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cynthia_arrow started a post on words that will take you right out of a good sex scene. It's an interesting topic; I was just going to link to her entry, but then I realized it was f-locked.
So, I'm basically stealing the idea from her. Hope she doesn't mind. I'm just interested in hearing from everyone.
So, tell me: what are some certain words that, upon reading, throw you right out of an otherwise passable or even quite nice bit of porn? Mood-kill words, we could say.
There are the classics, of course.
Me, I still can never get over "cum". Never ever EVER gonna get around that one. Especially when it's being used as a verb, like, "I'm going to cum!" No. Just...NO.
I also can never seem to get around "pussy", because to me it hits this perfect note of being somehow both shudder-inducing and making me want to break into incredulous laughter. I can never take that word seriously, I guess, especially during a steamy raunchy sex scene. (Conversely, however, I have discovered I no longer have a problem with "cunt". As long as it's in a scene where the writing style is already dark and filthy, it adds a nice little punch. And face it, there just aren't that many euphanisims for "lady-bits". So I might as well tolerate one.)
Then of course, there are the truly inappropriate descriptive terms.
cynthia_arrow brought up "ooze", and I have to mention that only to heartily concur. Nothing in a sex scene should ever, ever "ooze", at least not if you want the scene to actually stay sexy.
My personal unfavorite is whenever the author throws in a word evoking, I suppose, the "tightness", but does it incredibly wrong: "crammed", "packed", "wedged", "stuffed"...the list goes on. Unfortunatly.
So what about you? What have you seen that totally ruined the smex for you? What are some bad-choice porn words to make you shudder? I'm all ears.
So, I'm basically stealing the idea from her. Hope she doesn't mind. I'm just interested in hearing from everyone.
So, tell me: what are some certain words that, upon reading, throw you right out of an otherwise passable or even quite nice bit of porn? Mood-kill words, we could say.
There are the classics, of course.
Me, I still can never get over "cum". Never ever EVER gonna get around that one. Especially when it's being used as a verb, like, "I'm going to cum!" No. Just...NO.
I also can never seem to get around "pussy", because to me it hits this perfect note of being somehow both shudder-inducing and making me want to break into incredulous laughter. I can never take that word seriously, I guess, especially during a steamy raunchy sex scene. (Conversely, however, I have discovered I no longer have a problem with "cunt". As long as it's in a scene where the writing style is already dark and filthy, it adds a nice little punch. And face it, there just aren't that many euphanisims for "lady-bits". So I might as well tolerate one.)
Then of course, there are the truly inappropriate descriptive terms.
cynthia_arrow brought up "ooze", and I have to mention that only to heartily concur. Nothing in a sex scene should ever, ever "ooze", at least not if you want the scene to actually stay sexy.
My personal unfavorite is whenever the author throws in a word evoking, I suppose, the "tightness", but does it incredibly wrong: "crammed", "packed", "wedged", "stuffed"...the list goes on. Unfortunatly.
So what about you? What have you seen that totally ruined the smex for you? What are some bad-choice porn words to make you shudder? I'm all ears.