Origin of "getting laid"

[tinwhistler]

Today's NYTimes book review has an etymology of sorts for "getting
laid;" see

http://tinyurl.com/3bq8fr

Books of the Times Sin in the Second City
By JANET MASLIN
Published: July 13, 2007

Karen Abbott's "Sin in the Second City" reports on an early-20th-
century phenomenon: the Everleigh Club, which opened in Chicago in
1900 and lasted 11 years as the self-proclaimed grandest whorehouse in
America. ...Even this book's minutiae, like the way the phrase "getting
Everleighed" was abbreviated into "one of America's bawdiest idioms,"
makes for good storytelling

That last paragraph is a little cryptic - is Ms. Maslin suggesting
that the "getting laid" idiom originated as an abbreviation of
"getting Everleighed?" I rather prefer the following etymology:

http://www.mtannoyances.com/?p=156
[excerpt:]

When all else fails, I tend to turn to my trusty Oxford English
Dictionary, or OED. The OED provides as definition 2b for lay: To
have sexual intercourse with (a woman). Occasionally intransitive
construction. for: (of a woman) to have sexual intercourse with (a
man). Also intransitive: (of a woman) to be willing to have
(extramarital) sexual intercourse. slang (orig. U.S.). [end excerpt]

--
Aloha ~~~ Ozzie Maland ~~~ San Diego