What is Heavy Petting?

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And can we do it around swimming pools?

[prompted by the PJ-Jade arguments]

― N>, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You silly boy. It is rummaging in each other's pants innit? Light petting = poss. snogging accompanied by the sort of groping you might do in public. This is like a problem page in J17 for god's sake!

― Emma, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and can we eat it?

[i was v tempted to post giant cat, believe you me]

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So rummaging but not actually attempting to bring to orgasm? Is that it? What heading does putting your hand up a girl's jumper come under?

Small point - PJ didn't have any pants on. Does this make a difference?

― N., Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it is the elephant in the room

― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

N. is that really you or is it a 12 year old boy who has stolen your computer? You are nearly 30 man!

Hand up jumper = prolly light petting. Is it under or over the bra? And there us little point in rummaging if you have no intention of causing orgasm /some form of sexual fulfilment is there, unless you have lost something down there.

― Emma, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But it can be hard/frustrating for a woman to rummage a clothed man to orgasm.

― N., Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

is there a 'medium petting' level? there seems to be a big jump from light to heavy according to these definitions

― michael, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and 'hand up jumper' can't count as 'light petting' since that was defined to be kissing in public, or are you all freak exhibitionists?

― michael, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

is there a 'medium petting' level IT IS A CONTINUUM.

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'In public' is probably not very helpful as there is a difference between 'in public' in a club and 'in public' at the church fete.

The underwear & outerwear can - and perhaps should - be wholly or partially removed, Nick, if that helps to allay your fears.

― Emma, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

inter-pant fumbling is definitely easier with trousers etc undone if not removed.

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well when I said outerwear can be removed (i.e. it is optional) I was meaning that if you are a girl being fumbled you can keep your skirt on. Depending on the style of skirt I suppose.

― Emma, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Heavy petting = taking your hippopotamus for its daily walk. (I'm sharp today)

― DG, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I see definitions of petting as being a bit like gears on a bike. You can go up to 18 or even 21 different grades if you like, but really, however you describe it is not going to change what actually goes on.

And, erm, if you're not getting any sexual gratification of some sort out of it, you're doing it wrong :-)

― Mark C, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If N> were 12 this question would be sensible.

― Nicole, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the petting is only as heavy as you feel.

― Ronan, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As N. sort of suggests in the question, the only place you see the expression used these days is on swimming pool guideline things i.e. no diving no bombing no heavy petting (and certainly no trying to do all of them at once). It is utterly dated and irrelevant to the sex lives of modern youngsters who have no time for such foreplayesque trivialities.

― Emma, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sigh...

― gareth, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do youngsters actually swim these days? And if not, can we remove the signs?

I'd have thought they'd have given council swimming pool fun a miss as it interfered wiv ther ability to mash the Inglish langwige wiv ther NED txting dementia.

― Nathan Barley, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

21 grades of petting??? Oh my.

― rosemary, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kids these days are over foreplay?

I'm always the *last* to know.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You must be the second last to know, because the bloke out of Del Amitri is always the last of all.

― N., Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't he Momus's cousin?

― nabisco%%, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah - he is. Where is Momus, anyway? I would ask his cousin, but..

― N., Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's eating too many sandwichs...oh wait that's heavy pretting.

― jel --, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh boy.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I take solace in the fact that a genius is not usually recognised in their life time.

― jel --, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

light petting is putting yr finger up someone's butt; heavy petting is putting your forearm up there.

― Queen G of the Silly Walk, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought he was his brother. Cue family reunions:

Nick - "so I was listening to Home Truths..."
Justin (?): "Wait, wait, a minute Momuspants - do you like Hitler?"

― david h(owie), Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

By now, I'd have thought "heavy petting" was slang for the polite form of begging. However, I'd say that there are a few steps between kissing her neck and rolling up her jumper.

― Nichole Graham, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1. "I love you"

2. "darling"

― Graham, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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