Cunt!

[CharleyH]

That was a strange one outside hers when she caught me looking up at the stars. I gave that quote from a Nick Cave song and I thought she called me a cunt. I didn't realise that she was referring to Kant the philosopher. I even called Renton up about it. He reckons that Cave liften that line verbatim from a Kant book. What the fuck is the world coming to when your favourite lyricists let you down with such shoddy plagiarism?

LOL too wonderful for words on multiple levels.

 

[Guest]

I have used the word in stories before.
I have called women that particularly are being one that word.

Now...
I have the same issue with that that I do several other words....
Nigger
Bitch
Slut
Whore

Each of those words spoken at certain times by certain people are fine.... don't believe me..... listen to a conversation between two young Black teenagers you may hear them say 'Oh you my nigga'.... Bitch well I have smiled and thanked the person that called me that before and then busted out laughing harder as they laughed with me.... as a submissive or a slave how much being called 'My slut' by their owner turns them on... and whore in some of the same contexts

The word only has as much negative power as we give it

 

[CharleyH]

I have used the word in stories before.
I have called women that particularly are being one that word.

Now...
I have the same issue with that that I do several other words....
Nigger
Bitch
Slut
Whore

Each of those words spoken at certain times by certain people are fine.... don't believe me..... listen to a conversation between two young Black teenagers you may hear them say 'Oh you my nigga'.... Bitch well I have smiled and thanked the person that called me that before and then busted out laughing harder as they laughed with me.... as a submissive or a slave how much being called 'My slut' by their owner turns them on... and whore in some of the same contexts

The word only has as much negative power as we give it

I am not sure I agree on the words bitch, slut or whore, although in a way I am in agreement ( for later when it arises), yet I am interested in why you as a woman choose bitch, slut and whore as other words in league with the semiotic (symbolic/ iconic) cultural structure as the other two words?

 

[English Lady]

Throw me in the "I lurve it" camp, in context.

I'd never call anyone a cunt -it's just wrong. Why should being called a woman's naughty bits be such a disgusting swear word? Nah, I'd never ever use it as a swear word.

I probably use it alot, I enjoy the word and I write alot of dirty talk in my work. Cunt to me just sounds hotter, sexier and grabs me by the genitals in a good way. I love the word used right in a sexual context -as a swear word you can cut it out -it's just childish.

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

I have used the word in my writing... and then was called it when someone altered my Lit name because they didn't like me. . .

I can tell you there is a difference between writing it in a story, reading it in a story and then having it aimed directly at you in a vicious attack on your person.

It happened at Lit., by someone I would never have expected.

So if you want to write the word "cunt" for a story, I don't see a problem... you use it as a joke and your friend/friends know it. . .that is okay... YOU use it to violate a person's feelings, then you are not worth the time people invested to get to know you.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

What does the word mean to you as a writer? As an individual?

Do you see it as degrading or liberating? A celebration of a woman's sex or a great put-down?

What's your reaction when you hear it spoken or read it in print?

Personally, I cringed a little when I wrote the thread title. ( ) I was raised to consider "cunt" to be one of the biggest insults (if not the biggest) aimed at a woman, and for a long time I associated it with something dirty. Since joining Lit I've tried to dispel this feeling by using it for the first time in a piece I did for the Group Sex cat, but I still have issues surrounding that particular 4-letter word.

I've had the word spoken to me about my bits. I got hot. I got wet. I probably moaned.

 

[Aurora Black]

So if you want to write the word "cunt" for a story, I don't see a problem... you use it as a joke and your friend/friends know it. . .that is okay... YOU use it to violate a person's feelings, then you are not worth the time people invested to get to know you.

Me?

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

Me?

NO not you.... People in general.

 

[elizaloo]

Cunt

I used to have negative feelings about this word for most of my life....until about 3 years ago when I read the book, "Cunt, A Declaration of Independence" by Inga Muscio. In it she explores the current connotation of the word as well as its usage in history when it was uttered with reverence and not disgust or anger. A compellling book, highly suggest everyone with an interest pick it up and read.

I'd offer my copy but it's being passed around the local community college as we speak (um, write).

 

[cheerful_deviant]

To me, cunt is a word that can be used very effectivly in a story I feel but the writer has to be careful. In the heat of a passionate sex scene it can work very well. It's a harsh, earthy, crude sounding word that goes well with a fast, hard fuck. It hits right between the legs so to speak. It does not work well with a tender love scene at all. The word 'cunt' is just to hard, to jaring a word for tenderness. Like the word 'fuck', it has an edge that will knock the softness right out of a scene.

As for using it in public, I reserve it for my daily commute.

 

[minsue]

... as we speak (um, write).

. .

 

[Boxlicker101]

I never speak the word, considering it excessively crude. In my writing, even though I consider myself to be the writer of the dirtiest stories around, I don't use it in narration. I use it sometimes in dialogue, when a man and a woman are talking dirty while fucking or when a rapist is threatening a woman.

 

[Matadore]

In "real life" speaking I avoid using the term. When I use it I feel vulgar, unwashed, and soiled. There are women (never men) who I recognize as "cunts" as there are men who I recognize as "pricks" but I have rarely have used either term, even when I have been provoked by either sex or persons who are transsexual or are in situations where gender definition has made the choice of gender distinctive words difficult.

Its use in story telling is a different matter, as several fine authors have described here.

My wife objects to the word and to promote domestic tranquility, I avoid uttering it around her.

 

[MissBri]

 

[Guest]

I don't like the word.

But I was called this by a jerk of a boyfriend and it has horrible memories for me.

So I suppose I'm not the best to give an opinion.

 

[DeeplyHisForever]

Interesting

In my opinion cunt is a very strong word that I hate to use, but do sometimes when really insulting someone. I do however believe that in a non consent story cunt is the most appropriate word, it's raunchy and strong which makes it perfect. Pussy is more of a loving word that sounds more appealing than vagina ( which sounds to scientific).

 

[S-Des]

I don't use it much (maybe I haven't up to now, I'm not sure). The new story has it in the intro (which is a flashback), then again in the middle where the entire conversation happens. It's a husband trying to say the most hateful thing he can to hurt his wife (you'll have to read the story if you want to know why). To me it's something that I hold back for just the right occasion so it has the maximum impact. There aren't many of those words, so I try to use them sparingly.

 

[Antfarmer77]

Bitch
Slut
Whore

I use this expression ALOT when doing home improvement, I say it (sometimes in a loud, shrill, almost school-girlish tone) but as all one word, bitchslutwhore

 

[lil_elvis]

To me, cunt is a word that can be used very effectivly in a story I feel but the writer has to be careful. In the heat of a passionate sex scene it can work very well. It's a harsh, earthy, crude sounding word that goes well with a fast, hard fuck. It hits right between the legs so to speak. It does not work well with a tender love scene at all. The word 'cunt' is just to hard, to jaring a word for tenderness. Like the word 'fuck', it has an edge that will knock the softness right out of a scene.

As for using it in public, I reserve it for my daily commute.

Ditto, excpet the commute also includes dickhead, asshole, fucking idiot....

 

[DanseMacabre]

I have never considered this until I laid eyes upon this thread. I can understand why many see "cunt" as a grave insult upon the female sex, but there's also a growing number of people who have decided to break the chains of power that surround this taboo word by using it in a more positive way. To me, it represents the cradle of life and is worthy of respect instead of censure.

 

[English Lady]

I have never considered this until I laid eyes upon this thread. I can understand why many see "cunt" as a grave insult upon the female sex, but there's also a growing number of people who have decided to break the chains of power that surround this taboo word by using it in a more positive way. To me, it represents the cradle of life and is worthy of respect instead of censure.

I like that and couldn't agre more

 

[Quillman]

Creativity

Several fascinating points made on this thread. I am a male author and quite happy to use the word 'fuck' but find myself feeling uncreative and lacking in imagination if the 'C' word is the first to come to mind when writing. It's always a good time to reach for the cerebral theasaurus when this happens.

 

[Boota]

I have no problem with any word whatsoever. Use cunt if it is the right word for the situation. If you mean it as an insult, use it insultingly. If you mean it to give a harder edge to dirty talk in a story, or in real life, use it that way. I've heard it used as a term of endearment before, even toward a man, and that worked, too.

That said, cunt is the one word that I have been given the most grief over in my writing. I have only used it in one story, in my book to be specific. The book is filled to the rim with abrasive language, but the sparing use of the word cunt drew the ire of a few people.

Not that I cared. Those cunts could go fuck themselves.

 

[MissBri]

 

[Guest]

I love and embrace the word, on many different levels.

In writing, I use it as a power word, particularly in hot and hard BDSM scenes.

I enjoy calling people cunts (who I know and love) just for the fun of it.

I enjoy being called a cunt (by people I know and love) just for the fun of it.

I love it when my man calls me a cunt, cos it makes me as horny as hell!!!

It's a dirty, filthy, and sometimes degrading word, and it's one of the best, when used well.

Lou (cunt!)

P.S. Selena, what you said was spot on, and so fucking sexy!