Citations:dormcest

Noun: "romantic and/or sexual involvement between students residing in the same dormitory"

 * 1994 — Nora Zamichow, "Anxiety 101 : Welcome to dorm life in 1994", Los Angeles Times, 14 October 1994:
 * Romantic interests? No way. He advises against "dormcest" — involvements with women on his hall.
 * 1999 — Kay S. Hymowitz, Ready or Not: Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future -- and Ours, Free Press (1999), ISBN 9780684836249, page 186:
 * Undergrads are warned by residence advisors not to get involved with dormmates; to do so is sometimes called "dormcest."
 * 2001 — Anne Rochell Konigsmark, "Stanford TV show acts as matchmaker", San Jose Mercury News, 10 March 2001:
 * Because Stanford students are shy about approaching strangers, most romances occur in the residence halls, students said. There's even a word for it: dormcest.
 * 2002 — Roxy Sass, "Roxy faces her dirty past", The Stanford Daily, 15 November 2002:
 * Or maybe you fell prey to the demon of dormcest and came to your senses only after the "dorm couple" label stuck.
 * 2004 — Dov Fox, The Truth About Harvard: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Admissions and Life on Campus, Princeton Review Publishing (2004), ISBN 0375764356, page 156:
 * Symptomatic of the "hook-up/marriage" phenomenon is the pervasiveness of "dormcest" — brief sexual encounters between students in the same dorm.
 * 2005 — Michael M. Grynbaum, "An Entryway That Eats Together Stays Together", The Harvard Crimson, 9 June 2005:
 * "I remember being shocked that they would sleep in the same bed!" says Eunpi Cho ’05, recalling one notorious incident of dormcest.
 * 2007 — Laura Sessions Stepp, Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both, Riverhead Books (2007), ISBN 9781594489389, pages 202-203:
 * Jill Ringold, a health educator at Washington University in St. Louis, where most dorms are coed on each floor, told me, "There will always be some dormcest [what students call sex between couples living in the same dorm], but eventually they stop seeing each other as potential hookup material. Coed living doesn't encourage more sex."
 * 2010 — Lauren Kunze (with Rina Onur), The Ivy, Greenwillow Books (2010), ISBN 9780061960451, page 52:
 * "According to Alexis Thorndike, dormcest is never a good idea," Vanessa offered.