Making out

[11] This was typical on college campuses, where young people "spent a great deal of unsupervised time in mixed company",[12][13][14] and theaters.

[15] In the 1950s, Life magazine depicted petting parties as "that famed and shocking institution of the '20s", and commenting on the Kinsey Report, said that they have been "very much with us ever since".

[17] The Continental[citation needed] zeitgeist is illustrated by a letter that Sigmund Freud wrote to Sándor Ferenczi in 1931, playfully admonishing him to stop kissing his patients; Freud warned him lest "a number of independent thinkers in matters of technique will say to themselves: Why stop at a kiss?

[18] In the years following World War I,[19] necking and petting became accepted behavior in mainstream American culture as long as the partners were dating.

[22] It covers a wide range of sexual behavior,[23] and means different things to different age groups in different parts of the United States.