Wenching

The grumpy editorial assistant I work with attends renaissance fairs, or “ren fairs,” as she calls them. After I’d asked whether she costumes herself as a wench at such events, she told me no, but added there’s a practice there called wenching for which a gaggle of ladies costumed in the hottest Middle Ages couture circle some dude and kiss him until he blushes, like a G-rated gang-bang. And I had wondered why nerds were such big fans of renaissance fairs. I’d look up “wenching” via Google in order to supply you with linkage, but there are some things I just don’t want to know more about, and wenching is one of those things.