Citations:dormcest

English citations of dormcest

Noun: "romantic and/or sexual involvement between students residing in the same dormitory"

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• 1994 — Nora Zamichow, "Anxiety 101 : Welcome to dorm life in 1994", Los Angeles Times, 14 October 1994:

  Romantic interests? No way. He advises against "dormcest" — involvements with women on his hall.

• 1999 — Kay S. Hymowitz, Ready or Not: Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future -- and Ours, Free Press (1999), →ISBN, page 186:

  Undergrads are warned by residence advisors not to get involved with dormmates; to do so is sometimes called "dormcest."

• 2001 — Anne Rochell Konigsmark, "Stanford TV show acts as matchmaker", San Jose Mercury News, 10 March 2001:

  Because Stanford students are shy about approaching strangers, most romances occur in the residence halls, students said. There's even a word for it: dormcest.

• 2002 — Roxy Sass, "Roxy faces her dirty past", The Stanford Daily, 15 November 2002:

  Or maybe you fell prey to the demon of dormcest and came to your senses only after the "dorm couple" label stuck.

• 2004 — Dov Fox, The Truth About Harvard: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Admissions and Life on Campus, Princeton Review Publishing (2004), →ISBN, page 156:

  Symptomatic of the "hook-up/marriage" phenomenon is the pervasiveness of "dormcest" — brief sexual encounters between students in the same dorm.

• 2005 — Michael M. Grynbaum, "An Entryway That Eats Together Stays Together", The Harvard Crimson, 9 June 2005:

  "I remember being shocked that they would sleep in the same bed!" says Eunpi Cho ’05, recalling one notorious incident of dormcest.

• 2007 — Laura Sessions Stepp, Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both, Riverhead Books (2007), →ISBN, pages 202-203:

  Jill Ringold, a health educator at Washington University in St. Louis, where most dorms are coed on each floor, told me, "There will always be some dormcest [what students call sex between couples living in the same dorm], but eventually they stop seeing each other as potential hookup material. Coed living doesn't encourage more sex."

• 2010 — Lauren Kunze (with Rina Onur), The Ivy, Greenwillow Books (2010), →ISBN, page 52:

  "According to Alexis Thorndike, dormcest is never a good idea," Vanessa offered.