From the advice column in today's paper, I learned a new word for an old problem. Have you heard it before? How long has it (the word, that is; not the problem ) been around?

Dear Amy:
When my son was ready to attend college, ... I was curious about how he would react to dorm life.

The morning after he spent his first night in the dorm, we had breakfast together, and I asked him how it went. "Well, we had our first overnight guest," he said. His roommate had his girlfriend sleeping over the whole first week of school.
-- Mom of a College Grad

Dear Mom:
I learned a new term recently when I dropped my own daughter off at college. The situation your son found himself in is called "sexile."

According to Wiktionary sexile has been around about seven years.

There are over 12,000 Google hits for it.

Actually, it makes sense. When I was in college, I lived with 2 roommates, 1 who constantly had her boyfriend over. My other roommate and I couldn't stand it! His dog would wet all over the place, he didn't clean the bathroom, and we just felt...yes...sexiled!

Not to be confused, of course, with "sessile," or conflated with "sextile."

I didn't recognize it at first since I've never heard it in that tense. I heard "sexiled" many times in college.