or a million other euphemisms for sex historically.

You are overreacting.

A man who calls sex ‘hanky panky’ should never, ever be allowed to touch you. HTH.

What about "rumpy pumpy"?

🤣🤣 I just don't like it. I think that how people use language does, to a certain extent reveal something about their thought processes.

So what does "hanky panky" reveal then? Or should I say expose ?

Calling it hanky panky sounds like he lives in a Carry On film

Rumpy pumpy is funny I think - DP & I sometimes refer to it jokingly as that. Otherwise we call it sex, fucking or shagging

"Rumpy pumpy" makes me think of someone with a moustache who reads the Sun and likes women in stockings and suspenders.

Sex: a bit clinical.

Fucking: ow I've put my back out; can we stop?

Making love: soft rock, big hair and satin sheets after midnight.

Swiving: Shakespeare.

The couple that invented sex (circa 1676) were called Hankthaniel Pankinthorpe and Rumbilena Pumpidou. The names stuck with the activity for many years - but like most words they evolved to the shortened versions that are prevalent today.

Source: I'm a professor of ancient stuff at the university of things.

They invented sex ??
I am pretty sure they didn't!

Invented sex??! lol who invented breathing?

They did, I was there at the time

OP, "hanky panky" is silly expression, and you are NBU to cringe when you hear it. The full phrase, "Hanky panky winky wanky" is another matter however and could not offend anybody.

People who say "Rumpy Pumpy" read the Daily Telegraph not the Sun!

Lmao you lot crack me up.

Use it when i taking the piss.

My personal fave
'sexy sexy time'

Oh yes - sexy time that's another shocker!!

"Sexy time" sounds like "mat time" or "dinner time", although I suppose they can be combined.

Swiving? New one on me...

My personal fave is knockin' boots (prederably in a texan accent) as heard on the Client List.

Out of interest OP, what do you call it?

I call it sex, obvs

Oh 😂

I suppose it depends on the context

I liked hanky panky winky wanky personally 😂😂

lol I suppose I felt the way he was saying it was like it was not a normal thing to do.

That's very bourgeois. DW and I call it "our duty to the Party".

We now call it "having a dip" I told DP I needed a Dip one morning (meaning a dip for breadsticks at sainsburys) and he thought I meant I wanted sex. Weird.

Haha these are brilliant 😂

I don't really think we call it anything... we just do it 🤷🏼‍♀️😂