Come or Cum

[RoryOmore]

Trying to get this straight.

semen is cum

but when you ejaculate do you come or cum?

 

[sr71plt]

Thus far in the evolution of the term, most erotica publishers use "cum" as the noun and "come" as the verb.

What follows will be a dozen different personal opinions generated by the posters' Uncle Harolds.

So the answer for Lit. is "do as you please."

 

[HeyAll]

"come" is a technically correct word depending on the tense, but people want to read about "cum"

People wants those types of buzzwords, even though it maybe not be grammatically perfect.

 

[TxRad]

"come" is a technically correct word depending on the tense, but people want to read about "cum"

People wants those types of buzzwords, even though it maybe not be grammatically perfect.

Who are these people you're talking about? I've done over 200 hundred stories and never had anyone say they wanted cum instead of come or came. Cum is what you produce when you come.

 

[sr71plt]

"come" is a technically correct word depending on the tense, but people want to read about "cum"

People wants those types of buzzwords, even though it maybe not be grammatically perfect.

The noun and verb are treated differently by most erotica publishers. Is this the morning for disinformation?

 

[Hypoxia]

A LIT author is unlikely to be punished or rewarded for adhering to or violating some cum / come / came rule. It's probably best to avoid 'cumming' but even that isn't written in stone. (But not 'cummed', please.)

I avoid 'come' as a present-tense verb; IMHO it's too generic. "He spewed cum" (or "erupted with hot sperm"), not "He felt a come coming on." "Orgasmic waves swept over her," not "She came hard." That's for narrative. Dialog can be looser. "Cum for me," or "Come for me," both work. But it's really no big thang here on LIT. One-handed readers won't notice.

 

[Carnevil9]

Noun or verb, "cum" just sounds dirtier. So I try to stick with that.

 

[sr71plt]

Noun or verb, "cum" just sounds dirtier. So I try to stick with that.

I think that's where erotica practice is heading, and that's fine with me.

 

[StrangeLife]

According to Google Translate "Cum Baya" means "Cum Berry". Hmmm... intriguing

 

[Haulover]

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"cum" as the noun and "come" as the verb.
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Cum is what you produce when you come.

These are correct.






(IMHO)

 

[sbrooks103x]

A LIT author is unlikely to be punished or rewarded for adhering to or violating some cum / come / came rule. It's probably best to avoid 'cumming' but even that isn't written in stone. (But not 'cummed', please.)

I avoid 'come' as a present-tense verb; IMHO it's too generic. "He spewed cum" (or "erupted with hot sperm"), not "He felt a come coming on." "Orgasmic waves swept over her," not "She came hard." That's for narrative. Dialog can be looser. "Cum for me," or "Come for me," both work. But it's really no big thang here on LIT. One-handed readers won't notice.

I personally don't like when a writer says "sperm" instead of "cum". You can't see sperm.

 

[karaline]

In Japan they say 'go'

 

[sr71plt]

I personally don't like when a writer says "sperm" instead of "cum". You can't see sperm.

Yep, "sperm," as you usually see it used in erotica, is a misnomer for "semen."

 

[ElectricBlue]

In Japan they say 'go'

In Victorian England men would "spend". As if there were some finite allowance.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I use come as verb and noun. Cum just feels misspelled. Like I'm using textspeak.

 

[Gwanji16]

A LIT author is unlikely to be punished or rewarded for adhering to or violating some cum / come / came rule. It's probably best to avoid 'cumming' but even that isn't written in stone. (But not 'cummed', please.)

I avoid 'come' as a present-tense verb; IMHO it's too generic. "He spewed cum" (or "erupted with hot sperm"), not "He felt a come coming on." "Orgasmic waves swept over her," not "She came hard." That's for narrative. Dialog can be looser. "Cum for me," or "Come for me," both work. But it's really no big thang here on LIT. One-handed readers won't notice.

Love the allusion to one-handed readers!

Lots of ways to use it. Let your characters decide.

 

[Handley_Page]

The Victorian word was "Spend".

 

[sr71plt]

The Victorian word was "Spend".

For the noun as well as the verb?

 

[R. Richard]

Mt publishers insist that come is a verb, cum is a noun. Who am I to argue?

 

[BuckyDuckman]

As long as you maintain continuity within your stories, I think most readers will accept your convention. Few of our readers are grammarians.

 

[Hypoxia]

from The Bald-Headed Hermit and The Artichoke: AN EROTIC THESAURUS

Orgasm (to Achieve)
see Ejaculate

The predominance of male-derived terms in this list seems to suggest that the female orgasm is a modern invention.

bring off, cheer, cheese, climax, come, come off, come one's cocoa, come one's fat, convulse, cream, cream one's jeans, cream one's silkies, deposit, die, discharge, dry, ejaculate, emission, fade, fall in the furrow, fanny bomb, lire, get off, get one's balls off, get one's gun off, get one's nuts off, get one's rocks off, go over the mountain, have a double shot, have a nocturnal, have a small stroke, have a wet dream, have one's ticket punched, hit the top, jet one's juice, light off, little death, melt, number three, peak, pleasure, pop, pop one's cookie, pop one's cork, pop one's nuts, say YES!, see stars, shake and shiver, shoot off one's load, shoot one's load, shoot one's roe, shoot one's wad, spend, spew, spit, squirt, stand up and shout, stand upward, take one's pleasure, thrill, throw up

Fanny bomb: a female orgasm.

To come was used in Shakespeare's time to refer to achieving orgasm but remains a popular current euphemism today.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Thus far in the evolution of the term, most erotica publishers use "cum" as the noun and "come" as the verb.

What follows will be a dozen different personal opinions generated by the posters' Uncle Harolds.

So the answer for Lit. is "do as you please."

this is the formula ^^^

 

[Boxlicker101]

Who are these people you're talking about? I've done over 200 hundred stories and never had anyone say they wanted cum instead of come or came. Cum is what you produce when you come.

I have used both as verbs and "cum" as a noun. People have never complained about the latter but there have been complaints about both cum and come when used as verbs.

I think the problem might be the past tense of cum. There are perfectly good words such as gummed, hummed, slummed, bummed and others but, when I write "cummed" I think of "I kiked down the door and cummed in her fas."

 

[Boxlicker101]

For the noun as well as the verb?

Yes, it was used for both. At least in the porn I have read.

 

[AverageGary]

I learned something reading this thread.
I've always assumed that when writing erotic stories or sex, that cum works as a noun and a verb. But it looks like I assumed incorrectly. If you're writing dirty I always thought that as climax hits if you're going to use words instead of sounds, that "I'm cumming" reads better than "I'm coming" or "I'm gonna cum" reads better than "I'm gonna come" But it looks like I'm wrong.