Underneath the arches

[gauchecritic]

When you see a description of someone on all fours with an arched back is the picture that of the classic frightened cat? If so what is the opposite?

When your girl (or boy I suppose although I've never actually though about it) is face down with their bottom high and they make a concave back in order to facilitate entry. Is there a single descriptor for that concavity, other than concavity?

When she felt the tip touch her lips Carol instinctively arched her back aided by Denny’s hand between her shoulder blades

Can you make a verb of concave? ...instinctively concaved her back?

I can only think of 'dipped'. ...Carol instinctively dipped her back aided by Denny’s hand...

Is there another way to get the idea across?

 

[neonlyte]

Scooped might be nice - one of the alternative meanings is an opening to allow something to flow in.

 

[TheEarl]

Carol dropped her shoulders, arching her back to raise her bottom to him...?

The Earl

 

[gauchecritic]

Yeah, it's the 'arching' I'm concerned about The.

Now scooped I like. cheers Ne.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Personally, I use "arched" in either direction. "As Mary climaxed, she arched her back, ramming her pussy into my face one last time." When Mary felt his tongue on her ass cheeks, she arched her back, raising her hips and thrusting her ass toward the source of the pleasure."

 

[Katyusha]

When you see a description of someone on all fours with an arched back is the picture that of the classic frightened cat? If so what is the opposite?

When your girl (or boy I suppose although I've never actually though about it) is face down with their bottom high and they make a concave back in order to facilitate entry. Is there a single descriptor for that concavity, other than concavity?

When she felt the tip touch her lips Carol instinctively arched her back aided by Denny’s hand between her shoulder blades

Can you make a verb of concave? ...instinctively concaved her back?

I can only think of 'dipped'. ...Carol instinctively dipped her back aided by Denny’s hand...

Is there another way to get the idea across?

I tend to use the word "arch" to mean concave...I've never seen an image of a scared cat in my head when I read that. "He started pumping me hard, thrusting that large cock of his in as deep as he could, and I arched my back in sheer ecstasy..." something to that effect.

Generally when I want to describe the "arched back" as in a scared cat, I tend to use the word "bent" rather than arched. "...his shoulders were hunched, his back bent under the load of the sorrow he carried over the loss of his one and only love..."

To me...the word "arched" has a different connotation for people than it does for animals.

 

[3113]

Sticky question. You're quite right that when a cat "arches" his back, it's ilke a bridge, arching up and over. And though the word "arched" can be used in either context, I tend to agree that when I think of arching, I expect to see that rise, that bridge as it were. Either the spine has to curve up, or the tummy. Which is what makes Katyusha's example work, the guy "arches" his back to thrust something out.

It works less well if the person is one their belly and lifting head/ass to form a dip in the spine.

How about "bowed" as in bending a bow? Or just bent. That could really work either way.

 

[Alessia Brio]

How about "bowed" as in bending a bow? Or just bent. That could really work either way.

I like "bowed"

 

[gauchecritic]

Bowed is good but what's putting me off that is that I read 'bowed' as in curtsie.

 

[Alessia Brio]

Bowed is good but what's putting me off that is that I read 'bowed' as in curtsie.

Good point. I very rarely curtsey during sex.

 

[gauchecritic]

When she felt the tip touch her lips Carol instinctively curtsied aided by Denny’s hand between her shoulder blades.

Must be a royalty thing.

 

[Katyusha]

When she felt the tip touch her lips Carol instinctively curtsied aided by Denny’s hand between her shoulder blades.

Must be a royalty thing.

<laughing>

How 'bout something along these lines?

"When she felt the tip touch her lips, Carol instinctively tilted her head back and leaned into the warm hand Denny had placed between her shoulder blades."

 

[Boxlicker101]

Bowed is good but what's putting me off that is that I read 'bowed' as in curtsie.

I agree that "bow" reminds me to much of a person bowing before royalty, etc. Personally, I use "arch" describing a person pushing his or her ass or pussy toward the source of the pleasure. (cock, dildo, tongue, whatever) I use the word quite often in describing a person who is starting to cum, whatever position they happen to be in.

I don't like "bent" because I want to describe a curving line. I will continue to use "arch" but if you want something else, how about "arc" which is a curved line. "Arced" would be the verb.

 

[Boxlicker101]

When she felt the tip touch her lips Carol instinctively curtsied aided by Denny’s hand between her shoulder blades.

Must be a royalty thing.

Maybe it wasn't Carol and Denny. Maybe it was Monica and Bill.