[NSFW] Does the term 'hooking up' necessarily imply sex?

Look at the year, that used to mean simply meeting someone or someones for something.

It often implies intercourse, but it could just be making out or some other form of intimacy. From the additional context of the article, I would assume she didn’t have intercourse. It’s unclear what other intimate acts she engaged in.

It can also mean “give you an introduction .

For example: “If you need your car fixed I can hook you up with my brother. He has a nice shop on Main street.”
or
“If you are looking for some weed I can hook you up with my brother. He has a nice shop on the corner of Main street.”

In these times, it appears so. (Generally speaking.)

No. It’s a long-used term for meeting someone. This is just another good term that has been hijacked. I continue to use words for their real meanings.

Hooking up or hooked up to me means sex in the right context.

Hook you up, is to create a meeting or introduction.

When did it start sometimes meaning sex? The first time I noticed it being used that way, was some time in the mid-1990s.

It still does NOT always mean sex, but that meaning has been so common, that it’s now unfortunately difficult to avoid that association when using that expression.

My son educated me on the current usage when he was in college 20 years ago. As has been said above, it now generally is taken to mean casual sex, not necessarily including intercourse.

Yes indeed it does.

The meaning of that expression changed while I wasn’t looking. I embarrassed some of my son’s law school friends by using it in an innocent question. One of them took me aside and kindly explained what it means now (or rather, what it meant then; this was 14 years ago).

Where I’m from it does.

Depends on the context of the conversation. My daughter is looking for a job post college and I have friends in the field. I’ve said to her, “I’ll hook you up with my friend who can give you advice.” It certainly does not mean sex in that context.

It can imply several things – including non-sexual social/business contacts & meetings.

Context is everything.

As far as what “Filsan” was talking about in a 2017 interview on Canadian girlfeels, who knows? But evidently she was yakking about some oral adventure, and like a very peculiar subset of the US population doesn’t consider that to be “real sex”. So in her thinking being a blowjob diva preserves her precious virginity.

Welcome to the english language. Your results may vary.

I think your confusion lies not with the term “hook up” but with the use of the term “sex.” Sex can be a whole range of behaviors that don’t necessarily imply intercourse.

As for the term hook up, younger people mainly mean a casual sexual encounter of some kind while mainly older people use it in various contexts such as “I hooked up with my friends at Langosta Lounge” last night. And as others have said, if you suggest you’l hook someone up with someone else for a specific purpose, sex is not implied. The noun “a hook up” is most often sexual in meaning though.

When you use “hook up” That usually means that you are introducing a person to someone.

Usually, yes.

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It’s not about a Ball and Hitch with their car.
Well, it kind of is.
Minus the car.