Psychology Takeaway Podcast
Rawdogging - From Taboo to Trend: How Words Change Meaning
April 17, 202611 min · 1,359 words
Show notes
We recently heard a term that seemed strange to us, but your generation may hear that word very differently. Some of Jim’s students admitted to rawdogging most of their life experiences. This left the dynamic duo to muse, “If we’re ‘rawdogging life’—without reflection, without tools—what does that do to our well-being?” What would Victor Frankel say? Or Shakespeare or George Orwell?
Highlighted moments
how a term that originally had to do with The non-use of a condom Or non-use of prevention In sexual intercourse Comes to be a term That is now a pretty positive term In the language
“Raw dogging has come to mean Doing something without preparation Or without any assistance from AI Or computer generated stuff Of one kind or another Not looking up something on Google Just going in with your own intellect”
“Lay on your lap Had a very different Connotation And Shakespeare's Viewers Of the play At that time Would have known it”
“We tend to think That There are things That are Permanent And the bottom Line is I think Nothing is Permanent Including our Language”
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