A CBS News journalist managed to break the internet on Wednesday with a quip about the papal conclave going on in the Vatican to pick a new pope.
That’s because Tony Dokoupil’s remark used a vulgar slang term associated with unprotected sex.
During live coverage of the conclave, CBS’s John Allen noted that all the clergy in attendance had their cell phones confiscated and said, “The one thing we know they’re not doing is checking Instagram.”
That led Dokoupil to joke, “I believe the kids call it rawdogging it,” which made all his on-air coworkers break up in laughter, while he attempted to finish the sentence with, “if you’re gonna go through a long period of time with no electronic device.”
Why the laughs?
Well, though Allen is right that “rawdogging” has been used on TikTok to describe giving up in-flight entertainment on a plane or other situations experienced without distraction or protection, that’s a cheeky play on its original slang meaning: having sex without a condom.
