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There's a whole series of synonyms for the human rear end. Rump doesn't cut the mustard with me, as I just think of a slab of nicely grilled cow. See, that read differently from 'a nicely grilled steak' but it's the same thing in practice.
From Latin, meaning buttocks, the perfectly acceptable word 'nates' can sometimes be found in erotic fiction. It doesn't ring my bell; I guess because it is so rare it doesn't have the imagery of an ass in my perverted mind.
It's like 'turgid'. I know the word comes from Latin meaning 'swollen' or 'inflated' but every time I read that 'his cock became turgid', I remember how my English professor used to describe my prose style as 'turgid' (it probably still is). The word just has a negative connotation in my mind, but perhaps it works for you.
That, rather than showing off, is the point of this piece. Words have a history, usually a long convoluted one and almost always a personal history for the reader. I know a lot of women find 'cunt' too shocking to be sexy but I'm quite comfortable with it. In fact, knowing some prudish doctors thought up 'vagina' to protect my sensibility reinforces my unease with the word and preference for 'pussy' or 'cunt'.
In reading a lot of erotica (girls just gotta have fun), you can see words evolving. Even twenty or thirty years ago, a hero's 'shaft' 'slid into' or 'entered' the heroine's 'welcoming opening'. This generally seems naff to us today unless the context is right. These days, when you read the stories on the site, 'fuck my cunt' has changed from being nasty and aggressive to implying an intimate erotic urgency.
I like this trend but I do have a niggling worry. When these taboo expressions finally become soft and mushy, as they inevitably will, where are we going to find new words to convey raw sexual urges? History suggests that immigrant words from other languages or dialects are the most popular. So, you Chinese and Arabic scholars out there, any suggestions for some rude monosyllabic neologisms?
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Any feedback, advice, information, correction would be gratefully received.
- COMMENTS
tomtrahover 4 years agothank you for this trip through the world of erotic words, i've come back to it a couple of times : not much at lit. makes me laugh that wholeheartedly ...
"embrasser Fanny" (= kiss Fanny), that's what a loser - or losing team - by 13 points to nil in a game of pétanque has to do and you'll find lots of pictures of Fannys (not fannies) on google images when you search there with these two French keywords. There is a very beautiful semi-relief of a Fanny in the room next to the bar at the grand café at Grasse. You can't miss it on the way to the loo, but you may not recognise it as the curtains may be closed - pink lacquered Fanny is in the wooden box some 40 cm wide and 50 cm high if i remember well, and fixed on the wall at just the right level for applying a kiss (mind you, that's reseved for losers) ... if you would like me to send you a picture, just le me have your mail
yowserabout 5 years agoLovely rumination on origins and usage. In good writing there is often the dilemma between precision and poetry, in erotic writing the poetry should always win out (if not overwrought, when things become woefully ridiculous - 'tunnel of love' - spare me.) While some literotica writing is quite good (not a lot) I am surprised there are not more innovative attempts using the literary arts of metaphor. In describing erotically sensual events one runs into the same issues that those who write about other sense topics: the food and wine critics who come up with bizarre baroque terminology - the 'prismatic luminescence' school of description. Yet I yearn for more erotically experimental verbal utilisation than simple crude word usage.
Lyricallialmost 9 years agoI love words, and it's always fun to know where they came from. This was an informative and enjoyable read.
Oleguyabout 10 years agoAgain I lament that this system only allows 5*
Just to get slightly off the subject I had a raging (?) argument with a very ostentatious young man when I claimed to be much more 'gay' than him as I was laughing.
