derek cooper, in his 1983 book on skye, suggests that the isolation of shielings gave opportunity for "sexual experiment[ation]", and in evidence identifies a moor named "àirigh na suiridh", the bothy of lovemaking. the song "bothan àirigh am bràigh raithneach" confirms this with the verse "and we'll rear them in a shieling on the braes of rannoch, in the brush-wood enclosed hut of dalliance."