- Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...> wrote:
>
> > I guess that'd have to be an Americanism then.
>
> After a bit of hunting both hard-copy and on-line
> dictionaries, yes, it
> is. I've tracked it as far back as the early 1990s,
> and it seems to have
> mainly spread as a bit of computing jargon. So us
> hackers use it, and
> presumably you biologists don't - or rather, know
> the Real meaning, so
> keep to that.
I thought it dated back a bit further than that. And
as for usage, I've mostly heard it used in relation to
one's sexual preferences--that is, if you like your
sex without a lot of kink, you like "vanilla sex."
I've seen it used elsewhere, but that's where I
thought it originated from.
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