Maybe this should go in General Questions, then. Does afterglow generate meaningful heat? We must find out FOR SCIENCE! 
This just in: I went outside and no icy man bit at my nose. Will update as further metaphors reveal their nonliteralness.
Um … is there any reason why “hold me tight all the way home” should not literally mean hold me tight (i.e., hug me) throughout the journey home? That could be a reasonably effective way of staying warm.
Our very prurient and puritanical age has made something nasty out of what was sweet, comical, and good-humored when it was written.
Date rape smells like chloroform.
I don’t think it has anything to do with either prurience or Puritanism, but I agree that it’s a different and sensitized age. I do still love the song, however, particularly if Dinah Shore is involved.
This. And I might add, she doesn’t sound like she’s been drugged, yet at no time does she make any attempt to get up and leave.
“Say, what’s in this drink…?”
Really?
I’ll never listen to this song again without thinking of how it was twisted into something its not. Thanks, dopers.
Now you can hear this song and think of Bonnie Tyler. That’s so much better!
:rolleyes: Is her speech slurred? Is she slumping down in her seat? Is she fighting to keep her eyes open? Is she snoring? Is she spilling the drink? Does she remain in her seat because she’s unable to stand up? Does she ask him to help her get home, because she’s too stoned to walk or hail a taxi?
Calm down dear, it’s the lyrics to a song with a porno twist (in the OP).
Yeah, because the date rapeyness of Baby, It’s Cold Outside is something dopers came up with.
That you figured out that it was a quote from something is better than hrhomer did. Part of the fun of these types of threads is in not telling you where the quote is from, and seeing if you get it.
And, yeah, while the song is entirely full of flirting and innuendo, it doesn’t go quite that far. Though my little-kid mind boggled when it finally figured out what the guy wanted to do with the lights “turned way down low.”
Yes, the song seems to imply the guy will be walking home alone.
Now, the fire is slowly dying.
But, my dear, we’re still goodbye-ing.
Why, he wanted to pop some corn, of course.
Oh no, you rolled your eyes! Even though I said it had a lingering scent and an overwhelming stench, I feel chastised! Please replace ‘date rape’ with ‘sexually predatory behavior’. Thank you.
Indeed, in fact I googled the lyrics this morning, and on the first page of hits this exact topic came up.
Every time I hear “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” it seems obvious to me that the man is her boss, married to someone else, and her cousin.
You obviously care a lot more about this than I do.
But would it make you feel better if the genders were reversed? Or same-sex?
I don’t think that interpretation is new, I think the difference is that we no longer find date rape sweet, comical, and good-humored.
That said, the lyrics allow for the interpretation that her fighting him off was merely pro forma.
And “Let it Snow” is really pretty much the same thing without possible hints of rape.