What words to use.

[UncleWayne]

When writing a story or reading one. What words and sentences don’t you like to use or read.
Do you prefer to use pussy or cunt or a combination of the two.
What other terms do you prefer using.

 

[Apisto42]

Depends on the characters and the setting. All words are appropriate in the right place.

It would be odd to read a sentence from a straight laced matron screaming “Fuck my dirty cunt.” Without ever telling why she decided to use those terms.

But setup properly, it might make perfect sense.

 

[tomlitilia]

I find "and" is useful. "But" is also a favorite.

 

[SimonDoom]

I use both the P and C words. I like to mix it up. And, like Tomlitilia, I use "and" and "but" a whole lot. Conjunction junction, baby.

I tend to shy away from campy euphemisms like "steaming fuck hole" or "throbbing man meat."

One word I never use: "utilize." Hate that word. "Use" is always better, in my opinion.

 

[Apisto42]

I was in a steaming fuck hole of a jungle trying to position myself the best way possible to utilize the meager fan that was all I had to blow some cooler air on my throbbing man meat.

 

[SamScribble]

I like to use simple words - including the simple word cunt. But some of my characters have more elaborate vocabularies.

 

[UncleWayne]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

Recently a female told me, I actually don't like the word 'pussy' or 'cunt'. But I am comfortable reading when 'pussy' is used. The word 'cunt' is just down right nasty and I think most women feel the same.
Another said. "cunt" I find to be a very brash and crude word, and certainly quite demeaning when used and I try and avoid its use at all cost.

I tend to over use the word cunt in my stories and have recently tried using pussy instead. I suspose it depends on who is reading the story and if there male or female.

 

[Kantarii]

I use the “C” word sparingly. I let characters, mostly the antagonist or villain, use it for the obvious reasons of moving the readers feelings towards or away from the character. Never do I use the “C”word in casual dialogue or uttered by the protagonist or hero/heroine - ever.
Kant

 

[SimonDoom]

I was in a steaming fuck hole of a jungle trying to position myself the best way possible to utilize the meager fan that was all I had to blow some cooler air on my throbbing man meat.

I'm triggered.

 

[Apisto42]

I'm triggered.

Yay! An author whose blog I follow once posted a challenge to submit a one sentence start of a novel that could hook a reader. I feel like I have finally done so many years later.

“Cunt.” Not a bad word in and of itself. While I agree that it generally has negative connotations, my feelings towards it are mixed. I had one lover who was very classy in public, but she loved to say “cunt” in private. So I have fond memories of it. There’s no reason to not use it in a story involving two loving people if you set the scene around it. It was kind of like by her using it, she owned it.

 

[Alice_Rosaleen]

A cunt's just a pussy with attitude ;-)

 

[Handley_Page]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

Recently a female told me, I actually don't like the word 'pussy' or 'cunt'. But I am comfortable reading when 'pussy' is used. The word 'cunt' is just down right nasty and I think most women feel the same.
Another said. "cunt" I find to be a very brash and crude word, and certainly quite demeaning when used and I try and avoid its use at all cost.

I tend to over use the word cunt in my stories and have recently tried using pussy instead. I suspose it depends on who is reading the story and if there male or female.

A lot depends upon the 'character' of the character you describe.
Where a gentle lover might use 'pussy' to a receptive lady, a more brutal man might use 'cunt'; This also applies to the grounding of the female.

 

[RetroFan]

It depends on what sort of story I'm writing. I often just use vagina. For example, I'm writing a story set in 1912 at the moment, and the only term I'll be using is vagina as other terms such as 'cunt', 'twat' or even 'pussy' would be out of place.

I like to write stories set in places such as England and Australia because then I can mix the term 'fanny' in from time to time.

 

[oggbashan]

It depends on what sort of story I'm writing. I often just use vagina. For example, I'm writing a story set in 1912 at the moment, and the only term I'll be using is vagina as other terms such as 'cunt', 'twat' or even 'pussy' would be out of place.

I like to write stories set in places such as England and Australia because then I can mix the term 'fanny' in from time to time.

Twat was in use in England from 1660, so why not use it in 1912?

A useful timeline...

https://io9.gizmodo.com/two-timelines-of-slang-for-genitalia-from-1250-through-1157205966

I don't need it. I have several dictionaries of historic slang, and the full Oxford English Dictionary. I can prove first use in print for any word if I have time to lug the heavy dictionaries around.

Or look up "etymology of (INSERT WORD)".

 

[RetroFan]

Twat was in use in England from 1660, so why not use it in 1912?

The characters are wealthy Americans, I don't think they would use that word. Anyway, it doesn't really come up in practice, its more a case of a young man fantasizing over his fiancée and feeling bad about his undignified thoughts about her. No sex before marriage back then.

 

[oggbashan]

The characters are wealthy Americans, I don't think they would use that word. Anyway, it doesn't really come up in practice, its more a case of a young man fantasizing over his fiancée and feeling bad about his undignified thoughts about her. No sex before marriage back then.

No sex before marriage in 1912?

My extensive family history research shows that was untrue. It was much more dangerous because there were no effective contraceptive methods and social attitudes to unmarried mothers were harsh - but there were many marriages followed by births within too short a gap.

 

[psiberzerker]

Recently a female told me, I actually don't like the word 'pussy' or 'cunt'.

Well, don't call them "Females." That makes you sound like a Ferengi.

 

[NotWise]

It depends on what sort of story I'm writing. I often just use vagina. For example, I'm writing a story set in 1912 at the moment, and the only term I'll be using is vagina as other terms such as 'cunt', 'twat' or even 'pussy' would be out of place.

I like to write stories set in places such as England and Australia because then I can mix the term 'fanny' in from time to time.

I think 'cunt' has been around forever. 'Quiff' is another term that might be used, but that usage changed from a Victorian term for vagina to a 1920's term for 'cheap slut.'

There is a time line of sexual slang compiled by Jonathon Green from his own dictionary of English slang and published as several html pages. You can find it on Google by looking up "Jonathon Green sexual slang 1351" The 1351 date is the beginning of the timeline, and it places the gizmodo result at the top of the list.

 

[Apisto42]

From an article in glamour of all places:

Turns out other slang terms for vaginas date back to as far as 1250, when the first recorded use of the word cunt appeared. It was likely an English street word that came from the very unfortunately named Gropecuntlane, a province once known for its sex workers. While the Old Norse root of the word is somewhat fuzzy, and the person who directly deserves credit for coining the word cunt is unknown, it’s just one example of how euphemisms for genitalia are no new thing.

 

[psiberzerker]

I like to differentiate my characters, and one of the ways I do it is linguistically. Accents, personal phrases they use, it could be the difference between saying "So, anyway," and "Anyways..."

So anyway, this thread is a wealth of women's personal preferences on their lady parts. Also, various euphemisms for the Vejayjay. If you haven't already noticed, different women prefer different words, at different times. To her Ob/Gyn, she's probably going to say Vagina.

I prefer Vulva. Some of my girlfriends say "Suck that pussy!" when they're being dirty, and "Put it inside me," when they're breathless in anticipation. Girls tend to indicate the general area indirectly, like "Between my legs," because parents, and faculty giving assemblies on Stranger Danger said things like "In an inappropriate way, that made you feel uncomfortable" about their private parts.

As a writer, who's saying it? Is she going to say "My sex," or is she trying to be romantic, and flourid with purple prose like "Love tunnel?" Is she giving birth? Is it some more specific organ of her general urogenital system?

What does she call her clit? Her inner labia, her outer labia? I think it's a pretty good sign, of a pretty bad writer if all he knows is 1 word for "Pussy." In fact, it's fairly reliable evidence of someone who wouldn't know what to do with it, if he ever had one, close enough he could smell it.

 

[SimonDoom]

I think 'cunt' has been around forever. 'Quiff' is another term that might be used, but that usage changed from a Victorian term for vagina to a 1920's term for 'cheap slut.'

There is a time line of sexual slang compiled by Jonathon Green from his own dictionary of English slang and published as several html pages. You can find it on Google by looking up "Jonathon Green sexual slang 1351" The 1351 date is the beginning of the timeline, and it places the gizmodo result at the top of the list.

Chaucer uses an early version of it in The Miller's Tale, written around 1390: "privately he caught her by the queynte . . ."

If it's good enough for Chaucer . . .

 

[psiberzerker]

I still love that Loki called Nat a "Mewling Quimm," and that didn't get cut out. Yeah, they have a 1 "Shit!" limit at that rating, but honestly, Loki wouldn't call her a "Cunt." He called her a "Quimm."

 

[NotWise]

What does she call her clit? Her inner labia, her outer labia? I think it's a pretty good sign, of a pretty bad writer if all he knows is 1 word for "Pussy." In fact, it's fairly reliable evidence of someone who wouldn't know what to do with it, if he ever had one, close enough he could smell it.

A few years ago I did some research (umm well, I Googled) on how women describe their own private parts. I found a couple blog topics on exactly that question and a few erudite discussions. It seems that -- porn aside -- women often avoid making specific references to their parts. It's all 'down there,' which is pretty understandable when you think that they have to go out of their way just to see what's down there.

One thing I can agree with is that different women use different words, and some words ('cunt' specifically) can be polarizing.

As a result I often avoid using a lot of terms for the girl parts. Some variety is good, and I probably use more the clitoris than for any other, but that's just to avoid repetition.

Decades ago National Lampoon (I think it was) printed drawings of a naked man and woman with their body parts sized according to the number of English words they could find for each part. Tits, dick and butt were very large.

 

[psiberzerker]

'cunt' specifically can be polarizing.

Yeah, I'd say second only to "Twat" for being offensive. Considering the fact that either can be used as an insult for the whole woman. Whereas "pussy" is used to insult men. (Okay, in England "cunt" is a gender indiscriminate insult.)

Tits, dick and butt were very large.

Probably, because they couldn't find a man that could draw a vulva at National Lampoon. Also, the technical term for that kind of drawing is Humonculus.

 

[NotWise]

Yeah, I'd say second only to "Twat" for being offensive. Considering the fact that either can be used as an insult for the whole woman. Whereas "pussy" is used to insult men. (Okay, in England "cunt" is a gender indiscriminate insult.)

'Quiff' intrigues me. I mentioned it earlier. It was a Victorian phrase for vagina, but by the 1920s it came to mean a cheap slut. It sounds innocuous to me, but if you call a woman a cheap slut by using a slang term for her 'honey pot', then it should be highly offensive.

To me (and I think to my wife) 'twat' is not as offensive as 'cunt' in the same usage, maybe because it sounds more playful. I once had a girlfriend who would refer to herself as a 'twat' but she would never use 'cunt.'

I don't know why 'quiff' fell out of use. I think in the UK it came to describe a hairdo. I have no clue how that change came about.