A few weeks ago, when I asked whether cuffing season might be a little toxic , I was unaware that cuffing itself actually already has an evil twin. Enter: “Sledging.” A more specific (and more specifically toxic ) variant of cuffing, sledging refers to getting into a cuffing season relationship with the intention of breaking things off at the end of winter.

While there’s nothing wrong with a short-team seasonal fling, the toxicity comes into play due to the fact that the other person—the one “getting sledged”—has not been made aware that this romance has an expiration date, at least not in any clearly communicated, agreed-upon terms.

The name itself comes from the act of dragging a literal “sledge” (British for sled, I believe), through the snow, the implication being that the sledge

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