Beyond Baby It's Cold Outside
InThinking is publishing this page at a time (December 2018) when Frank Loesser's 1944 song, Baby It's Cold Outside, is in the midst of some controversy. In short, the song has been banned (and subsequently reinstated in some instances) by a number of radio stations. The contention made is that the song's lyrics are about date-rape. We take some risk, perhaps, in publishing this page now in that the story may 'move...