# Smilf ? Really ???
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilf-really/801684
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 15, 2017, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilf-really/801684 "2017-11-15T12:29:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilf-really/801684/41 "2017-11-17T18:17:28Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#):
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> I think the term MILF at this point, despite the obvious inclusion of the word “fuck” and definition of the acronym, is fairly de-sexualized and commonplace that it’s lost all of it’s edgy/offensiveness.
Maybe I’m behind the times but what meaning does it have that is not sexualized? To my understanding, MILF means “attractive older woman that I desire sexually”. How do you take the sex out of that?
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilf-really/801684/42 "2017-11-17T19:26:51Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#):
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> Maybe I’m behind the times but what meaning does it have that is not sexualized? To my understanding, MILF means “attractive older woman that I desire sexually”. How do you take the sex out of that?
Maybe he means like a platonic hump.
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### Author:  [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilf-really/801684/43 "2017-11-17T21:20:47Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#):
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> Maybe I’m behind the times but what meaning does it have that is not sexualized? To my understanding, MILF means “attractive older woman that I desire sexually”. How do you take the sex out of that?
If a woman tells a friend “Girl, you look hot!”, would you say that is a sexualized statement? Although the etymology of MILF his highly sexualized, the meaning today can be practically synonymous with hot, except for it being limited to proven child bearers.
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### Author:  [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilf-really/801684/44 "2017-11-17T21:37:16Z")
I’ll toss in a vote for “it’s obviously about sex, duh, and that hasn’t changed.” I’d like to also put forth the statement “Even if the show’s producers somehow think that ‘MILF’ isn’t about sex/sexuality, they CLEARLY used the term for is sexual meaning, since they knew that’s how the bulk of people capable of understanding acronyms would parse it. Salacious!”
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilf-really/801684/45 "2017-11-18T03:20:01Z")
Mansions I’d like to furnish.
Movies I’d like to forget.
Mistakes I’d like to fix.
As long as we’re not trying to stay with the original context, the possibilities are endless. (“Moron” and “fondle” are both good, but I don’t want to pair them up.)
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