Words you hate in a sex story

[bestkeptsecret678]

I kinda like crotch. Crutch, no. Gusset, generally even worse. Groin? Or just "up between his/her legs"?

Loins?

 

[Whanmore]

Dick.

Here in Oz twelve year old boys have dicks. Men have cocks.

America, please stop using dick for male genitalia, you dicks. Just fucking stop, okay? Seriously. Stop.

I think that's cultural. I know that black people normally use the work dick and rarely cock. I'm reminded of the scene in one of Zane's books. I think it was 'Nervous' They said "Men have Cocks" The main character replied. "I'm a Sista. I don't suck cock. I suck Dick."

I try to avoid words that adolescents use to try and sound cool. So no 'jizz' no 'spunk' no 'babymakers' . My GF said 'member' is something her Grandma says to describe a penis and now just seeing the word cracks me up. I used to worry about using the same words but I realized with the help of my girlfriend, at the end of the day its not like I'm trying to be Earnest Hemingway with these stores.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Probably the only term I really, really hate in all ways is “cunny”. It sounds absurd. It sounds like a word only a male, elderly pedo might use. I have only encountered it recently.

I saw a gorgeous woman in an adult feature during my young and formative years, who used the term as a pet name for her pussy. She was making eye contact while stroking it and I lost my young male mind. I have used it in my writing in a similar fashion.

Debbie replied from my left. “Yes. He’s very, very good.” I felt Debbie approach me and caress my face on both sides. “He’s even shaved for us.”

Angie sighed as she moved behind me. “How nice. No whisker burns on my cunny. Very thoughtful.” Angie’s hand caressed my ass. “Is he hard for us?”

 

[bestkeptsecret678]

I think that's cultural. I know that black people normally use the work dick and rarely cock. I'm reminded of the scene in one of Zane's books. I think it was 'Nervous' They said "Men have Cocks" The main character replied. "I'm a Sista. I don't suck cock. I suck Dick."

I try to avoid words that adolescents use to try and sound cool. So no 'jizz' no 'spunk' no 'babymakers' . My GF said 'member' is something her Grandma says to describe a penis and now just seeing the word cracks me up. I used to worry about using the same words but I realized with the help of my girlfriend, at the end of the day its not like I'm trying to be Earnest Hemingway with these stores.

I think Hemingway's preferred term was dick.

 

[MayorReynolds]

Most of my forbidden words are antiquated. I picked up the majority of these from an archive of old Liverpool Press/Greenleaf Classics books that I found. My impression of that style of writing was that it was about slamming the reader's brain with tons of cuss words and vulgarities to turn them on. So these may or may not be abundant in a modern Literotica story.

Prick - I'm guilty of this one. 'Dick' and 'cock' are my two interchangeable ones, and there are only so many synonyms, aren't there? Prick is a distant third I may have reached for once. If I did, I don't anymore.

Fucker - As in, penis. "He shoved the full length of his thirteen inch FUCKER into her."

Cocksleeve - If it's the kind you buy at a sex shop, sure.

Shithole/shitter/turd cutter - In reference to a woman's anus during buttsex. Look, I understand anal is more of a fifth date thing, and a lot of the appeal is because of how dirty and forbidden it is to go up there. But to describe its...real function...during a sex scene.....

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I write dialogue to match the personalities and moods of my characters, not the sensitivities of some woke readers.

I may not like the word(s) myself, but if they fit the character and the situation best, those are the ones I use.

 

[GrushaVashnadze]

Personally, I love the word cunt. In the right context, it can be so naughty and hot.

The use of "cunt" as a "very dirty word" has been discussed at length elsewhere: that seems to be something everyone agrees upon.

However, in the right context I find it warm, earthy, rich, and primevally Anglo-Saxon. For me, it is a far more honest and lovely word than "pussy", which I find apologetic, coy and irredeemably bisyllabic. I think "cunt" has a visceral beauty all of its own. Here are a couple of examples which I am happy with:

1. from Metamorphoses:

"I am coming, I am coming," I sing, as my soft arms extend heavenwards -- curling, flexing, fashioning out of my imagination leaves, vines, boughs of ash and laurel -- as I embrace the gift of mother-goddess to water-nymph. Below me, strings churn and gambol, myriad-divided, like the viridescent light which shines dappled through my branches. Sinewy lines of unseen woodwind twist and twine upwards. "I am coming, my verdant brothers. Sweetly rises in me the sap of the earth. "Süß durchströmt mich der Erde Saft..." [...]

Thirty minutes later, my dressing-room door is locked, and we lie naked on my couch caressing each other's breasts. Hers are full and round and luscious, like ripe peaches; mine are small, like the budding leaves which graced my costume less than an hour ago. She kisses mine, taking little nibbles which send shivers through my body. Gently I hum Strauss's final ecstasy-perfect F-sharp ostinato, as her lips explore my whole body from branch to root, sucking, nibbling, licking, caressing.

By the time she begins to taste my fertility, my cunt is moist as rich soil, damp as leaves in warm drizzle.

2. from Widadari Ophelia:

Both her hands now spread her pussy wide, the pale fingers of one delving deep, and the heel of the other rubbing faster, harder. And when at last her body spasmed, and a high-pitched cry, full of ecstasy and yearning, escaped her wide red lips, it was as if this was something that Heaven demanded.

But, even as my shaft still tented the cotton of my sarung, she began to fade. Her pale hair, crowned with dried flowers, became paler, until it disappeared. Her skin, so white and pure, blended into the now nearly horizontal sunrays, and then was no longer there. Her red lips, and the deep pink of her labia, lingered a touch longer, but then were gone, leaving nothing behind but the soft fragrance of cunt and grey foreign wildflowers -- rue, daisies and withered violets.

 

[ElectricBlue]

The use of "cunt" as a "very dirty word" has been discussed at length elsewhere: that seems to be something everyone agrees upon.

No, not everyone agrees, not by a long shot. Brits and Aussies are far more relaxed about using it than Americans.

I agree with you though. In the context of your examples, no other word works anywhere near as well.

 

[Dearelliot]

Roommate, pussy, orbs, ta tas, boobs, rock hard, and a few hundred more.

 

[mortis]

anything related to ridiculous sized breast and cocks….

immediate stop reading.

 

[electric1]

"Whilst."
The word, in any modern context, is pretentious, and the last thing that should be pretentious is a porn story.
Similarly, any word that suggests the author's thesaurus has a bookmark at the listing for "said" will make me cringe: "proffered," "intoned," "enunciated," "verbalized," etc.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

"Whilst."
The word, in any modern context, is pretentious, and the last thing that should be pretentious is a porn story.
Similarly, any word that suggests the author's thesaurus has a bookmark at the listing for "said" will make me cringe: "proffered," "intoned," "enunciated," "verbalized," etc.

'Whilst' is a perfectly normal British word, as unpretentious as a 'fortnight' in Benidorm.

Agree on the words for 'said', though - one of all those per story will be plenty.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Not just the size. Any exaggerated description of body parts, especially genitalia, is a warning sign for me.
If the authors devote an entire paragraph or even more to an extremely detailed description of the shape of a cock or a nipple—something is seriously wrong with them.

There are readers who want that, funny as it is. I had an Anonymous comment on my story once that he really liked it, but he is giving me 4 stars, because I didn't give a detailed description of one of the female characters. He had specifically asked for the size, color and shape of labia, the hair, the clit...everything. It is a silly fixation on anatomy, but maybe not even that uncommon.

 

[HordHolm]

Rod.

Where I'm from Rod is an old Scottish bloke who once had a big hit singing a song about sailing.

 

[Djmac1031]

Funny seeing this thread pop up again.

I just used "crotch" in my newest story. So apparently don't even follow my own tastes.

In the end, words are words. Without them, we'd have no stories.

If the word fits, use it.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

‘36C’, ‘38DD’ and anything giving a penis size in inches. Just so tacky.

 

[JohnEngelman]

I dislike any obscene words, even in dialogue. Shakespeare knew those words, but he did not use them. "Vulva" and "vagina" are beautiful words. Why use an ugly synonym like "cunt?" "Penis" is not a particularly lovely word, but I will use it before "dick" or "cock." A woman's bottom deserves a better noun, but I will use "bottom" "rear" or even "backside" before I use "ass." "Fuck" conveys an aggressive attack, or an insult, as in "fuck you." I will say "make love," or even "have sex."

 

[lovecraft68]

but I will use "bottom" "rear" or even "backside" before I use "ass."

I like the word derriere on a personal level, but it seems kind of outdated to use in an erotic story

 

[MillieDynamite]

That's how I feel about the R word but just today 2 people used it on memes on reddit. I honestly didn't think it was an acceptable slang word these days. I find it so offensive and when someone uses it I have no respect for anything they say.

Yeah, I can see how the use of the word would upset people.

 

[HordHolm]

Phonetically, ass and cunt sound great, so sorry if I'm going to keep using them. Vulva sounds like a Swedish car.
Assuming that not all of your characters live in the academic ivory tower, using only clean words will be jarring.
There is something dirty about sex: sweat, saliva, secretions, and more... Let's not be sanctimonious.
This is an erotica/porn site, not the fricking Atlantic.
The cultural/political correctness has thrown you completely off balance.
As an outsider, it seems to me that speaking correctly is more important for you than being correct; not saying the N-word is more important than actually not being racist.

Yes, I read that comment and I did wonder quite how it's possible to write erotic fiction without some descent into the language of the vulgar. Perhaps something Victorian in tone (but in the end, despite the shocked gasps of the maiden aunts and the covering of piano legs, the Victorians were hardly strangers to filth and obscenity either).

 

[JohnEngelman]

Phonetically, ass and cunt sound great, so sorry if I'm going to keep using them. Vulva sounds like a Swedish car.
Assuming that not all of your characters live in the academic ivory tower, using only clean words will be jarring.
There is something dirty about sex: sweat, saliva, secretions, and more... Let's not be sanctimonious.
This is an erotica/porn site, not the fricking Atlantic.
The cultural/political correctness has thrown you completely off balance.
As an outsider, it seems to me that speaking correctly is more important for you than being correct; not saying the N-word is more important than actually not being racist.

I will use the n word in dialogue where it is appropriate, and I do not care if anyone calls me a racist or not. I agree with what Charles Murray and Jared Taylor say about race, and with what Professor's Arthur Jensen and J. Philippe Rushton had to say about race.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I dislike any obscene words, even in dialogue. Shakespeare knew those words, but he did not use them.

From Twelfth Night:

MALVOLIO: By my life, this is my lady’s hand, these be her very C’s, her U’s and her T’s and thus makes she her great P’s.

(hint: the first 'and' would have been pronounced 'n'.)

From Hamlet, emphasis added:

HAMLET: Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
OPHELIA: No, my lord.
HAMLET: I mean, my head upon your lap?
OPHELIA: Ay, my lord.
HAMLET: Do you think I meant country matters?
OPHELIA: I think nothing, my lord.
HAMLET: That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’ legs.
OPHELIA: What is, my lord?
HAMLET: Nothing.

("Nothing" was a common euphemism for the vagina, and Shakespeare uses it repeatedly - in particular the title "Much Ado About Nothing" is a double entendre. The first syllable of "country" would have been emphasised in performance.)

Romeo and Juliet:

MERCUTIO: If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
Now will he sit under a medlar tree
And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
As maids call medlars when they laugh alone.—
O Romeo, that she were, O, that she were
An open-arse, thou a pop’rin pear.

("Open arse" was slang for a medlar fruit, for reasons that will be apparent if you look at pictures of one.)

 

[ruddygore]

I often am inclined to use crotch, as it refers to the entire area between someone's thighs, which has literary use. But to the point made here, its a terrible word; not sexy, not erotic... etc. Who's got a good replacement for "crotch"?

I've seen the word 'nethers' or 'nether region' used occasionally.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

There are readers who want that, funny as it is. I had an Anonymous comment on my story once that he really liked it, but he is giving me 4 stars, because I didn't give a detailed description of one of the female characters. He had specifically asked for the size, color and shape of labia, the hair, the clit...everything. It is a silly fixation on anatomy, but maybe not even that uncommon.

I think it is fairly common for readers to want details galore on every part of the characters anatomy. I've gotten the same complaints. Normally I don't describe their body parts in much detail, other than to say something like; she has really nice breasts, so perky and firm. But I've had readers who want to know the color of her nipples, as well as their size. And chest hair is a must for one reader, who almost leaves a comment if I fail to mention that the guy's got a little fur that she loves to run her fingers through.

Some readers either don't like us to leave anything to their imagination, or they really get off on reading about twelve inch cocks and areolas the size of saucers.

 

[Codoc24]

Is there a single word that can be used to describe the area of skin from the edge of a woman's pussy to the bend in her leg? That is one of my favorite parts to stimulate during oral sex but I have a hard time describing it in a story without it sounding a little wordy or off.