Yeah, the "sexual reference," regardless of phrase origins, will be made by those of a mind to make it -- and this seems especially to include those on the lookout for verbal wrongdoing.    So in the recording of a long past West Virginia court case, the defendant was said to have "roostered his gun" -- and an ardent feminist informed me a while back that I shouldn't say "cocky virgin" because the adjective refers to an anatomical feature that women don't possess! (She thought that maybe I didn't know.) On the American farm, of course, "roosters" have long replaced "cocks," and apparently "cock" has even been edited out of the cockfighting scene.   At least in West Virginia. "Are those fighting cocks?" I asked the man who appeared to own the birds I inadvertantly bumped into on a "bird walk" with my daughter -- "oh yes," he said and promptly invited me to a "friendly chicken fight" that Sunday.....    Is this starting another thread?