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A lot of people seem to want a thread on this, so here goes. My own offering is not from literature. These two are real euphemisms used by Spanish colonial scribes.
Male genitalia were referred to as "noble parts" and women's breasts as "her embarrassments." How's that for a bit of misogyny?
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Bumping this up because the Discussion board appears to be broken. Sorry! I like the idea for this thread.
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Purple Helmet Warrior for men. that always made me giggle.
We were just discussing cleanliness issues at work, and the phrase, Extra cheese on that pink taco, was used.
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I tend not to read romance, but "his throbbing member" seems to crop up everywhere. It always makes me groan - in a bad way. In a, "Oh no, not again!" way.
There's got to be better terminology out there.
From real life, the other day my husband said something about wanting to get his potato baked. I ran out of the room.
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His manhood...that one makes me shudder
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A famous writer reports that he once made a small living writing porn, but had to quit when he accidentally typed, "She grabbed my throbbing sock." That, he says, had him falling on the floor laughing, and forever after, when he tried to write porn the line had ruined him for it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0l09K0-4fs
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Talking about euphemisms in sex scenes...
You guys MUST read Sarah Wendell's famous post "A Description of Nipples" about the wretched ways different writers have described that of part of the female anatomy.
Here's a taste of her wisdom:
Lately, the nipple descriptions are the ones that catch my attention… because they're all the same. The female nipples are pert, rosy, ruches, puckered, taut, and most often compared to fruit, like cherries, strawberries, or berries in general (no use of kumquat that I've found).
Cheers!Nevena from BC
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