Some questions

[phoenix6666]

Why do they categorize relationships by months? Like if you're into the mature relationships, they call it May-December relationships. And there are other types for other relationships too. Why? How do the months play in? I'm just curious.

Also, what exactly is the loving wives category? How is that different from....any of the others?

 

[Ezzy]

The sayings like a May to December relationship come about as if you are looking at the whole of a human life to be a year, so that we would all be born one second after the start of the year, and die of old age in the last second on New Years Eve.

Looking at a human life this way, one month is like one twelfth of a human life, or about 6 years 8 months real time, (allowing for an eighty year lifespan as being average).

May is the 5th month, so 5 x 6 2/3rd years = about 33 1/3rd year old.
December is the 12th month, so it is from the age of 73 1/3rd – 80 years old.

So when you see a thirty something year old with a seventy something year old, you are seeing that May to December romance.

 

[EJFan]

Also, what exactly is the loving wives category? How is that different from....any of the others?

i'm not sure i follow your question... other than pointing out that "loving wives" stories are about married women, while other categories are... well... what they say they are... incest/taboo, lesbian, fetish, gay male, bdsm, etc.

i guess you could have a lesbian story in the loving wives category if it involved at least one loving wife.

this is one o' those questions that's either so simple it's confusing or it's incredibly difficult and poorly worded. of course, the third option is that i'm drunk at the moment. can ya get a buzz off o' protein powder?

 

[LadyJeanne]

Ezzy's definition is good, although I think most people don't actually calculate out the years - May-Dec has pretty much become a catch-all for any relationship where one of the people is significantly older than the the other.

Loving Wives as a category is mostly cuckhold stories, either willing or unwilling. It also includes group sex type stories where the loving wife stars (again the husband may be willing or unwilling). It's a tough category to write for as everyone's expectations of it are different for the category.

 

[Ezzy]

Ezzy's definition is good, although I think most people don't actually calculate out the years - May-Dec has pretty much become a catch-all for any relationship where one of the people is significantly older than the the other.

Psssssst! Ezzy was kidding. He was just showing how it worked out as an arithmetical calculation. It was the use of simple math, to sarcastically elucidate about the theorem he was expounding about the etymological and numerological origins of the phrase!

 

[phoenix6666]

Another question

What is this word 'cuckhold'? I get that it refers to a wife but is it slang? Derrogatory or no?

 

[krazeekat]

is it cuckhold or cuckold?

 

[Ezzy]

What is this word 'cuckhold'? I get that it refers to a wife but is it slang? Derrogatory or no?

cuck·old Audio pronunciation of "cuckold" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kkld, kk-)
n.

A man married to an unfaithful wife.


tr.v. cuck·old·ed, cuck·old·ing, cuck·olds

To make a cuckold of.


[Middle English cokewald, from Anglo-Norman *cucuald, from cucu, the cuckoo, from Vulgar Latin *cucclus, from Latin cuclus.]

Word History: The allusion to the cuckoo on which the word cuckold is based may not be appreciated by those unfamiliar with the nesting habits of certain varieties of this bird.

The female of some Old World cuckoos lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, leaving them to be cared for by the resident nesters. This parasitic tendency has given the female bird a figurative reputation for unfaithfulness as well.

Hence in Old French we find the word cucuault, composed of cocu, “cuckoo, cuckold,” and the pejorative suffix -ald and used to designate a husband whose wife has wandered afield like the female cuckoo.

An earlier assumed form of the Old French word was borrowed into Middle English by way of Anglo-Norman. Middle English cokewold, the ancestor of Modern English cuckold, is first recorded in a work written around 1250.

 

[LadyJeanne]

Psssssst! Ezzy was kidding. He was just showing how it worked out as an arithmetical calculation. It was the use of simple math, to sarcastically elucidate about the theorem he was expounding about the etymological and numerological origins of the phrase!

At least one of us has a sense of humor...mine must have been in need of caffeine. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

 

[Ezzy]

At least one of us has a sense of humor...mine must have been in need of caffeine. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

It is a very valid excuse; I use it all the time myself; well until I have had a surfeit of caffeine!

 

[amraam840]

Caffine will be my downfall...