How did the term "coed" come to be associated with porn? And why does such a term continue to be used, when it really makes no sense?

I have honestly never seen that? Without sounding like a drip, I don’t really watch that much porn though.

I’d ask for an example, but being a moderator I’d probably have to remove it.

Send the example to RH, via PM, on the QT, ASAP, OK?

TLY! Yeah do, I’ll put together a screenshot with jellyfish covering the unsuitable parts.

Whoops. I just realized that I typed “shorted” on my question. It’s too late to edit. I meant “shortened.”

@richardhenry: Sent. Whatcha think?

The term ‘coed’ was used as slang to describe any woman who was a student on a predominantly male campus. This began in the 50s and 60s when more and more women were going to college. You can still find many schools that use this term. For example, at my alma mater (Northern Illinois University), there is a bench under a tree in the shape of a heart. It is said that every true ‘coed’ of the university must be kissed under this tree. Meaning, every woman at the university. Now, it isn’t used so much any more, but I would imaging that is where the porn industry gets it. Maybe there is something kinky about being a woman surrounded by men? I dunno.

@Les: Interesting. Thanks for the input. So it seems like a pretty outdated term, and such sections on porn websites, probably are most appealing to the older generation of men who identify with that term?

@girl: Maybe, but I think it is probably used more as a slang term in this context as well. From the examples you gave, it almost has a derogatory connotation. Almost like they don’t want to say ‘woman’ or ‘girl’ because that would be too humanizing. To call her a ‘coed’, you get the idea that she is a woman, but I take it as being more of an objectification.

But then again, that may just be my feelings of the porn industry.

Maybe it comes from the term “code”. As it’s erotic to think of Navajo Codebreakers. In that distinction, do the videos in question have women dressed as Native Americans, or any sort of garb relating to typewriters and WWII-era espionage? If so, did it appear more to be a coincidence, or more of a commonality?

@GoS: How’s about floating that sample my way…..: }

They use the word “coed” to signify that the women in the porn video are young women (but legal) and educated. The word is no more “associated” with porn as is the word “Asian” in “Hot Asian women”. It is simply a descriptive word.

I have a litle gap about porno therms.Witch means that I pass this one.I would say yust that it mean from the feeling side <she is on the fucking mode>

@pathfinder: What?!

girls you seem to have a very wide range of porn knowledge. It is my understanding that any group of young women has a genre in porn-nurses, secretaries, teachers, flight attendants etc.

@girlofscience
This used to be such a widely used word, but now I get the feeling that it’s rarely used outside the porn industry to describe college-aged women. There’s a lot about the porn industry that’s way out of date.

As it relates to porn I believe such seemily dated terms like “coed” (another example is “ebony”) is used specifically in the porn industry for two primary reasons.

#1 Because the term is almost not used except for in association with porn, it allows someone searching for porn to use a search term that would more likely produce a porn specific result. (For example compare the search results for “cute college girl” vs “cute coed”)

#2 For a similar reason it also allows seemily benign search terms which result in porn to be used instead more descriptive alternatives that may be actively filtered or bring on more attention.
Compare the following searches for example.

1. Cute black girl
2. Sexy black girl
3. Sex black girl
4. Cute ebony girl

While one may think that #1&#4 would give similar benign results. #4 actually gives NSFW results just like #3. Interesting enough #2 gives mostly SFW results but would mostly be term blocked due to “sexy” vs “cute”.