Married 20 years next Tuesday, no kids. No, we don’t really “make out.” But we do a lot of other little things like touching as we pass each other in the house, stealing smooches, little knowing looks, etc. It all adds up.
Can someone help this foreigner out with some of this weird American dialect of which you all speak? Can you give me definitions for:
- Making out. What ‘precisely’ are we talking about here?
- Smooch (that sounds like slow dancing to me)
Thank you.
Morning-breath make-out? Ick.
SanVito:
- Making out- sloppy tongue kissing.
- Smooch- similar, but (IMO) less sloppy and less tongue, more acceptable in public. More “sweet” than “hot & heavy”.
Together over 25 years, we haven’t made out in years. A lot of touching but we don’t mash our faces together anymore.
Right, gotcha, making out is snogging, and smooching is…kinda snogging too. Maybe a lingering kiss?
Together 26 years. Hadn’t really thought much about it until I started reading this, but hubby and I haven’t ‘made out’ in quite a while. Now I really want to, and he’ll be home next weekend. Yep. We’ll make out.
But no, it’s been a good while. Can’t say how long. When he comes home (only on weekends, he works out of town), we always have a nice, long, full-body hug and hearty kiss. We touch a lot. Of course we have sex. But I do miss the making out, and didn’t even realize it until just now.
Just for the record, he’s 50, I’m close to his age (but I’m younger than him; a fact I never let him forget! 
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I’ve got three kids.
We touch plenty. We’re plenty physically affectionate. I thought we were talking about back-seat of the car, tongues down the throat hot-and-heavy type making out here.
The problem is that before sex was a given, we’d make out and “neck” for hours. I miss that. Once you start having sex it seems like making out is always a precursor for intercourse instead of a goal all on its own. So I’m more reluctant to make out now because I know why he’s kissing me.
So what if we are watching TV on the couch and I give him half a hand job while he nibbles on my ear but we never go actually have sex?
I don’t think tongue kissing is a requirement for making out.
Smooching is specifically kissing - mouth-to-mouth contact.
Making out involves hands wandering all over the place, groping and grabbing and such.
I never heard the word “snogging” before this thread. I like it. It sounds like snu-snu but even funnier. Is it a Britishism specifically?
Hold on a minute- “*half *a hand job”? Sorry, does not compute.
I’ve never heard of “making out” that did not involve tongue kissing. What you’re doing is “foolin’ around”, “hanky panky” or “gettin’ some”. It’s not “making out”.
To me, those imply completion.
I recently split up with my wife of 8 years; we did not “make out” after the first… I dunno, week, maybe. Making out quickly became part of foreplay. I’ve had a girlfriend for the past three months; we’ve made out on exactly two occasions, and the second one we went ahead and had sex. Now making out is definitely a minutes-long activity for us, but it is also a prelude to the removal of clothing and things which logically follow from that.
I think it might be worth a poll to determine who feels stronger that making out to be an end in itself - men or women? I’d bet that women feel making out to be an end in itself a lot more.
I meant the question to be more about kissing specifically, which is what I have in mind when I talk about making out. Should have been clearer. 
My boyfriend has his hand down my shirt countless times a day, but he was wondering why we don’t smooch for long periods the way we used to before. (And as others have pointed out, we only did that when we couldn’t have sex because of circumstances and there was no other outlet for our, uh, passion.)
Yes, it’s British slang, used universally up and down the country.
Lucky so-and-so. If I have my hand in my wife’s shirt more than once a day, it’s because I did her laundry. :mad:
No ten minute sessions anymore, but a few minute sessions, sure we do. It’s often when one of us is rushing out the door to work or a meeting, and we both want more “quality time” together but instead have a little make out/grope thing. Maybe try it when you guys rush out the door?
Been together 3, lived together 2.5, married .5. Still make out. It’s fun!