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]気になりません。。。about the word cruising?なぜ　"girl hunt" になった、what's the story behind it ですかね
aQasim さん、　how did the source came up with the term used かな？

2008.12.04| URL| Ivy #- [編集]

girl hunt

日本語の　girl hunt は街中をさまよいながら、いわゆるナンパすることです。
同じような遊びがアメリカなどにもあり、それについて２つの辞書が言語として認識していますね。

Informal. to go about on the streets or in public areas in search of a sexual partner.
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary,

Slang To look for a sexual partner, as in a public place.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

英辞郎では次のように説明しています。
cruising: 〔セックスが目的の〕男［女］あさり◆ゲイに対して使われることが多い。

Wikipedia によるとゲイの隠語…他の人に悟られない仲間内の言葉らしいですね。
In a specifically sexual context, the term "cruising" originally emerged as an argot "code word" in gay slang, by which those "in the know" would understand the speaker's unstated sexual intent, whereas most heterosexuals, on hearing the same word in the same context, would normally misread the speaker's intended meaning in the word's more common (and presumably less threatening) nonsexual sense. This served (and in some contexts, still serves) as a protective sociolinguistic mechanism for gay men to recognize not only each other, but those who may wish to do them harm in broader societies noted for their homophobia.

In the latter half of the twentieth century, decriminalization of homosexual behaviour increasingly became the norm in English-speaking countries. The protective barrier once provided by the term "cruising" as a "code word" has therefore largely broken down, and arguably, become increasingly irrelevant. Thus the specifically sexual meaning of the term has passed into common usage to include the sexual behavior of heterosexual persons, as well.

2008.12.05| URL| aQsim #TsHMplNc [編集]