Turn-off/Gag me sex words.

[EriRae]

I am not a fan of "weeping," as in, "weeping slit," or "rosebud." Something that can squick me right out of a scene: a character saying, "Breed my ass." This makes me think of injecting a female donkey with semen. I also dislike the word, "globes," to describe either ass cheeks or breasts. Globes are 360 degrees, so maybe I could handle "half-globes," if the word didn't draw me so far out of the story. Who wants to think about geography when they're reading erotica? Is he gripping Australia or South America?

[silent_count]

Originally Posted by EriRae

I also dislike the word, "globes," to describe either ass cheeks or breasts. Globes are 360 degrees, so maybe I could handle "half-globes," if the word didn't draw me so far out of the story. Who wants to think about geography when they're reading erotica? Is he gripping Australia or South America?

I've always been mildly curious about why they call Australia, "down under". I confess that, "it came about because some erotica writers incorrectly use the word 'globe'", had hitherto not occurred to me. :)

[Tally]

I recently read a story where it was a dagger and sheath every time. Every time. It was dagger and sheath so much that eventually I couldn't help but imagine an actual dagger, and suddenly the whole story became oh so painful to read.

[WriterDude]

Can I add the word clout?

I was using the word in two different contexts long before the third meaning was brought to my attention.

What does clout mean to you?

[Silver-Midnight]

Originally Posted by WriterDude

Can I add the word clout?

I was using the word in two different contexts long before the third meaning was brought to my attention.

What does clout mean to you?

I'm afraid to ask what's the definition that put it in this thread.

[WriterDude]

Originally Posted by Silver-Midnight

I'm afraid to ask what's the definition that put it in this thread.

When I was a child, a clout was something you'd receive if you were naughty.
Then, I learned that if anything needed to get done, I would have to speak to someone with clout down the council.
Now, having moved to the other side of the hill, clout is more exclusively used with reference to the most desirable of all things. The front bottom.

It may just be a Lancashire thing, but following the uniform expressions of speechless horror when I used the term in a planning meeting many years ago, I thought the latter use was universal.

[Maryn]

I've only heard the word 'clout' used to mean power and connections ("The police commissioner has the clout to make these tickets disappear."), never a blow and certainly never any aspect of female anatomy.

Language. Amazing stuff, isn't it?

Maryn, big language fan

[CaseyMack]

Originally Posted by L.Blake

Moist and damp are awful words.

When I hear "moist," I think cake.

When I hear "damp," I think mildew.

In neither case do I think "sex"...

[M.Macabre]

Echoing the whole clout mystery. As in a target? When I hear clout I think of clot, some sort of bloody, bundled medical nightmare of a mess.

Originally Posted by CaseyMack

When I hear "moist," I think cake.

Moist is my least favorite word. Just say it- it makes me want to gargle. But for some reason, that makes it more salacious because I hate it so much.

[WriterDude]

But moist is such a promising word.

I have a line in my wip "...her knickers were sodden" Good or bad?

Don't want to start a new thread for this one either, but I have thoroughly bored myself with the word Twitch and I'm looking for replacement.

[M.Macabre]

Originally Posted by WriterDude

But moist is such a promising word.

I have a line in my wip "...her knickers were sodden" Good or bad?

Don't want to start a new thread for this one either, but I have thoroughly bored myself with the word Twitch and I'm looking for replacement.

When I hear sodden I think lumpy :/ Which makes it sound like she's sick,
but that's probably just me.

[GiantRampagingPencil]

"Vulva." Ugliest. Word. Ever. Closely followed by "scrotum."

[WildScribe]

Originally Posted by M.Macabre

When I hear sodden I think lumpy :/ Which makes it sound like she's sick,
but that's probably just me.

When I hear the word sodden I think of a heavy blanket that was left out in the rain. *shudder*

[GiantRampagingPencil]

Originally Posted by platedlizard

I actually knew a dog named Scrotum. He was a terrier/mutt who was a falconer's dog... nothing like watching a grown man yell "Scrotum!" in the middle of a blackberry bush while this ugly little dog flushes out a rabbit for a hawk. Totally not sexy (okay, the falconer was... something about men wearing leather chaps)



"Nether hole." Cunt. Asshole. "Channel". I guess there's a fine line between too crude or too flowery.

Nether hole? Jesus.

[Kit Walker]

Originally Posted by WriterDude

I have a line in my wip "...her knickers were sodden" Good or bad?

I dunno -- "sodden" always makes me think not just "wet" but "wet and dirty/soiled". Would "her knickers were soaked" work for you?

[Paul]

ticklestick.

(i think it was Ken Dodd who coined it, not sure. oh, and 'up the wazooo'. )

[Julie Ambrose]

Actually, I quite like vulva. It reminds me of velvet. I use it a fair bit, but always among a range of softer descriptions. I reckon it's all about context.

This is a great thread. I find it so hard to be both accurate and sensual without cliché (or, worse, over-reaching). Almost impossible, actually. I agree with many of the gag words... Purple helmeted warrior is gasp-inducing.

Having said that, I hate to think how many individual terms I've included that make the vision blur... 'Manhood' is one I've relied on a little too often (but then I'm working in an old-fashioned context).

But really, the lexicon is limited... I'd love to hear someone invent a new and delightful word for each body part.

I used 'pestle' once... Now that could make people laugh, or in the right context they might go with it.

[Feral_Sophisticate]

Originally Posted by Julie Ambrose

Actually, I quite like vulva. It reminds me of velvet. I use it a fair bit, but always among a range of softer descriptions. I reckon it's all about context.

I like the comparison with velvet, too, and I get the same connection when I hear "vulva", too.

Of course, I'm also an unabashed fan of performing cunnilingus, and quite enjoy the fact that the Victorian slang for eating at the Y was "tipping the velvet".

So yes, more velvet for me, please.

[Tezzirax]

Cooch - lowers my pulsrate immediately. If I am ever going into de-fib just lovingly whisper "cooch" in my ear.

[WildScribe]

Hehe, Cooch makes me giggle.

[Goblynmarket]

I'm a big fan of vulva. The word too, but I can't think of it without thinking of the chocolate vulva-pops they sold at the Vagina Monologes.

The worst, not really disgusting or a turn-off, but just down right confusing was 'bilobate', having two lobes. It was used for a woman's chest. I read the line ten times, and even googled it to be sure. To date I'm still don't exacting know what the author was trying to say about her breast. That she did in fact have two of them?

Hoo-haa is fun too.