Question about the word 'Sag'

[Smuttyandfun]

It's literally impossible to please every reader. No matter how carefully you choose your words, you'll still get the odd comment about someone having an issue over something you wrote. Just write what you to write, and don't stress over the odd reader who likes to pick apart whatever they're reading.

 

[JuanaSalsa]

I like the word sag, sagging... Sounds fine to me. I don't understand people getting hung up on imperfect bodies as if it's some sort of insult. No one has a perfect body. That's life and it's fantastic to recognize that even people with imperfect bodies can enjoy and revel in sex.

Other words I like for large, less than firm, breasts:

Pendulous.
Swaying.
Soft and alluring.
Heavy.
Oblong.
Floppy.
Squishy.

My breasts, at this point in my life, began to remind me of two of those bags that they put goldfish in at the pet store, as if some maniacal god had stapled them to my chest, letting the semi-full bags of fluid hang and swing as I walked, inconveniently. Still, I smiled with satisfaction as their hypnotic motion fascinated the attention of indiscreet men, and the occasional woman, too.

I stared at her tits, incredulous at the they way they moved. The way they jiggled and bounced with each of her long, excited, strides as she surged to greet me. Had it been so many years, truly, since I'd last set my eyes on her? So long that time could be measured in the changing movement of her boobs, in the changing position of her nipples? She finally made it to me and her pillowing mammory glands pressed into me, stirring up all the same old feelings.

 

[MsNatalie99]

Sounds to me like the commenter's boobs hang low.
Perhaps they wobble to or fro.
Maybe she can tie them in a knot, or tie them in a bow.
Wonder if she can throw them over her shoulder like a continental Soldier.

Personally, I think that the commenter was just too sensitive. Perhaps they're self-conscious of their own low hang. I wouldn't worry about just one comment, but that's just my opinion.

 

[jehoram]

I see nothing wrong with using the word "sagging" to describe breasts that, as one girlfriend of mine once remarked, "fail the pencil test." I notice that some female authors describe their characters as being concerned that their breasts are starting to sag, but these characters learn to accept the condition and lose their concerns about it. And that's what some of my characters do, as well.

If you hang out at an nudist resort or look at the pictures in National Geographic, you'll find that sagging breasts are the default. Bras are engineered to hide that feature, but in the real world, I don't think that sagging detracts from the woman's beauty at all. In fact, I kind of like to see them flop around, especially when the breasts are small.

Strangely, the picture threads on this forum that show the "ideal" or "perfect" form almost never portray a breast that sags, which may be why so many people think that there's something inferior about it.

 

[Auden James]

Strangely, the picture threads on this forum that show the "ideal" or "perfect" form almost never portray a breast that sags, which may be why so many people think that there's something inferior about it.

You're not serious, are you?

 

[jehoram]

You're not serious, are you?

Yup. But one man's (or woman's) ideal is not everybody else's ideal. I guess I deviate from the norm in this, as in other respects.

 

[Auden James]

I guess I deviate from the norm in this, as in other respects.

Yup, I suppose you do.

 

[PlanetaryNebula]

wanted to convey she's not a young woman with firm breasts but has a bit of maturity brought about by childbirth and age.

You just did a beautiful job right there describing tits that sag!
It really is only a descriptive word, but I think it comes with a negative connotation, especially in todays world when perfect tits support themselves. I wish I had perfect tits! But they do indeed…. Sag (cringes). And where as I wouldn’t be offended by the use of the word sag, especially about a story character for fucks sake, I don’t think i would have a pretty picture of said character in my mind.
Just a humble reader though. I make no claims to know anything!

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

Instead of sag: Advance. Surge. Seek new horizons.

 

[Athalia]

I see nothing wrong about using the word "sag."

I'm in my sixties now. My breasts sag... not much, since they've never been very big, but they're definitely lower than they were forty years ago. I don't give them any thought. They're me.

When I see how many women use brassieres to mold their breasts into shapes that conform to some ideal of perfection (usually a man's ideal), I am a little sad. But that's the way it is for us, forever making our lips a different color, dyeing our hair a different color, wearing high heels, all to make us more attractive and alluring. And it somehow makes us feel more feminine, like the first time we wore high heels and a low-cut gown on prom night, letting the world know we were "mature."

 

[soflabbwlvr]

I can't say if I have ever used sag or saggy in a story. I have used "heavy", "pendulous", and "no longer perky."

 

[Duleigh]

Well used word, it's a lot better than droop

 

[Smuttyandfun]

I can't say if I have ever used sag or saggy in a story. I have used "heavy", "pendulous", and "no longer perky."

I prefer the sound of these, too.

 

[tenyari]

People read themselves in things. The commenter likely felt it as a statement about an aspect of their own anatomy they were sensitive over.

If you get into a conversation that somehow discusses a charged subject like race, sex, or gender - you will very quickly find that people who match a demographic of someone mentioned in that conversation will 'place themselves in there' and perceive an attack. Sometimes they are correct to do so - when the conversation is trying to validate a generalization. But other times you might say something like "a green guy was checking out my boobs" - and then a green guy reading that thinks you had an issue with green guys.

So when I see that comment about sag, the commentator might have read it as "what the heck is your problem with a woman who's boobs don't look like an 18-year old perky porn starlet?" based on their own inner monologue.

There's really nothing you can do to avoid getting caught in that trap.

 

[Athalia]

People read themselves in things. The commenter likely felt it as a statement about an aspect of their own anatomy they were sensitive over.

You have a point there. The "women of a certain age" in many of my stories reflect on the fact that their breasts are no longer as "perky" as they used to be. There's a certain air of wistfulness, the way men reflect that their waistlines aren't as trim as they used to be. It's another indication that they're getting older, which is not usually a cause for satisfaction in either sex. But like myself (see above), they don't dwell on it. Instead, they use what they have left.