Me So...Sexually Charged?

catt · November 15th, 2005 10:17 AM

Was recently discussing with a friend certain words and phrases - related to sex - that run a chill up my spine, all kicked off by said friend's use of the word 'horny' (a personal favourite pet hate of mine). He had issue with 'panties', himself, although I feel this might be singularly due to a deliberate backlash against an upbringing comprised mainly of Benny Hill and Carry On films.

What terms, slang, bastardisations, and turns of phrase in relation to sex really get you grimacing, if any?

(Adversely, I really am quite fond of 'knickers'...)

mikhaill · November 15th, 2005 01:13 PM

Well I quite like "horny" AND "panties" ... *blush*

catt · November 15th, 2005 02:22 PM

mikhaill wrote:

Well I quite like "horny" AND "panties" ... *blush*

You like the words, or the context? *grin*

mikhaill · November 15th, 2005 02:50 PM

catt wrote:

You like the words, or the context? *grin*

Ha! Well I certainly like the context!

I don't mind the word "horny" although I grant it's not a very sophisticated word.

The word "panties" I like very much. "Knickers" is cute, but panties is, well, somehow hotter. Whenever I see/hear the word "panties" I cvisualise them being worn. By a really hot girl. So there.

catt · November 15th, 2005 02:58 PM

mikhaill wrote:

Whenever I see/hear the word "panties" I cvisualise them being worn. By a really hot girl. So there.

Does that come from watching films like Revenge Of The Nerds/Meatballs/Animal House as a teen? Don't be shy - I saw those films, too.

*shakes fist at the Dean*

mikhaill · November 15th, 2005 04:07 PM

I didn't get the connection until I saw the title of your post. No, no, it's nothing to do with those movies. I think it's just my inherently dirty mind that wants to see female underwear on sexy female bodies. Somehow "panties" puts that image in my head better than "knickers" does.

I'll work out a scientifiec explanation of this and get back to you

SCSIgirl · November 15th, 2005 04:38 PM

catt wrote:

Was recently discussing with a friend certain words and phrases - related to sex - that run a chill up my spine, all kicked off by said friend's use of the word 'horny' (a personal favourite pet hate of mine). He had issue with 'panties', himself, although I feel this might be singularly due to a deliberate backlash against an upbringing comprised mainly of Benny Hill and Carry On films.
What terms, slang, bastardisations, and turns of phrase in relation to sex really get you grimacing, if any?
(Adversely, I really am quite fond of 'knickers'...)

Actually it's in your perspective. I see 'Horney" as a tribute to Dr. Karen Horney, a student of Freud's. She published her book on female sexuality around the turn of the 1900s. At this time sex was enough of a taboo subject, and women were certainly not to discuss such things. She was a daring pioneer.

I realize the resulting slang 'feeling horney" was not a tribute, but a smirky way of saying "I want to have sex", yet most of us would never know about her except for the word.

Which reminds me, did you know 'avacado' is the Aztec word for testicle? Our language is rife with sexual innuendos.

catt · November 15th, 2005 11:31 PM

mikhaill wrote:

I didn't get the connection until I saw the title of your post. No, no, it's nothing to do with those movies. I think it's just my inherently dirty mind that wants to see female underwear on sexy female bodies. Somehow "panties" puts that image in my head better than "knickers" does.
I'll work out a scientifiec explanation of this and get back to you

Re: title of post; Full Metal Jacket and Meatballs have, I'm pleased to say, little in common other than tenuous links to smuttage *S*. And please do! - although scientific explanations tend to get my panties in a twist...

catt · November 15th, 2005 11:34 PM

SCSIgirl wrote:

Actually it's in your perspective. I see 'Horney" as a tribute to Dr. Karen Horney, a student of Freud's. She published her book on female sexuality around the turn of the 1900s. At this time sex was enough of a taboo subject, and women were certainly not to discuss such things. She was a daring pioneer.
I realize the resulting slang 'feeling horney" was not a tribute, but a smirky way of saying "I want to have sex", yet most of us would never know about her except for the word.
Which reminds me, did you know 'avacado' is the Aztec word for testicle? Our language is rife with sexual innuendos.

That's true, I certain wouldn't have traced the origins of a word like 'horny' back to a feminist sex pioneer! Kudos due or not, it's still a toilet-stall-wall expression that forces an involuntary clenching of everything that can be clenched.

And I didn't know re: avocado, either! I am learning (and hopelessly forgetting) new things every day.

However, I will say that the former goes much better with some cream cheese and a slice of sourdough.

Markk02474 · November 16th, 2005 04:13 AM

"Cunt". My ex-gf used it in reference to other drivers, often. "Cunt" is used less in the US than in the UK to describe a person. For the actual bits, "cookie" or "cooter" is nicer on my ears.

I was taken aback by how often and commonly the word "stuffed" was used in everyday speech while in Sydney. I didn't find it offensive, however.

I think Austin Powers created the cringe factor with "horny". Randy is fine.

"Panties" sounds juvinile - perhaps the appeal. I like "knickers" and "knickers in a twist."

"Penis" is really un-sexy as most clinical names. "End", "dick", and "package" are OK.

jdudley76 · November 16th, 2005 04:23 AM

SCSIgirl wrote:

Which reminds me, did you know 'avacado' is the Aztec word for testicle? Our language is rife with sexual innuendos.

I've never had any sex-related words make me cringe. I did learn recently though that the word vagina comes from latin for the word for sheath. I thought that was both funny and disturbing at the same time.

mikhaill · November 16th, 2005 10:23 AM

catt wrote:

- although scientific explanations tend to get my panties in a twist...

You ... er ...um ...what ...uhhh ...wait ....

mikhaill · November 16th, 2005 10:25 AM

SCSIgirl wrote:

did you know 'avacado' is the Aztec word for testicle?

I am so going shopping for Aztesticles this weekend.

jdudley76 · November 17th, 2005 04:44 AM

mikhaill wrote:

You ... er ...um ...what ...uhhh ...wait ....

I'll second that.

SCSIgirl · November 17th, 2005 05:37 AM

mikhaill wrote:

I am so going shopping for Aztesticles this weekend.

If the Aztecs thought they looked like testicles, it makes me wonder what culture we got the word PEAR from and what they are named after. It would be the same pair, would it???

catt · November 17th, 2005 09:44 AM

Markk02474 wrote:

"Cunt". My ex-gf used it in reference to other drivers, often. "Cunt" is used less in the US than in the UK to describe a person. For the actual bits, "cookie" or "cooter" is nicer on my ears.
I was taken aback by how often and commonly the word "stuffed" was used in everyday speech while in Sydney. I didn't find it offensive, however.
I think Austin Powers created the cringe factor with "horny". Randy is fine.
"Panties" sounds juvinile - perhaps the appeal. I like "knickers" and "knickers in a twist."
"Penis" is really un-sexy as most clinical names. "End", "dick", and "package" are OK.

A lot of people still baulk at 'cunt' - but am guessing, as with 'fuck', we'll all be desensitised to it in another 10 or so years. 'Cookie' and 'cooter' are...odd, but certainly have a sweet overtone (nothing offensive to those).

'Stuffed' in Australia can mean full after a meal, or 'everything's utterly fucked'. I can't imagine anyone finding it offensive, but then again, I'm often surprised by the reactions of my American friends to commonplace Aussiestralian slang and culture.

'Randy' makes me think of a bull/ram on heat.

And yes, I am a fan of 'knickers'.

As for 'penis' and other penis-related words, I'm yet to personally find one that doesn't make me simultaneously giggle/cringe. Any further suggestions, girls and boys?

catt · November 17th, 2005 09:47 AM

jdudley76 wrote:

I've never had any sex-related words make me cringe. I did learn recently though that the word vagina comes from latin for the word for sheath. I thought that was both funny and disturbing at the same time.

...but also strangely apt!

catt · November 17th, 2005 09:48 AM

mikhaill wrote:

You ... er ...um ...what ...uhhh ...wait ....

You heard *S*

catt · November 17th, 2005 09:49 AM

jdudley76 wrote:

I'll second that.

...and you.

SCSIgirl · November 17th, 2005 04:14 PM

catt wrote:

A lot of people still baulk at 'cunt' - but am guessing, as with 'fuck', we'll all be desensitised to it in another 10 or so years. 'Cookie' and 'cooter' are...odd, but certainly have a sweet overtone (nothing offensive to those).
'Stuffed' in Australia can mean full after a meal, or 'everything's utterly fucked'. I can't imagine anyone finding it offensive, but then again, I'm often surprised by the reactions of my American friends to commonplace Aussiestralian slang and culture.
'Randy' makes me think of a bull/ram on heat.
And yes, I am a fan of 'knickers'.
As for 'penis' and other penis-related words, I'm yet to personally find one that doesn't make me simultaneously giggle/cringe. Any further suggestions, girls and boys?

Oddly enough, bitch offends me. In a rap show we had this year, it was one performers moniker. His whole sound check consisted of squealing "bitch" at the top of his lungs in a very high pitched voice. After listening to him yelling "bitch" thirty or forty times and complaining to the monitor tech that it wasn't right, I knew music had reached a new low. Yet the girls are screaming to get over the barricade for him during the show.

I just don't "get it". I don't think I ever will.

Of course all my daughter's friends refer to each other as sluts and Hos, so I'm definately on the wrong side of the lunatic fringe.

pia · November 17th, 2005 05:26 PM

I used to find the word panties icky .. I think it reminded me of dirty old men taking advantage of young girls .. hmmm .. anyway for some reason I quite like that word now .. I find it cute .. maybe I am just not afraid of old perverts anymore Anyway now that i like panties i can't think of any words in relation to sex that really get me grimacing .. but there are a few that i just dont find very sexy like penis and vagina. I used to dislike making love, it made me feel all squirmy .. i prefered fucking or sex or shagging .. but now i like making love .. as long as it is used in the right circumstances. It sometimes offends me when people use the word slut but it totally depends on the context and the volition behind the use of the word, generally it doesn't bother me so much anymore.

Cunt is a good word i like it because it sounds little and cute but still tough.

liandra_dahl · November 17th, 2005 09:32 PM

pia wrote:

Cunt is a good word i like it because it sounds little and cute but still tough.

I'll second that, and I think the words "cock" and "cunt" sound good together.

I get irked by slang terms for the labia, like flaps or beef curtains...

SCSIgirl · November 18th, 2005 02:26 AM

liandra_dahl wrote:

I'll second that, and I think the words "cock" and "cunt" sound good together.
I get irked by slang terms for the labia, like flaps or beef curtains...

Never heard those. But then I never followed the American = Yank = Tank = Septic logic either.

A lot of guys get offended by Putz. When I was in school it meant a sexually stupid guy. Now it means his dick.

BTW - the working friends I'm stuck with call each other "Dick" quite a bit, but it's used as a "happy insult".

Belgareth · November 18th, 2005 05:29 AM

liandra_dahl wrote:

I'll second that, and I think the words "cock" and "cunt" sound good together.
I get irked by slang terms for the labia, like flaps or beef curtains...

I really don't like a lot of the pseudonyms which are in current use. The words cock and cunt are from the same language roots, I believe Old Anglo-Saxon, so may be Nordic or Teutonic in origin (I don't have my OED to hand). They are basic word forms and have a power and energy that their allogories lack. It's a shame that they are now so often used in a derogative fashion, in the same way as the verb to fuck is denegrated by it's use as an expletive. Although, in the present day, I wonder how many persons of the female gender would appreciate being informed that they fuck sublimely??????

jdudley76 · November 18th, 2005 06:01 AM

catt wrote:

Re: title of post; Full Metal Jacket and Meatballs have, I'm pleased to say, little in common other than tenuous links to smuttage *S*. And please do! - although scientific explanations tend to get my panties in a twist...

I'll have to tell you all about string theory sometime! ;o)

SCSIgirl wrote:

Oddly enough, bitch offends me. In a rap show we had this year, it was one performers moniker. His whole sound check consisted of squealing "bitch" at the top of his lungs in a very high pitched voice. After listening to him yelling "bitch" thirty or forty times and complaining to the monitor tech that it wasn't right, I knew music had reached a new low. Yet the girls are screaming to get over the barricade for him during the show.

I never liked bitch either, but it never struck me as sexual.

liandra_dahl wrote:

I get irked by slang terms for the labia, like flaps or beef curtains...

I've never heard of those terms either. Must be an Austrailian thing.

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