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dogging n.²

DRAFT ENTRY July 2007

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Brit. slang.

The practice of gathering with other people in a public place, typically a car park, to watch or engage in exhibitionist sexual behaviour.

1986 Sex Maniac's Diary 1987 58 Ravers wanting instantaneous action..can find comrades in the traditional dogging haunts in Great Britain. 1993 J. GREEN It: Sex since since Sixties 75 Then there's dogging; it goes on in carparks. People drive up in their car and watch other people screwing. 2003 Observer 10 Aug. I. 15/6 A recent survey of 260 country parks found that 60 per cent had recorded an increase in 'dogging' and other outdoor sexual activity. 2004 Evening Standard (West End Final ed.) 5 Mar. 84/4 [He] admitted that he visited 'dogging' sites to have sex with strangers. 2007 Sun (Nexis) 27 Jan., My husband is into swinging, dogging, sex with strangers—you name it, he wants it.