Devaluation of the silver dollar

Gorza

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Many of our authors, most probably of the male variety, see varieties of coinage every time a woman reveals her breasts.

A most popular American cliche is that the perfect size for an areola is that of a US silver dollar. I hear that this particular denomination does not circulate in great numbers, and this then seems to be a reflection of said authors' lack of exposure to areolae IRL.

I've read some stories where there is a series of different breasts on display, with each pair being capped with areolae described in simile to different American coins. One innovative writer decided that a pair of large breasts was furnished with nipple-gardens the size and shape of credit cards! At least that's in keeping with the kerching theme.

If we have to have currency, then let it be golden dubloons, Byzantine bezants, good, old Shakespearean ducats, Arabian dinars, Krugerrands, British sovereigns, or mediaeval Chinese cash. The latter even have holes in the middle, so you could even thread them on to check!

However, let's have a reality check. Whenever I have the pleasure of seeing breasts, I do not think about money (do you?). Maybe I am a weird individual for not measuring each tit-circus that hoves into view against my extensive coin collection, but I hazard that the 'silver-dollar brigade' are cliche-riddled hacks who need to look at more breasts.

Most areolae are usually circular and roughly the size of various coins, and that is where any comparison stops. Coins are generally flat, while areolae hug a curved surface; coins are hard metal, while areolae are yielding flesh.

Areolae can be so big that they are difficult to surround with an OK sign, or small enough to be hidden under a thumb. Some can be elliptical, some can be a bit puffy. (Medically, puffiness of areolae is most between the ages of 13 and 15, and then reduces with age, so your 18-year-old All-American cheerleader might still have puffy dollars!) Age, pregnancy and nipple erection (medically, this is a quite different process from penile erection) can change the size and shape of areolae.

The colour of areolae and their nipples is worth description too: they can be various shades of pink, red and brown, even almost black (darker colours usually go with darker skin tones, but there is quite a lot of genetic variation).

If you authors want to get up close and personal with these merry-go-rounds (or carousels), you might want to describe those lovely little puckerings of the flesh. These are glands that secrete protective lubrication, which makes nipples quite tasty. (Medically, they are Montgomery's glands, named after a lucky 19th-century Irish physician who made an extensive survey of them.)

Am I a fetishist or just a concerned author? Whichever, I challenge you to write better, healthier, more real, and -- most definitely -- more kiss/lick/suck-able areolae.
 
I use "quarter" when I find it significant to mention; and don't mention it at all unless it has significance to the storyline (which it does in some fetishes I write about). I'm not usually referring to a woman when I use it, though. Men have them too.
 
I would guess the majority of erotica writers haven't gotten up close and personal about what they write about, which is not unusual for fiction writers. I haven't noticed an issue with Lit writers describing breasts, but it's not something I pay much attention to. You may not be giving enough credit to erotica writers. Interesting post, though. Academic thought tends to offer a different, more nuanced perspective, which can be refreshing.
 
I use "quarter" when I find it significant to mention; and don't mention it at all unless it has significance to the storyline (which it does in some fetishes I write about). I'm not usually referring to a woman when I use it, though. Men have them too.

Quarter? Boo! I find that in most stories (with the exclusion of some GM) men don't have areolae. I'm glad to hear you're bringing man nubbins back in, despite their monetisation.

I would guess the majority of erotica writers haven't gotten up close and personal about what they write about, which is not unusual for fiction writers. I haven't noticed an issue with Lit writers describing breasts, but it's not something I pay much attention to. You may not be giving enough credit to erotica writers. Interesting post, though. Academic thought tends to offer a different, more nuanced perspective, which can be refreshing.

Well, I find those silver dollars popping out of a bras and bikinis all over Lit. It does seem to be an American cliche. Unthinking use of cliche is a Bad Thing. We don't need to measure areolae with coins, there are far better ways to describe them.
 
The silver dollar has been and will most likely be the largest denomination of US coinage made, but the dollar bill will never go away.
 
The silver dollar has been and will most likely be the largest denomination of US coinage made, but the dollar bill will never go away.
Just await the next hyperinflation. It CAN happen here as in Germany, Brazil, elsewhere. When the US Treasury is forced to print trillion-buck bills so we don't need wheelbarrows to haul away our twice-daily pay (to spend as fast as possible because they'll only be worth 1/10th as much in an hour) then ones will be long gone. I base the above on accounts told me by Brazilian guitarist Bola Sete -- his wife An was my cow-orker long ago. If President Trump chooses to finance his policies via the printing press, all bets are off.
 
Just await the next hyperinflation. It CAN happen here as in Germany, Brazil, elsewhere. When the US Treasury is forced to print trillion-buck bills so we don't need wheelbarrows to haul away our twice-daily pay (to spend as fast as possible because they'll only be worth 1/10th as much in an hour) then ones will be long gone. I base the above on accounts told me by Brazilian guitarist Bola Sete -- his wife An was my cow-orker long ago. If President Trump chooses to finance his policies via the printing press, all bets are off.

Now see...you had to bring politics into this.
 
Now see...you had to bring politics into this.
Hey, the Supremes have ruled that money is speech, and silver-dollar-size areolas certainly deliver a messsage, and politics is just war (and sex-war) by other means, so QED Trump is relevant. Selah!
 
Whilst comparing an areola to a coin is, perhaps, logical, it leave many of us in some confusion. I've never SEEN a silver dollar, so I have no idea suitable for comparison.
Would any US reader understand the statement: "nipples like 'alf-crowns ' ?

BTW, I was delighted to note that the Wiki entry for the US Mint [ HERE ] gives the dimensions in metric measure; not that it makes much sense to me; I'm an unreconstructed LSD [inches, yards, miles & gallons] man.
 
Whilst comparing an areola to a coin is, perhaps, logical, it leave many of us in some confusion. I've never SEEN a silver dollar, so I have no idea suitable for comparison.
Would any US reader understand the statement: "nipples like 'alf-crowns ' ?

BTW, I was delighted to note that the Wiki entry for the US Mint [ HERE ] gives the dimensions in metric measure; not that it makes much sense to me; I'm an unreconstructed LSD [inches, yards, miles & gallons] man.

I have a silver dollar, several half crowns, and crowns. I prefer the French 19th Century silver 5-france pieces for their designs.
 
I have a silver dollar, several half crowns, and crowns. I prefer the French 19th Century silver 5-france pieces for their designs.
Mexican silver 20-peso coins of the 1970s had nice dimensions and heft.
 
My favorite American coins are, by far, the Mercury Dime and the Walking Liberty Dollar. There's also a pretty nice tricentennial coin of Rhode Island's founding with Roger Williams, but it's a bit abstract for my taste. I feel that coins should have a bit of heft for gravitas. Aluminum German marks always felt like toy money to me. Same goes for game pieces. I like when pieces are heavy enough to make you moves feel a bit more momentous.
 
... I feel that coins should have a bit of heft for gravitas. Aluminum German marks always felt like toy money to me. Same goes for game pieces. I like when pieces are heavy enough to make you moves feel a bit more momentous.

When I used to play 3 card brag with my friends in the pub, we used to play for the old pennies (last minted for circulation in 1967). Two shillings' worth of pennies (10 pence in new money) seemed substantial with 24 large coins.

Those 24 coins would just about buy a pint of the cheapest beer.
 
I thought I would take a look at this little erotica forum, and stumbled into a coin collectors' hideout.

For the nerds, my point (ahem!) was: nipples = yum, coins = taste funny!

If this persists, I shall expect a new submission about a pirate with a fetish for biting nipples, called Pieces I Ate!
 
I thought I would take a look at this little erotica forum, and stumbled into a coin collectors' hideout.

For the nerds, my point (ahem!) was: nipples = yum, coins = taste funny!

If this persists, I shall expect a new submission about a pirate with a fetish for biting nipples, called Pieces I Ate!

Of course among my many posted stories, one features pirates:

https://www.literotica.com/s/the-worst-chain-story-ever-ch-01
 
Silver dollars? Pfft!

You haven't seen this thread:

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1186431

Egg cups to soup bowls...

Oh MG. not that I haven't seen similar pics before, but I'm sitting here in the living room, my wife has Debussy on her pandora as she works on her laptop. I'm on the AH, quietly typing, then boobs appear on my screen. LOL. I must have taken a big breath or gasped or something because my wife looked over.

"Gregory, were those BREASTS I just saw out of the corner of my eye? Here, while I'm sitting next to you? What are you doing?

Actually she didn't see them, and wouldn't have been mad, but still, I was a bit shocked. Teach me to fiddle on Lit when my wife is sitting next to me. And she never calls me Gregory. :)
 
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