Word: gropes
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...problem lies in the very anonymity that I had hoped would so liberate our spirits. A Swarthmore psychologist found in the '70s that if you put a group of total strangers together in the dark, they do things they wouldn't think of doing with the lights on--like grope. This is a result, apparently, of sexual repression. Put us in cyberspace wearing masks like "Demonboy," and an awful lot of us become gropers in the dark...
...idea of a virtual grope is appealing for so many reasons, not the least of which is availability. Who wouldn't want to be able to make out on demand with Marilyn Monroe or your upstairs neighbor for that matter? Virtual sex would solve the perpetual problem of who to take home from a party. Who needs to settle for beer goggling when the man of your dreams in available electronically? A virtual man won't steal the covers for one thing...
Anne's getting that glazed look in her eyes; I grope for an analog analogy. ``Remember The Exorcist? Well, Raster has just been possessed, like the chick in the flick. Except it's not just Beelzebub. It's a customer-service...
...Ramzi Ahmed Yousef showed, drug traffickers, terrorists, nuclear smugglers, money launderers and regional warlords aren't found on the diplomatic circuit. To penetrate the new threat, unconventional covers are needed. Indeed, President Clinton's newly nominated CIA spymaster--Air Force General Michael P.C. Carns--will have to continue to grope through the murky new world of espionage. ``General Carns will face a challenge,'' Clinton said last week. ``The cold war is over, but many new dangers have taken its place...
Some modern terms are not as new as one might think. Teenagers who grope (fondle) may be surprised to learn that lovers were groping in the 14th century. Blacks who believe that bad (for good) is freshly minted will find its coinage dates to 1897. In early-18th century England, a female prostitute was gay; not until the 1930s did gay begin to become associated with male homosexuality...