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any of the following and derived verbs, adjectives, nouns:

Wet, sopping, drip, dripping, dribble, trickle, squirt, spurt, spray, splash, douse, rush, run, leak, ooze, shoot, gush, pour, stream, flow, emit, discharge, torrent, river, flood, fountain, soak, spill, puddle

Additions from the persons named below* (5/1): seep, secrete, rivulet, weep, damp, saturated, drench, deluge, downpour, splatter, misted. Related category--slick, slippery.

Additions by pure (5/1): swamp, inundate, souse, bathe, wash, [[drizzle,]] sprinkle, shower, spit, boggy, dank, sloppy, water (v), watery, drown, spout, efflux, effusion, sluice, well (n,v), overflow, drop, droplet, tear (water), fluid

I'm speaking of usage NOT in a metaphorical sense, i.e., NOT 'words of love poured from her mouth'. We leave metaphor aside for the time being.

1) How often? Do you consider them essential?
2) Favorites?
3) How to use them well?
4) Cliches to avoid--e.g., spurt like a gusher, soaking wet

NOTE: I believe these 30 (and derivatives) cover [many of] the main bases, but if you have other favorites, volunteer them.

*THANKS TO THESE AND ALL OTHERS WHO CONTRIBUTED:
neonlyte, ladyjeanne, ibhard, selenakittyn, colleen, fallingtofly
 
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Seep
Damp
Moist
Secrete
Rivulet

Used these today in my How To story
 
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slick.

That's my favorite one.


The best way to use those words is without modifiers. Keep it simple.
 
Discharge makes me think of pus. Sorry. It's a very cold, medical term.
 
1) How often? Do you consider them essential?
in most sex scenes because everyone knows what wet feels like.

2) Favorites?
slick, wet, spurt, ooze, and slippery

3) How to use them well?
as said before, without modifiers. k.i.s.s.

4) Clichés to avoid--e.g., spurt like a gusher, soaking wet.
all of them, mainly similes are vapid and limp.
 
discharge --not[e] to ibhard

yes, it's not current, but older books use it in the sense like 'the gun discharged', and some translators have used it. so it's a bit like 'shoot.'

ib--I don't quite follow

{Pure: 3) How to use them well? }

as said before, without modifiers. k.i.s.s.


many of the words either are adjectives (sopping) or have adjectival forms.

which uses do you find OK and not OK--give examples. how about
'sopping wet pussy' or 'soaked panties'?

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sorry ib, can't seem to type, this morning; posting title is corrected
 
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neonlyte said:
Seep
Damp
Moist
Secrete
Rivulet

Used these today in my How To story
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Dying to read it, now! :D

These are the ones I use most often:

wet
spurt
ooze
shoot
flood
soak
spill
puddle

and yes, I use "ooze" now and then, and even "weep"... in spite of the general connotations.
 
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SelenaKittyn said:
Dying to read it, now! :D

These are the ones I use most often:

wet
spurt
ooze
shoot
flood
soak
spill
puddle

and yes, I use "ooze" now and then, and even "weep"... in spite of the general connotations.
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Ermm... you might have to wait. I'm on a tight schedule, leaving Wednesday for three weeks.

'Weeps' good, I don't use it enough. Puddle isn't used enough, I guess because too many concentrate on the action rather than the re-action, i like the aftermath, the coming down, it's different, just as erotic and rarely described.
 
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Pure said:
any of the following and derived verbs, adjectives, nouns:

Wet, sopping, drip, dripping, dribble, trickle, squirt, spurt, spray, splash, douse, rush, run, leak, ooze, shoot, gush, pour, stream, flow, emit, discharge, torrent, river, flood, fountain, soak, spill, puddle

I'm speaking of usage NOT in a metaphorical sense, i.e., NOT 'words of love poured from her mouth'. We leave metaphor aside for the time being.

1) How often? Do you consider them essential?
2) Favorites?
3) How to use them well?
4) Cliches to avoid--e.g., spurt like a gusher, soaking wet

NOTE: I believe these 30 (and derivatives) cover all the main bases, but if you have other favorites, volunteer them.
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Any words you notice you are using, you're probably using too often. Therefore, 4)
 
Pure said:
yes, it's not current, but older books use it in the sense like 'the gun discharged', and some translators have used it. so it's a bit like 'shoot.'

ib--I don't quite follow
use those words is without modifiers

many of the words either are adjectives (sopping) or have adjectival forms.

which uses do you find OK and not OK--give examples. how about
'sopping wet pussy' or 'soaked panties'?
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Ok, typo first - mean to say "use those words without modifiers"

Stuff like 'gushing stream' and 'soaking flood' are overkill.
Soaked panties is great.
Sopping wet is ok, because wet might also be 'barely wet'
 
Lauren Hynde said:
Any words you notice you are using, you're probably using too often. Therefore, 4)
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Learn new ways to use them, if I'm not wrong in what I've read of you writing and poetry, you take the familiar and apply it freshly.
 
Given my preference in genre, I obviously will use words that try to describe wetness a good bit. I avoid using the willy nill however. There is a correct word choice for every situation and making the corect choice is paramount in making the scene go as you wish. Slick is probably the best word out there to describe a pair of panties on a woman how has been being teased and titilated all evening. Saturated is another. sopping wet would probably also apply, if you wished to comment on the over all condition other than the effect of her juices on the fabric.

The thing is, the words have to be used correctly, in context. I am not the most experienced person on these boards, but I have had a few lovers. One of them, could literally get so excited that her jucies would run down the inside of her thighs if she were standing or kneeling. She, literally, could get excited enough to soak the crotch of her pants and have it soak through to soak her jeans as well. She is also singular, in my experience. Most of my lovers just haven't gotten wet to that degree.

No word should be banned, but no word should be the automatic first choice reguardless of context either.

Liquid words are no diferent than any other kind, choose the right one and it flows, choose the wrong one and the reader can be jarred out of your world.
 
LadyJeanne said:
slick.

That's my favorite one.


The best way to use those words is without modifiers. Keep it simple.
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Oh I am so with you on that one - 'slick' is descriptive and sensual - one of my favs!
 
Hmmm...well, I use a lot of the same ones....particularly "drench", "soak", "damp", and sometimes just plain "wet". But I also like "gush" and "squirt", though only when I am describing female ejaculation. Have had it happen on me once or twice with a girl, just not consistently. And it wasn't as dramatic or extreme as what happened with Colly. But it was still nice.
 
My favorite liquid-related words:

deluge, downpour, weep, pour, splattered, misted, drenched, and slick or slippery.

I use them as needed. Quite often I just leave it at "wet" because... well, who wants to read about dry sex? We all know it's going to be wet, so lets waste adjectives on other things. Tight, for example. Or silky. I need a better thesaurus, though, because I'm getting kind of bored with using the same or similar descriptions for everything.

Maybe I can start using colors to describe sensations...

"Her skin felt like sunshine, a thick, honeyed sensation against his fingertips, as golden as lazy summer afternoons spent on the banks of his favorite swimming hole..."

Hmm... maybe? :D
 
LadyJeanne said:
Ok, typo first - mean to say "use those words without modifiers"

Stuff like 'gushing stream' and 'soaking flood' are overkill.
Soaked panties is great.
Sopping wet is ok, because wet might also be 'barely wet'
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exactly what i meant in my reply. keep it simple and direct. overkill makes for silliness.
 
Huh. Are we talking about sex or weather here?
 
weather or sex

hi liar,

do you see some 'weather' words that aren't of much use? i purposely did not include 'stratosphere' and 'cumulonimbus' and 'thundering' (as in 'her thundering thighs').
 
Pure said:
hi liar,

do you see some 'weather' words that aren't of much use? i purposely did not include 'stratosphere' and 'cumulonimbus' and 'thundering' (as in 'her thundering thighs').
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Well I might get slapped for this, but of those listed in the top post, here are some that I couldn't ever see used in an erotic context - except maybe for parody.


trickle - three body fluids can trickle, none has to do with sex (unless you're kinky)

spray - deodorant? what?

rush, run, pour, stream, flow - come on, how wet can it get?

discharge - is what batterys do

torrent, river, flood - are we into pissing here?

fountain - as I said, for humor, could work.

weep - is what you do if the sex was really bad

drench, deluge, downpour, misted - weather. bad weather too.

swamp - is where Shrek lives.

shower - is a place (where you however can have sex), or a way too weather-ish word.
 
oh, i love 'swamp'--he thrust his tongue deep into her swamp

shower--'Lionel's, Jeremy's and finally Harry's cum showered her face.

on the connection of weather and sex, see these words of the poet (L.H.)

your body, below, welcomes rain and breath and dawn.
 
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oh, i love 'swamp'--he thrust his tongue deep into her swamp
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How about 'bog'? Yeah, I think I'm gonna use 'bog' in my next story.
 
I like the word sluice. They don't get much wetter than that.

When my men come, the semen often jets from their cocks at first. If they're on their back, they fountain into their partners. Semen comes out in gouts or sometimes even slugs. It's often molten.

Viscous is another favorite of mine, as is the synonymous viscid. Lubricious is good too. Her viscous lurbicious secretions does it for me, mouthwise. You can substitute exudations if you prefer.

Recently I came across the word eruct: eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical. I'm not sure how I feel about it, because it can also mean to eject gas, although pearlescent eructations has a certain Victorian charm. Maybe Shanglan would like it?
 
question for dr m-- or others

since you're past master of this stuff-- do see a problem incorporating the words Liar's uncomfortable with (as too 'weatherish') in your erotic writing? see his posting yesterday marked 5:39 pm. and reproduced, below.

can you give a couple examples how you'd use a couple of them, if you would?


[LIAR'S LIST]
Well I might get slapped for this, but of those listed in the top post, here are some that I couldn't ever see used in an erotic context - except maybe for parody.


trickle - three body fluids can trickle, none has to do with sex (unless you're kinky)

spray - deodorant? what?

rush, run, pour, stream, flow - come on, how wet can it get?

discharge - is what batterys do

torrent, river, flood - are we into pissing here?

fountain - as I said, for humor, could work.

weep - is what you do if the sex was really bad

drench, deluge, downpour, misted - weather. bad weather too.

swamp - is where Shrek lives.

shower - is a place (where you however can have sex), or a way too weather-ish word
 
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