Dogging Explained

I’ve got to admit, I am not from the UK, but I’ve been picking up on some of the slang that goes with it. One of the ones that really caught my attention was “dogging“. Of course in my head, I didn’t give it a lot of thought, I just assumed it was people walking their dogs and that was the fastest way to say it. “Hey honey, I am going dogging”. But boy was my face ever red when I realized that that isn’t the meaning of the word at all. It is a slang word in the UK for public sex. I guess that kind of makes sense, but I had to go digging and doing my research on it. Let’s see if we can clear this one up so the rest of the world knows what it is.

Origin

The term dogging actually started in the 1970s, so yes you young folks, it started probably before most of you were born, so it isn’t your invention here. You were not the first to go dogging. It actually started when men would spy on couples having sex outdoors. Once he had caught them the first time, he would “dog” their every move to try and catch them having sex outside again, as often as he could possibly catch them. The same thing can also be called voyeurism and exhibitionism. Continue reading Dogging Explained