'The Bases'

Can someone explain "The Bases" to me. I have friends who are too embarassed to say "i gave him head" or whatever, and instead use bases...not much use when i don't know what they are.

Please help so i can communicate with them!

Reply 1

queenselphie

haha, me and my flatmate use bases too!
I dont know what the official ones are, but we say:
1st base: touching through clothes, kissing
2nd base: touching under clothes/without clothes
3rd base: oral stuff
home run: going all the way

Im not sure what the approved version is tho! :p:

Reply 2

Sam_B

14

probably right

"bases" are too american for me.

Reply 3

SamTheMan

17

queenselphie

haha, me and my flatmate use bases too!
I dont know what the official ones are, but we say:
1st base: touching through clothes, kissing
2nd base: touching under clothes/without clothes
3rd base: oral stuff
home run: going all the way

Im not sure what the approved version is tho! :p:

bohogirlie has been watching too many crap American teen movies?

3rd base is sometimes the manual stuff but that's correct. Some people use a less official base system that goes on to 5th and 6th... I think you can imagine what they are...

Anyway as Sam_B said, bases are just an American concept useful for them, because "virginity" is so important. Even if you give head to the whole school, if you're a virgin, you're pure and can be married.

Reply 4

RetiredAccount89

18

SamTheMan

bohogirlie has been watching too many crap American teen movies?

3rd base is sometimes the manual stuff but that's correct. Some people use a less official base system that goes on to 5th and 6th... I think you can imagine what they are...

Anyway as Sam_B said, bases are just an American concept useful for them, because "virginity" is so important. Even if you give head to the whole school, if you're a virgin, you're pure and can be married.

See i always argued with people as to base 2. to me it's heavy petting - maybe touchy feely over the jumper/hand under jumper. Some fo my friends (girls!) say 2 is a hand job.
very odd
I would go with
1) pulling
2) clothed/partial clothed gropage
3) handjob/fingers...or oral sex
4/Home Run - All the way.

Reply 5

Johnny 5

12

Anyone wanna play baseball?

Reply 6

Sooz

1

Of course baseball is just perverted cricket, which only has two bases

Reply 7

Vixen

12

2 5 +

Anyone wanna play baseball?

Pass me the bat :eek:

Reply 8

Helenia

20

Have to say my friends and I are kind of past the "so how far did you get?" stage, regardless of whether they're actually sleeping with their partners, it's just sort of their business. Though obviously in the early stages you still get the "Did you stay over? *nudge nudge wink wink*" but not in detail.

Edit: that or they think I'm a freaky medic so would get all technical on them :eek:

Reply 9

Mad Vlad

19

How enlightening... it really frustrated me when some of my friends were going on about it... i didn't have the courage to ask them to explain :redface:

Reply 10

RetiredAccount89

18

Helenia

Have to say my friends and I are kind of past the "so how far did you get?" stage, regardless of whether they're actually sleeping with their partners, it's just sort of their business. Though obviously in the early stages you still get the "Did you stay over? *nudge nudge wink wink*" but not in detail.

Edit: that or they think I'm a freaky medic so would get all technical on them :eek:

i always hated the phrase 'did you sleep with her' because more than once i have pulled etc and SLEPT with someone, but not actually had sex.
hence dont like that phrase...

and yeh, i think basically once you hit year 2 of uni you kind of get past the base thing and work on the assumption people shag after no time at all.

At least the seem to be in corpus at the mo. dunno what they've put in the water but its like an orgy there

Reply 11

SamTheMan

17

foolfarian

See i always argued with people as to base 2. to me it's heavy petting - maybe touchy feely over the jumper/hand under jumper. Some fo my friends (girls!) say 2 is a hand job.
very odd
I would go with
1) pulling
2) clothed/partial clothed gropage
3) handjob/fingers...or oral sex
4/Home Run - All the way.

Base 2 definitely is not a hand job. Some people seem to invent stuff.

I just found out what sloppy seconds was though! I didn't know that. I always thought "sloppy seconds" was pulling a girl your friend had already been with. Interesting stuff though.
http://www.sxetc.org/index.php?topic=Glossary&content_id=1982

http://www.lovedungeon.net/humor/misc/bases.html

Reply 12

silence

16

so what about those playing for the other team?

Reply 13

Chardonnay

SamTheMan

Base 2 definitely is not a hand job. Some people seem to invent stuff.

Oh well

That's what I always knew it as!
And that sloppy seconds thig is weird too. Crazy Americans!

Reply 14

RetiredAccount89

18

SamTheMan

Base 2 definitely is not a hand job. Some people seem to invent stuff.

I just found out what sloppy seconds was though! I didn't know that. I always thought "sloppy seconds" was pulling a girl your friend had already been with. Interesting stuff though.
http://www.sxetc.org/index.php?topic=Glossary&content_id=1982

http://www.lovedungeon.net/humor/misc/bases.html

ummmm, not quite!

Have you not seen the office episode in series 2 with the sloppy seconds comment?
(though i knew what it was from about the age of 14 lol)

Reply 15

Helenia

20

SamTheMan

Base 2 definitely is not a hand job. Some people seem to invent stuff.

I just found out what sloppy seconds was though! I didn't know that. I always thought "sloppy seconds" was pulling a girl your friend had already been with. Interesting stuff though.
http://www.sxetc.org/index.php?topic=Glossary&content_id=1982

http://www.lovedungeon.net/humor/misc/bases.html

Wow, maturity central on those websites!

I always thought of 2nd as mutual masturbation but I could be wrong, it wasn't a system that was widely used in my school. I also thought that sloppy seconds was going out with/sleeping with someone who'd been with one of your friends before. Guess I'm wrong according to the baseball-playing-too-immature-too-actually-talk-about-sex website :rolleyes:

foolfarian

i always hated the phrase 'did you sleep with her' because more than once i have pulled etc and SLEPT with someone, but not actually had sex.
hence dont like that phrase...

Yeah, it does leave room for interpretation, though at the moment the in question is "Did you/he stay over?" which leaves you even more doubt! Though and acceptable answer is "Yes, but not like that," and also variations in definition of Walk of Shame come in handy.

and yeh, i think basically once you hit year 2 of uni you kind of get past the base thing and work on the assumption people shag after no time at all.

At least the seem to be in corpus at the mo. dunno what they've put in the water but its like an orgy there

Well, either they assume it's happening, or we're just not bothered whether they are or not as it's no big deal (everyone is anyway, duh!)

I think there's something in the water around my staircase too - only 2/11 people are now single, having started the term with 7 of us single! Everyone is coupling up - I was quite late in the game; everyone else got it on around Valentine's day, which was fun :rolleyes:

I dunno what they're feeding us!

Reply 16

RetiredAccount89

18

Helenia

Wow, maturity central on those websites!

I always thought of 2nd as mutual masturbation but I could be wrong, it wasn't a system that was widely used in my school. I also thought that sloppy seconds was going out with/sleeping with someone who'd been with one of your friends before. Guess I'm wrong according to the baseball-playing-too-immature-too-actually-talk-about-sex website :rolleyes:

Yeah, it does leave room for interpretation, though at the moment the in question is "Did you/he stay over?" which leaves you even more doubt! Though and acceptable answer is "Yes, but not like that," and also variations in definition of Walk of Shame come in handy.

Well, either they assume it's happening, or we're just not bothered whether they are or not as it's no big deal (everyone is anyway, duh!)

I think there's something in the water around my staircase too - only 2/11 people are now single, having started the term with 7 of us single! Everyone is coupling up - I was quite late in the game; everyone else got it on around Valentine's day, which was fun :rolleyes:

I dunno what they're feeding us!

the two definiions of walk of shame as i know them are
a) walking back into college in the clothes you were waring last night
b) walking out of a the wrong staircase (perhaps even wrong college) when the fire alarm goes off in the wee hours.

Reply 17

Feefifofum

16

foolfarian

the two definiions of walk of shame as i know them are
a) walking back into college in the clothes you were waring last night
b) walking out of a the wrong staircase (perhaps even wrong college) when the fire alarm goes off in the wee hours.

My music teacher (who went to Keble Ox) told me that every few years they would do a fire drill at 1am on the morning after Valentine's Day to see where people emerged from! Cruel but funny!

Reply 18

Helenia

20

foolfarian

the two definiions of walk of shame as i know them are
a) walking back into college in the clothes you were waring last night
b) walking out of a the wrong staircase (perhaps even wrong college) when the fire alarm goes off in the wee hours.

Well, we've been having endless debates about this (we're sad, I know). General consensus is that it's returning from someone's room in the night/early morning, but then questions arise such as whether it counts as a walk of shame if you didn't have sex, how long you have to stay there for it to be a walk of shame etc. When I was seeing someone on my staircase, he had the shortest walk of shame ever! :biggrin:

You also have the extended spectrum of activities of shame - the lecture of shame, the cycle of shame, on one legendary occasion (not myself) the swim of shame and of course, the early rowing outing of shame :redface:

- even funnier if you see the other person out on their outing of shame!