NYT: People Are Making Out. Everywhere. "Everyone's kind of slightly lowered their standards."
People Are Making Out. Everywhere.
Starved for P.DA., some are taking New York’s reopening as a cue to start “swallowing each other’s faces.”
On a Thursday afternoon in June, just days before the summer solstice, the scene in Hudson River Park looked straight out of a Thomas Cole painting: Bees and butterflies dancing in the air, the water sparkling in the distance, its less attractive parts smoothed out by the midday sun.
Plenty of couples were taking advantage, as if they had seen the tabloid photos of a lip-locked Bennifer as a sign from the universe that being touchy, romantic and happy in public was OK again.
A pair pressed their faces together beneath a tree, turning this way and that way for selfies. A few feet away, two bodies were intertwined on the ground, their heads hidden by a flannel shirt. Two others lay side-by-side, gazing up at the limbs and leaves of a lush tree.
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“Everyone’s kind of slightly lowered their standards, or maybe opened up their idea of what they find attractive,” Ms. Delarosa added. She recently overheard a customer tell a friend: “I’d make out with him. Before the pandemic, probably not.”
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“You have to live your life now,” she said. “People are full-on swallowing each other’s faces on Friday and Saturday nights.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/style/making-out-is-back.html
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