SEX: EVERYONE’S DOING IT—NOT!
TRANSCRIPT
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Guy: Sex sells.
Girl: What if you end up pregnant?
Girl: I first learned about sex on TV shows.
Guy: Sex, sex, sex.
Dana: It’s not worth it.
Francisco: Give me some love.
Skit member: Not. Not. Chill
Jennifer: I just thought it’d be a good idea to get tested.
Girl: People look up to you if you don’t have sex.
Guy: Your hormones are building up.
Teri: Everybody’s connected.
Girl: Diseases. Pregnancy.
Guy: Everyone does it.
Girl: The first time you can’t get pregnant.
Guy: Horizontal mambo.
Guy: Chunky monkey.
Guy: Bagging the muppet [?]
Kate: Those feelings are definitely there.
Guy: I’d be thinking the act of sex.
Girl: Everything changes after you have sex with somebody.
Francisco: Not everybody is doing it and that’s the fact.
Melissa: You know what? Everyone around you isn’t having sex, even if they say they are.
Max: But from the way you hear about it all over the place, the media, everywhere, I mean, you’d think that.
Melissa: You’d think that everybody was doing it, but they’re not.
Hi, I’m Melissa.
Max: And I’m Max. Today on IN THE MIX we’re going to meet up with teens across the country, some who’ve had sex and some who haven’t.
Melissa: We’ll also take a hard look at the pressures, reasons and how sex has affected some of their lives. And we’ll show you how to handle certain situations that nobody really ever talks about, hear some of the funniest, off-the-wall myths about sex.
Max: Check it out.
Girl: I think girls and guys have sex too early because they’re pressured from their friends to.
Guy: I think that the majority of people at our high school aren’t having sex.
Girl: I think a lot of people make up the fact that they’re doing it just to be superior at school.
Guy: The guys are like, ‘Yo, I just did this with my girl and like, oh, man!, it was the best I ever did, you know?’ And meanwhile he was at home watching Nick at Night, you know.
Girl: Other people are doing it and then they feel like they have to also.
Girl: A friend, she had sex at an early age, at thirteen. And I’ve spoken to her now and she really regrets it because she didn’t even know the guy. They weren’t in love and it’s just something she did because she wanted to feel cooler, or it was just peer pressure and her boyfriend wanted it.
Guy: One of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made in my life was probably having sex at an early age.
Guy: The reason I did it was because I felt that I had to.
Guy: It was like all my friends were just talking about sex and my girlfriend and I just weren’t ready for it.
Guy: Both of my older brothers, they were always talking about sex and I felt left out because I had no stories. And I just couldn’t relate on that level, so I just felt the pressure to go out there and have sex.
Guy: I didn’t mature like my friends did. Puberty didn’t strike me at age eleven, but I went and tried to have sex and it was just a horrible experience. I was not ready for that physically or mentally.
Francisco: As a peer advocate our responsibility is to write skits on issues that are affecting teenagers. We give them the facts: this is what really happens. This is what people think that happens.
Jessica: We’re trying to let all the teens know out there that not everybody is doing it, that sex is not what you see on TV that, ‘Oh, yeah, he loves me and we’re going to stay forever and ever if I do it with him.’
Skit member: What’s up, like you’re not having sex with your girl yet?
Francisco to skit member: What’s up, man? Why you got to go there for? I mean, that’s my business. That’s personal.
Francisco: In the first scene, you know, he’s pressuring Francisco. He’s not doing it and he needs to start doing it because everybody else is doing it.
Skit member: I’d just give her till Friday.
Francisco: Friday?
Skit member: Friday. Just give her till Friday if she don’t give it up?
Francisco: That’s messed up. That’s messed up.
Guy: Let’s say you have a relationship and your friends are all in your business saying, ‘Did you have sex yet? Did you have sex yet?’ And they’re pressuring you to have sex in order for them to be entertained and have something to talk about.
Skit member: You know, I’ll just catch you later.
Francisco: Oh, don’t worry, kid. I’m gamewise [?] from now on. Yeah, right. I ain’t getting nothing.
Jessica: In the second scene is when Francisco comes into his girlfriend’s house and when he tries to pressure her.
Francisco: Look, I mean that I think it’s about that time for us, you know, to start doing it.
Skit member: As in, you and me, naked in the bed, having sex?
Francisco: As in, me, you, naked in the bed, having sex as every other couple that loves each other make it in the bed having sex. I mean, what’s wrong with you, girl?
Skit member: Well, I don’t think I’m ready to have sex with you yet.
Jessica: She feels awkward because he’s been in the house plenty of times and he’s never like talked to her about this.
Francisco: What’s up. Give me some love.
Skit member: Not, not. Chill.
Francisco: See how the pressure goes into the girl, from the friend to Francisco, from Francisco to the girl.
Francisco to skit member: When you think you’re ready to do this, all you got to do is pick up a phone and give me a call so you ___________________Friday.
Francisco: What you talking about Friday, Francisco? What’s going to happen on Friday?
Jessica: You know, you give her an ultimatum like if she doesn’t do it with him that they’re going have to break up or something.
Girl: I think girls have a lot of pressure from their boy friends. And they use the lines, ‘If you really loved me, you’d have sex with me.’
Guy: If a guy used a line on you like, ‘If you loved me,’ what would you say?
Girl: All right, I would laugh, and I’d tell him it’s so pathetic. I can’t believe a guy would even say that.
Guy: Also, girls can pressure guys. Let’s not have that misconception that it’s all guys’ faults.
Guy: This girl pressured me because she was ready and I wasn’t. And you know how girls can grow up faster than guys.
Girl: In a relationship, yes, you do want to satisfy the other person, but if you’re not ready, then what is that going to do for you? You kind of need to think ten steps ahead. Am I ready to possibly have a child, if I get pregnant? Am I ready to face having a disease?
Guy: It’s not something that you have to do. It’s not in any contracts. It’s not written anywhere that, in a relationship, you must have sex. Relationships—I’ve known relationships that go on for years without nobody having sex.
Kate: We’ve been together for about a year and a half. Once you’re together, you know, like for a year, say, people just assume that you’re having sex. It’s so surprising from—to hear from somebody that, ‘No, we’re not having sex.’ And that, it’s so weird for people to hear it, I think.
Those feelings are definitely there, the desire, the temptation, the wanting to like, you know, have sex.
Sex is being talked about everywhere. Every magazine that you look at, they’re talking about sex.
Guy: Sex sells. And if someone’s trying to sell something and they’re—you know, throw some half naked chick on the box, it attracts attention. Sex attracts attention and sex sells.
Guy: What the media does is like it bombards kids. I was bombarded with like women in bikinis. And the more and more you get that, you’re just going to think sex, sex, sex.
Kate: It seems like it’s the okay, it’s the normal thing to do, you know. Everyone should be doing it. If you’re not, then you’re not up to today’s like standard.
Girl: We see our favorite TV stars having sex on shows. If you see them and you look up to them, then you see they’re doing it, ‘Why shouldn’t I?’
Guy: Everything is about sex in the media. Sex becomes the end all and be all of life.
Guy: They give you this image that no matter who you have sex with, it’s going to be that enjoyable or that long or that precious or whatever. But it’s not always like that.
Girl: You don’t see the next day after. Does a person call, not call? This shows the heat of the moment, what’s going on right then and there, but then that’s it.
Guy: It’s not like the movies. I mean, in movies, you never see anybody put on a condom.
Guy: They should have a movie called Aftereffects.
Guy: They should show them having sex, all the great things, and then a month later doing a test and finding out they’re HIV positive, or they have some other disease, or that they’re pregnant. They don’t show that in the movies. They only show the great parts.
Guy: Yeah, three minutes of fun and then a lifetime of agony.
Guy: Yeah, then they cut to the end and everyone lives happily ever after. That’s the Hollywoodized version.
Guy: Doesn’t always happen like that.
I think a movie that has stated the after effects of sex and stuff is ‘Kids.’ It shows like how, you know, people have sex and, ‘Come on, I love you,’ and stuff like that. And then afterwards, the girl goes and gets tested her first time after having sex and she’s like got AIDS and she doesn’t know what to do.
Teri: I’ve had more than two partners. And, even though I trust them, you never know because they’ve probably had sex with other people, too. And like that person slept with that person, who slept with that person, who used to you’re sleeping with now. It just—everybody’s connected and, if one person gets something, and you come in contact with that person, then you’re at risk. And that’s what’s scary.
Jennifer: I’ve slept with three people. We didn’t really discuss, you know, who they’d been with and who I’d been with and so I don’t know. As safe as you are, there’s always that chance that something could go wrong.
Teri: We decided to get tested because we all had a girls night one night when we were just all talking about sex and who we’d had sex with and then one of us brought it up that we should get tested together.
Jennifer: Yeah, we’ve actually had a couple of guy friends who’ve had STDs.
Teri: Gonorrhea and syphilis.
Ebony: Jennifer?
Okay, Jen, my name is Ebony. Now, your reason for your visit today?
Jennifer: I just thought it would be a good idea to get tested.
Ebony: Have you had a sexually transmitted disease before?
Jennifer: No.
Ebony: No? Now, what I’m going to do is I’m going to get this test ready. Okay? Are there any more concerns that you have about anything or things that you may think of that you might want to ask?
Jennifer: Can you detect all the STDs from the blood test?
Ebony: No, we take cultures from the vaginal wall and that’s how we discover if you the bacterial infections, such as the chlamydia and the gonorrhea and the trichomonias.
Jennifer: Is oral sex a reason that you should come in and get tested?
Ebony: Yes, oral sex can transmit herpes to the mouth or to the vaginal area. The reason why is because there are bodily secretions in the vaginal area as well as secretions that’s also ejaculated from the male before the sex. Those are body fluids that can cause you to get the virus.
Jennifer: Can you get STDs, some STDs, even with a condom?
Ebony: There are some STDs you can catch if you use a condom. Those STDs are genital herpes, and genital warts.
Okay, now basically you’re just going to feel this little stick. Okay?
Guy: My regret for having sex the first time didn’t come until I was older. The day after I had sex I was just like, ‘Wow! I just had sex.’ And I was one of the happiest people you can ever meet. But the older I got, I realized like, ‘Wow!’ I barely even knew the girl. I barely had a relationship with her and when you realize about all the STDs that you could get. If I could have had a child with her, it would have changed my life drastically.
Ebony: There you go. I want you to apply pressure right there really hard. Okay?
Jennifer: Okay.
Ebony: It’s going to take about two weeks to get the results back.
Jennifer: Okay.
Guy: It’s the worst feeling if you were to find out that you hit off with some STD or AIDS and you’re just sitting there like, ‘That wasn’t even worth it.’
Guy: The consequences of sex is very, very scary. I mean, they could obviously lead to STDs, but in my case it was an almost pregnant girlfriend. She took a test that came out positive and you know that was a big scare for me and for that whole month I just did not know what to do. I was sixteen. It turned out she wasn’t pregnant. You know, that just blew my mind away for that whole month. I just did not know where my life was going.
Teri: Yeah, I’m nervous to get the results and not that I think I’d have anything, or think I’m at risk, because I have been tested before. But since my now boyfriend, I haven’t been tested. I trust him but, like I said, you can’t be too sure.
Nothing will be mailed to my house, or there’ll no phone calls to my parents or anything about this test.
Ebony: No, this test is totally confidential. Okay? So you won’t have to worry about any phone calls or any mail being sent to you.
Danna: The first time I had sex I was thirteen. Emotionally, I wasn’t in the right place to be having sex.
Guy: People often focus on the physical consequences on sex, but there is a lot of emotional consequences.
Danna: Sex alienated me from my friends a great deal because lots of people didn’t want to—you know, they said I gave them a bad reputation if I hang out with them. I’d been called a slut for a while, just for my reputation. There was a point in my life when I couldn’t walk down the halls in school without being called names. It’s been really hard to even get back, you know, a little bit of self esteem and feel better about myself, to feel better about how I act with boys, to get rid of the reputation I had.
Jessica: I think it was a double standard, because if guys were getting enough, they were the man. They were the Mack [?]. They were like, yes, you know, you got it going on. If a female was having sex with various partners or whatever, she was automatically, you know, labeled a slut.
Danna: I thought the guys would see me differently if I were to have sex with them. I thought they would like me more. And it wasn’t the sex so much, it was just, you know, the holding and like the feeling, you know, of like being held.
I think the sense of safety and security I had was very unreal. It was all basically in my mind because, you know, within the next fifteen minutes, within the next hour, by the next morning, those guys were gone. Half of the time, I wouldn’t talk to them or they wouldn’t talk to me.
Guy: It’s just difficult, once you have sex sometimes, to feel comfortable, in a sense, with that person.
Guy: If you don’t know that person really well, the next day you’re just going to want to be like away from that person. That’s the way I feel. Like I just, like all right, bye,’ you know, ‘I don’t want to see you.’
Guy: It’s not like: I know you for a week, I think it’s time we get it on and that’s going to make us stronger. That’s a total misconception.
Girl: I agree. I really think that everything changes after you have sex with somebody.
Guy: After you have sex, I just had this whole different outlook on this person.
Guy: It was more like they had something--I’ve given them part of myself and it was—it was just weird and it totally destroyed our relationship.
Guy: You have to explore [?] the other person and you know afterwards, you got negative feelings about things, negative emotions, and it could ruin the relationship.
Guy: Because if it’s someone that you’ve know for a while but it’s still isn’t ready, that ruins everything cause you want it to be perfect for that person and now it’s that awkward silence and that awkward pause that just won’t end. Your relationship won’t be the same.
Jessica: That’s a big responsibility and there’s a lot of stuff that you got to think about and unfortunately we don’t think about these things cause, you know, people do get caught up in the heat of the moment unfortunately sometimes.
Kate: I think you can fool around, yeah. You just have to know when you’re going to stop and you do that beforehand. I mean, that’s kind of something you have to talk about with each other. And that can be hard talk for a couple, I think.
Jeff: I mean, there’s always a temptation with us as far as the sex.
Kate: I think we have gotten too close. And then afterwards we felt like we needed to back up a little bit. But you only feel that way afterwards. I mean, during it, you don’t. Nt at all. It’s afterwards that you’re just like, ‘Hold on.’
Guy: If you wait till the heat of the moment, it becomes more difficult for you to be able to stop yourself, or you to be able to control yourself. It’s better if you do establish that you don’t want to have sex when you’re more calm, when you’re outside having fun enjoying yourself instead, you know, the heat of the moment, cause you’re going to be like, ‘Okay, this is the moment and it’s going to happen someday, so I’m just going to let it happen.’
Guy: The wrong time to do it is when you’re both in bed half naked and somebody just makes the wrong move and then you’re just like, ‘No, I’m not ready.’ That’s just like a total…downer.
Guy: Your hormones are building up and, if the other person doesn’t tell you like in the beginning, it could cause problems.
Jessica: If there’s a lot of mixed messages or mixed signals in the relationship, that could cause a big problem because like the guy or the female could be like, ‘Well, I thought you were doing this because you wanted to get some of that,’ or the guy might think that he’s just going to spend all this money because he’s going to get some action. Or, the female might think that she could be doing all these things for her guy because she thinks she might going to get some action. And that could maybe lead for the breakup of the relationship.
Girl: I think a girl often has to be like firm when she says it, because I know girls that would probably be like, ‘Oh, stop,’ in kind of like a flirty. They kind of give like mixed signals to guys.
Guy: If the girl stated to a guy, you know, ‘In due time,’ or something, or ‘Let’s see what happens,’ you know, I think that a guy kind of hopes for it.
Girl: Now if a guy asks me to have sex and I wasn’t ready, I’d tell him to back off, ‘Just leave me alone. I’m not ready.’
Girl: He’d wait for you, if he really loved you. If he didn’t love you, then it’s crap.
Girl: I honestly don’t think I’d get in a situation like that where I’d be close to having sex or anything but, if I did, I’d be like, ‘Get off me.’
Guy: What’d you say?
Girl: Get off of me. Get away from me.
Guy in gorilla costume: If I didn’t want to have sex, and I wanted to say no, this is how I’d do it I think. [makes gorilla noises]
Girl: Girls should try like not to get into situations where you have to say stop like at the last minute, because like obviously that’s not a ____________, but I think if it does come down to that, you really have to be firm when you say it.
Guy: Or just kick him if you have to.
Guy: That’s stop him.
Guy: That’ll definitely stop him.
Girl: Well, that’ll probably stop him forever.
Guy: As a last resort.
Francisco: If you’re not sure about having sex with your partner, you know, make sure that you don’t go into a party and start taking drugs or drinking alcohol, you know. Your mind is not going to be in a stable position if you go ahead and do that.
Guy: You can usually tell when you’re drunk or high or whatever. It’s not necessarily a bad policy to say, ‘Okay, I’m drunk.’ Or, you know, ‘I’m a little high. I’m not going to have sex, ’ you know, just period. Even if it’s with someone that you knew that you wanted to when you were sober.
Francisco: Your mind’s not going to be functioning properly so you’re not going to be firm to your decisions. You know, you’re not going to be able to say, ‘No, stop,’ or ‘I’m not ready for this,’ you know?
Dana: Drugs and alcohol were an influence on my willingness to have sex earlier, cause, you know, your ability’s impaired, your mind’s impaired and your decisions are impaired. And all these guys thought they could take advantage of me and have their way with me when I was drinking and when I was drunk.
Guy: I think a lot of situations, you know, kids wouldn’t have sex unless they were sort of, you know, wasted. I think about it—they’re not thinking right and they sort of rely on feelings.
Guy: They use it as an excuse. ‘Oh, I was really drunk and that’s why this happened.’
Guy: So I think certain people, certain guys, might use it as a method to get in certain girl’s beds.
Guy: Oh, yeah, when they’re still too drunk and then they take advantage of her.
Guy: Yeah, and just take advantage of her.
Guy: It’s like, okay, I’m in a party. I want to have sex with this girl. Let me get her drunk and let me like slip Ecstasy in her drink and then I can have sex with her. And that’s really sad that people will have to go to that level, take it to that level and poison someone’s body in order to satisfy their own physical needs.
Max: A lot of people, maybe even your friends, think that a party without drugs and alcohol isn’t a party at all.
Melissa: What’s the fun in doing something that you might regret later?
Max: Exactly. The fact is that when drugs and alcohol are involved, you’re not thinking clearly and neither are the people around you. So when it comes to something as important as sex, you need to be able to stop and think about what you’re doing.
Guy: If a girl asked me, if she wanted to have sex, I think that I’d have to seriously think about it. I wouldn’t be like, ‘Yes.’ It would probably be tempting but I’d have to think about it. I don’t think enough people our age or enough adults understand the consequences of their actions.
Jennifer: I’m clear. I don’t have anything. I’m totally okay. Very relieved and happy. Teri, hi, are you okay? Okay. We’re both okay. All right. Teri’s happy. Okay. Do you feel relieved now? Good. Good. Yeah, me, too. I’m really, really happy we did this. Thank you so much for going with me.
Teri: I just got my results back and it was completely negative. I have no STDs or anything like that.
Truthfully, I wasn’t that scared that I had it, HIV, but since STDs are a lot more common, I just wanted to be reassured that I didn’t have any of those because those are more of an every day issue.
I was the first one of all my friends to have sex and they would talk to me about it and I would just mainly tell them to wait, just wait, wait, wait.
Kate: I think it’s important for everyone to know that all people aren’t having sex and that if they decide not too, they’re okay. That doesn’t mean they’re uncool or that you can’t have a great relationship with somebody.
I think your relationship can still be exciting by like kissing somebody or just going out. That stuff can be even more special even than having sex.
Guy: There are other ways I can show you that I love you without having any physical relations. I mean, there’s flowers, cards. I mean, there—you know, there’s a whole section in Hallmark for that.
Guy: If you base your relationship on sex, it’s generally not going to last. You got to base your relationship on talking and communication and feeling and having, you know, a really good friendship before you get into the whole sex thing.
Guy: It can get boring.
Guy: Definitely, it can get boring.
Guy: Because what happens after sex? You know, you go to sleep. You know, you got to have something to talk about.
Guy: The best part about being in a relationship is imagining growing old and sitting in a rocking chair and cackling about like, you know, fifty years ago.
Guy: Experiences, not, ‘Oh, remember when we were in bed together?’
Danna: I don’t think that you have to have sex to be in a real true committed relationship. When I date a guy now, I would definitely not have sex with him right away. I need to have a little trust. I need to, you know, maintain a close friendship. I use my common sense now and I use the stuff that hurt me in the past to teach me how to get by now.
Jessica: Like I said, it’s real personal choices. It’s your option and you shouldn’t even listen to people who, you know, tease you or pressure you because, at the end, you ‘re the one who’s going to suffer the consequences, not them.
Guy: If somebody thinks they’re at the point in the relationship when they’re ready to have sex, they should voice that and, at the same time, if somebody, you know, feels that they’re not ready, they should say, ‘You know what? I’m not ready.’
Skit member: Francisco, look, I was thinking about what you told me and, you know, baby, we could still be together, but I’m just not ready to have sex. So now it’s up to you, boo.
Jessica: With abstinence, you’re not at risk of having an HIV, STI, becoming pregnant.
Francisco: You know, if you believe you’re not ready to have sex, then stick with that, you know. Not everybody is doing it, and that’s a fact.
Max: He’s right. You know, people have actually done studies on this and what they’ve found is that the majority of people under seventeen aren’t having sex.
Melissa: So cutting through what’s true and what isn’t can be rough. So the question is: who can you talk to about sex?
Girl: We first learned about sex from a friend.
Guy: Probably at school from friends or something.
Guy: A book
Guy in gorilla suit: I learned about sex from just monkeying around.
Girl: Most of it probably friends. My mom really didn’t like to cover the subject at all.
Girl: I have an older brother so like when he had friends over, like he’ll talk about things and I’m like, ‘What are you talking about? That’s so gross.’
Guy: I learned sex mostly from peers.
Guy: From the kids in school mostly, I guess.
Girl: I first learned about sex from my friends in school.
Girl: My friends.
Girl: My friends.
Guy: My friends.
Girl: My friends.
Jessica: Most of the time most of the information that your friends give you is not correct.
Girl: My friends would tell me: if you touch a guy you get pregnant.
Guy: You can’t get pregnant if you smoke marijuana before you have sex.
Girl: During your period, if you have sex, you’re not supposed to get pregnant.
Guy: It’s almost very dangerous to learn sex like from your own peers cause they might not know like the whole thing. Maybe you know more than him and he’s telling you like different stories about STDs and like you can just wash it away with a bar of soap.
Girl: I learned about sex from my parents.
Girl: I learned about sex from my mom.
Guy: I learned from my parents.
Guy: I asked my dad when I was a little older. I was just wondering. He didn’t say anything. I think he was probably afraid to say anything. He was probably so uncomfortable.
Guy: I think I was a little too uncomfortable to just straight up go to my grandparents and my parents and be like, ‘Listen, I want all the information there is on sex. Tell me what you guys know or what I should do.’ It’s just not comfortable. I’d much rather go to like a close friend of mine and be, ‘This is what’s up.’
Francisco: If you’re talking to your parent and you’re uncomfortable about speaking about, you know, sex, you should go up to parent and be like, ‘Look, a friend in school is going through this,’ or ‘I seen in a novel, I mean, a soap opera on TV or in a movie and TV that this happened to a teenager. Mom, what should I do if this really happened to me? What if I was going through that situation, what would you do? What can I do?’ You know? And that will start a conversation.
Guy: I never approached them for any questions about sex. I would usually talk to my brothers. But I remember one time, I was talking to my brother and my father walked in on the conversation and we just started talking and it was like—I didn’t even look at him as my father telling me about sex. It was just somebody who’s been experienced in it telling me about it. So that’s how me and my father started talking about sex.
Francisco: There’s a lot of help out there. You just have to go out and do it. Help is not going to come to you. You got to go for it.
Max: that’s all for today. But remember it’s important that you find someone you can trust to talk to you about sex. That can be a parent, a relative, a teacher, a guidance counselor.
Melissa: Or even an older brother or sister.
Max: Now, if you have questions about STDs or HIV, you can call the Center for Disease Control’s toll free hotline. That number is 1-800-227-8922, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Melissa: You can also check out our website at pbs.org to see video clips from this show and other IN THE MIX shows.
Max: You can also hear what these teens and other teens had to say about sex and relationships. Plus you’ll find resources, show schedules, guides and how to get a copy.
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Max: You can also drop us a line: In The Mix, 114 East 32nd Street, New York, New York, 10016.
Max and Melissa: Bye.
[over end credits]
Guy: Horizontal mambo, the bone dance, Rumpleforeskin, the baloney bop.
Girl: I’ve never heard any of these.
Guy: The hot dog in the bun. Taking ol’ one-eyed to the optometrist.
Girl: Where do you guys live?
Guy: Hooking up. Going all the way. Getting some.
Guy: Bagging the chicks.
Girl: Right, whatever. I’ve never heard any of those.
Girl: I know.