I just always found horny a little juvenile. Locker-room talk for the middle-school set. But things have changed. Often, the word is used as a cheeky, playful expression of more PG forms of desire or admiration. Benoit likens this usage of the term to older, but similarly hyperbolic slang. That is not to say, however, that the word is divorced from its sexier origins entirely — if at all.

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