by hotpup
Mash is one of my favorite shows and this is now one of my favorite stories! Thanks!
You have Margaret using the word 'kinky' to describe unusual sexual activities; however, this word was not commonly used in this manner in the era of the Korean War. According to the OED (Oxford English Dictionary), it wasn't until the mid-20th century that the adjective “kinky” came to describe someone “given to sexual behaviour regarded as strange or unconventional", citing as its first example a 1959 novel by Colin MacInnes, "Absolute Beginners': “Suze … meets lots of kinky characters … and acts as agent for me getting orders from them for my pornographic photos.”
Using a phrase like "out of the ordinary" or "unusual" might have been a little more accurate to the time period in which this story is placed.