Australian linguistic question

I am pondering upon the verb "to root." I know it means "to fuck," but I'm wondering if it's used in a fairly neutral denotative way (not jokey, not hostile) simply to refer to people having sex. The sentence context would be something like, "He didn't know if the two of them were actually [having sex]."

"Rooting" sounds odd to me in that context, but that could easily just be because it's not a word I use myself.

DAAS drabble: "Performance"

Title: Performance
Fandom: Doug Anthony All Stars RPF
Character: Richard
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None needed
Word count: 150
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. I make no claim that any of this ever happened.
Summary: Richard thinks about Paul, Tim, and the effect of having an audience.
Notes: Inspired by a number of DAAS publicity photos I've seen, but especially this one (with thanks to Tootsiemuppet for the link).


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