Erotic Edutainment

[rescatooor]

I may be totally off base, but wasn’t the term linked to LBJ (literally) swinging his dick around in the White House?

Nice if this is the case. I use it from time to time. Might even use it in erotica if i haven't already.

I was relatively recently educated on all the regional words for genitalia. You had your meat wallets and the like. Who are these Shakespeares that came up with these.

 

[ScrappyPaperDoodler]

Nice if this is the case. I use it from time to time. Might even use it in erotica if i haven't already.

I was relatively recently educated on all the regional words for genitalia. You had your meat wallets and the like. Who are these Shakespeares that came up with these.

The dozens of euphemisms for masturbation are my favourite. "Flick the bean, beat the beaver, clap the clit, paddle the pink…" Some of the greatest innovations in modern English!

 

[MillieDynamite]

I once had to teach an older friend that girls do not get pregnant from anal sex unless something is seriously wrong inside, but they do get pregnant from vaginal sex. She'd been refusing to have anal and would only have vaginal and her fucking boyfriend knew why and didn't correct her. And I wish I could say that only happened once. Yay for religious bigots preventing proper sex education! (Yes, we had a higher than average teen pregnancy rate.)

If that wasn't so sad, it would be funny.

 

[NotWise]

I may be totally off base, but wasn’t the term linked to LBJ (literally) swinging his dick around in the White House?

The use of "Johnson" to refer to the penis dates back to England by 1863. I think Etymology Online was the source for that. "Dr. Johnson" is also used, and "Johnson" may just be a shortening of that. One article I looked at implied that "Dr. Johnson" was Dr. Samuel Johnson. The famous Dr. Samuel Johnson lived from 1709 to 1784.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I waver between laughing about it and being irrationally angry about it.

When I wasn't the "Witch who got kicked out of church," I was the "Girl who knows all the sex stuff." I don't know which label was worse socially, but at least with the witch thing people kept their distance from me.

Well the best revenge is Living Well. Um, that's a saying, not one I necessarily think is accurate. The issue with revenge is, it hurts the one doing the revenge often more than one receiving it. Yeah, I had people keep their distance from me because I was the unstable foster kid with a bad temper.

 

[KeithD]

I may be totally off base, but wasn’t the term linked to LBJ (literally) swinging his dick around in the White House?

Webster's puts the origin of this meaning of the word to 1863, which is just a bit before LBJ's time.

Ooops, didn't see that NotWise already gave this response.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Webster's puts the origin of this meaning of the word to 1863, which is just a bit before LBJ's time.

Ooops, didn't see that NotWise already gave this response.

The term has come into use again in Britain given our current Prime Minister, of whom Wikipedia and other biographies say "he has at least six children"...

On the subject of anatomical ignorance, I've lost count of how many adults I've had to explain to that tampons don't prevent you urinating. At least a quarter were women.

 

[ScrappyPaperDoodler]

Ahhh. So I was totally off base!

 

[lovecraft68]

There was a very good (may be in the Hall of fame now) baseball pitcher named:

Randy Johnson

The jokes wrote themselves on that made for porn name, but making it more fun was he stood 6'6" but even better than the big Johnson jokes...his nickname?

The Big Unit.

Yeah, they knew what they were doing

 

[Bramblethorn]

On that note I remember at some point "Johnson" was term for penis, but does anyone ever use that anymore? I don't think I've heard it in years.

There was a children's TV show here called "Johnson and Friends" (1990-1997). This is Johnson:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/johnsonandfriends/images/5/56/Johnson.png

By 1990 the expression was obscure enough for that to get past the TV company execs, but definitely not so obscure that we didn't snicker about it.

 

[lovecraft68]

There was a children's TV show here called "Johnson and Friends" (1990-1997). This is Johnson:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/johnsonandfriends/images/5/56/Johnson.png

By 1990 the expression was obscure enough for that to get past the TV company execs, but definitely not so obscure that we didn't snicker about it.

Yeah, that's like all those adult jokes they slip into Disney movies.

I get a kick out of how Marvel slipped the word quim into the Avengers movie. Loki calls Black Widow a mewling quim which of course translates to whining cunt, and it slipped past everyone. If you watch close enough Middleton even smiles a little after the line because he didn't think it would actually pass edit.

 

[MelissaBaby]

In My Fall and Rise, I described some aspects of prison life, such as the processing you go through when you go in and when you came out, the rules and regulations, how the inmate economy functions, etc.

There was a surprising amount of interest in it. Of course, it may have just been playing into some people's women in prison fantasies. I did get one email from a reader complaining that I had not described being shackled in enough detail.

 

[PennameWombat]

One place that really sticks out is I joined the local author's association, 350 members but maybe a couple dozen show up at the monthly meetings. I'm the only erotica author there-I'm the black sheep

But when I talk to them and hear them talk and see how they act I find myself wondering if some of them have ever had sex at all.

This caused me to think of sex in SF&F. And I don't mean here, in the SF&F (and related) categories, but in the 'mainstream.'

My introduction to SF&F was via LoTR and much of the "Golden Age" SF. In all of these, the very idea of, uh, sex, sexual attraction, etc., seemed to give the authors, readers, critics and everyone else a bad case of the vapors. "Show me to my fainting couch!" Which is why all of the claims of "Dangerous Visions," the anthology edited by Harlan Ellison (and its sequel), being so groundbreaking are based.

Now. While it's not, quite the Golden Age, I don't think SF&F has ever really grown out of this. A couple of years ago I attended a local workshop, specifically because the instructor was a published (nowhere near A-list, but published) SF&F author and editor (day job is teaching). And given I've run into writer's groups and such where SF&F was considered quaint, at best, and idiotic at worst, I was happy about this.

But. I made a comment about having done some SF&F that edged along the erotica boundary that did not go over well. Then, in a short story I did for the workshop, my 20 something male PoV character agreed to be interviewed by a female radio reporter (who was actually a disguised demon) because he found her very attractive and her tee shirt was specifically chosen to, ah, show off her assets (folks, she was a demon looking for men on the streets of Chicago! She wore tight jeans and the tee, which had her station's logo on it. She was interviewing passersby the evening of June 5, 2006 (yeah... 6/6/6 the next day ) so the morning drive-time show would hopefully have amusing clips to play. (True as far as it went but that was her cover story for wandering around talking to (mostly) men. The demons had a plan to open a gate the next day to, oh, unleash hell, and she was looking for tasty souls and possible allies.)

There was, oh, a fair amount of harrumphing from the instructor (female) and some of the other attendees (and, I was at least two decades older than the next oldest, and closer to four older than a couple, including the young woman who was the other one seemingly most upset about my very light innuendo!) But... "I think your erotica muse was coming out there." Maybe they just found me a dirty old man...

A couple of weeks later after the last session (it was one night a week, eight weeks), most of us attendees went to a local pub. I learned that the young woman who'd most commented on my work had a sideline as a stripper. Not that I cared, but I found it odd given her comments on my story, since the way she described it, she liked stripping, it wasn't she was forced into it.

 

[LAHomedog]

On that note I remember at some point "Johnson" was term for penis, but does anyone ever use that anymore? I don't think I've heard it in years.

It's used in movies on occasion mostly by older characters. In "Working Girl" one of the fathers says, "keep your Johnson in your pants" at a meeting.

 

[Djmac1031]

My biggest fear is to create a character who does a job I know nothing about lol.

I've cautiously dipped my toes in that water anyway, but try to keep job descriptions to a minimum unless more info is needed, and do my research if I have to.