Meaning of petting party | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of sex party in 1920s flapper culture.

US, historical

Examples

“On the Triangle trip Amory had come into constant contact with that great current American phenomenon, the “petting party.” None of the Victorian mothers—and most of the mothers were Victorian—had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to be kissed.”

“This last is a little private mission of Mrs. Du Puy and she is making a nationwide appeal for justice for the young thing who wears not much of anything in the way of clothes, paints her cheeks, powders her nose and plays her share in petting parties.”

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