Occupy is a very popular word these days. Why? Well, it might have something to do with the fact that there are currently massive occupy protests happening all over the country. This is happening in Portland, Oregon. It’s also happening in St. Louis, Missouri. Las Vegas is occupying, as are many parts of Florida. Though now, the revolution has become worldwide.

It all started in Zucotti Park in New York in late September 2011 and has grown to a global phenomenon. With an Occupy guide sister site now listed under its own designated tab on the official organization’s Occupy Wall Street website, it’s now easier than ever to occupy your own town. This site provides all of the resources one could ever need.

So with all this talk about the word “occupy”, it might make you wonder what the origins of this word are. Surprisingly, in the 1500s to the 1800s, the now obsolete definition of occupy referred to sexual relations.

According to Dictionary.com, in 1811, defined in the Lexicon Balatronicum, occupy meant to occupy a woman’s body. It was one of the original euphemisms in the natural English language.

Apparently, many words have shunned their past definitions that related directly to sexual interpretations. Occupy is just one in a long line. Talking about sex is both a taboo subject and an endlessly fascinating one. So I suppose it should not come as a surprise that the origin of many of the words that we use today had direct ties to sexual connotation.