# Is there an older, more innocuous meaning of "one-night stand"?

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**Created:** [April 14, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-older-more-innocuous-meaning-of-one-night-stand/939970 "2021-04-14T12:51:09Z")\
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> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#):
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> Herman’s Hermits were deliberately marketed as a wholesome alternative to bands that had a more “degenerate” image.

Which is why they professed they were “into something good?”

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> [@MrAtoz](#):
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> Of course, Paul Simon also wrote about “the whores on Seventh Avenue,” and how he occasionally “took some comfort there.” So he wasn’t shy about referencing sex if he wanted to, but he wasn’t doing so when he talked about one-night stands.

Shows only how different the world was in 1969 than in 1964.

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