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I watched "CSI: Miami" last week, and heard a new expression: "toothing", which apparently means meeting strangers for casual sex, by means of some kind of mobile phone text messaging device.

I looked for information about it on the web, and found references to its being a hoax started in England. I also found references to "dogging", which seems to be about having sex outdoors, with people watching. I don't know whether that is a hoax, but my recollections of the weather in England would suggest that it won't catch on.

And then there was gerbilling...
Fran

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[nq:1]I watched "CSI: Miami" last week, and heard a new expression: "toothing", which apparently means meeting strangers for casual ***, by means of some kind of mobile phone text messaging device.[/nq]
Probably a reference to "Bluetooth". http://www.bluetooth.com/

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/bluetooth.htm give a better explanation of how this wireless form of communication works.

Tony Cooper
Orlando FL

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Frances Kemmish put finger to keyboard in this fashion:
[nq:1]I watched "CSI: Miami" last week, and heard a new expression: "toothing", which apparently means meeting strangers for casual ***, ... but my recollections of the weather in England would suggest that it won't catch on. And then there was gerbilling...[/nq]
"*******" is not a hoax, unless it's a very long lasting and well organised hoax with hundreds of people maintaining web sites just for the fun of it (I have no personal experience, you understand). I've never heard of "toothing".

David
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[nq:1]I watched "CSI: Miami" last week, and heard a new expression: "toothing", which apparently means meeting strangers for casual ***, by means of some kind of mobile phone text messaging device. I looked for information about it on the web,[/nq]
Bluetooth enabled phones would would inform their promiscuous users that there was another connection possible when a bluetooth enabled cad happened into close proximity. I'm not sure how they could tell it was actually an available pervert and not just some guy in the wrong place who'd left on his fancy pants mobile phone. Maybe they have some sort of secret handshaking protocol.

"When you pull a gun, kill a man."
-, "My Darling Clementine"

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[nq:1]I watched "CSI: Miami" last week, and heard a new expression: "toothing", which apparently means meeting strangers for casual ***, ... but my recollections of the weather in England would suggest that it won't catch on. And then there was gerbilling...[/nq]
I cannot help you with toothing and gerbilling ("going at it like a couple of gerbils, they were!"), but I do know, in theory only, about *******. I read about it on a website to do with Leeds, but I have lost its address. There is a ******* location just three-quarters of a mile from my house, in the small car park for Stairfoot Woods. I occasionally go with my wife to that car park, for a walk, not for *******. I have not mentioned the idea of ******* to my wife, and I have no intention of doing so.
We go for our walk in daylight hours. After dark, the whole character of the car park changes, if I am to believe the article. In *******, there are "performers" and "watchers". The performers turn up first, and sit waiting in their car. When a carload of watchers turns up, it flashes its lights twice as it enters the car park, to indicate that they really are watchers, not just ordinary members of the public. The performers' car replies by flashing its lights twice, to indicate that they really are performers.

The performers then have *** in their car, and the watchers are allowed to watch. Presumably, the watchers enjoy a little **** as well, to pass the time, but this is just my guess. I am not sure what all the rules of ******* are. Are the watchers allowed to get out of their car and pear directly through the side-windows of the performers' car? Or would this be considered bad form? I just don't know. After dark, are you allowed to shine a powerful torchlight into the performers' car, to enable you to see better? Or would this be considered an encroachment on their privacy? Again, I just don't know.

There were many questions left unanswered in the article that I read. The fact that I do not know all the rules is probably the main reason, combined with my basic lack of "bottle", why I haven't been there as a watcher. I too enjoy a little **** from time to time.

I did understand, however, that the performers provide this entertainment entirely free of charge to any member of the public who chooses to turn up at an opportune time.
Richard Chambers Leeds UK.

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[nq:1]I cannot help you with toothing and gerbilling ("going at it like a couple of gerbils, they were!"), but I ... location just three-quarters of a mile from my house, in the small car park for Stairfoot Woods. [/nq]
I decided, after tea, to do a Google search on . Hey presto, bingo :-
http://www.melanies-uk-swingers.com/goingout/*******/counties/lancashire-swingers.htm

Richard Chambers Leeds UK.

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[nq:1]I decided, after tea, to do a Google search on . Hey presto, bingo :- http://www.melanies-uk-swingers.com/goingout/*******/counties/lancashire-swingers.htm[/nq]
I decided to do some more research, this time on www.askjeeves.co.uk . The question I asked was "what is *******?".
The third site on their list of answers was the most informative. This was site www.dogginghotline.co.uk .
The following is the relevant extract :-

So, what happens?
Well, men, women and couples turn up in cars, and wait to see who else turns up. The couples or women then turn on their inside light if they want to be watched, the people who want to watch come on over and take a look at the women or couples getting *****, usually whilst masturbating. Sometimes it goes further than that, and the windows roll down, and the men are invited to fondle the women, and sometimes even more. Some people move it on to blow-jobs and even full ***! Either in the car, through the window, or even just in the open air!
Just imagine what you could get up to! Pop along to a ******* location and within 15 minutes you could be getting the sucking of you life before *** some ***** *** over the bonnet of your car, whilst other guys and girls watch whilst wanking and wait for their turn!

Richard Chambers Leeds UK.

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[nq:2]I watched "CSI: Miami" last week, and heard a new ... means of some kind of mobile phone text messaging device.[/nq]
[nq:1]Probably a reference to "Bluetooth". http://www.bluetooth.com/[/nq]
Sounds like a likely candidate. But it would make it very unlikely that the suggested British origin was true.

Andrew Gwilliam
To email me, replace "bottomless pit" with "silverhelm"

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[nq:1]Frances Kemmish wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]And then there was gerbilling...[/nq]
[nq:1]I cannot help you with toothing and gerbilling ("going at it like a couple of gerbils, they were!") [/nq]
I would have taken it as a rather different reference. Cf. rumours concerning Richard Gere from a few years ago.

Andrew Gwilliam
To email me, replace "bottomless pit" with "silverhelm"

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[nq:1]I watched "CSI: Miami" last week, and heard a new expression: "toothing", which apparently means meeting strangers for casual ***, by means of some kind of mobile phone text messaging device.[/nq]
Was it said with a (D) or a (T)?

Andrew Gwilliam
To email me, replace "bottomless pit" with "silverhelm"

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[nq:2]Probably a reference to "Bluetooth". http://www.bluetooth.com/[/nq]
[nq:1]Sounds like a likely candidate. But it would make it very unlikely that the suggested British origin was true.[/nq]
This any help?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,67137,00.html?tw=wn tophead 6 dated 5 April 2005, Wired News.

Dozens of news organizations, including Wired News, have been duped by pranksters claiming to be practitioners of "toothing" anonymous sexual encounters organized through Bluetooth devices.
Last year, in a story headlined Brits Going at It Tooth and Nail, Wired News reported that strangers in Britain were meeting up on commuter trains and other public places for clandestine sexual encounters. The liaisons were ..
Richard Chambers Leeds UK.

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