Happy Monday, everyone. (Yes, I know that’s an oxymoron for most of us…) Hope if you’re in the US you got your taxes/extension filed.
Today’s question of the day: I know language is subjective, but what’s the worst thing you’ve ever seen male and/or female genitalia called in a romance/erotica book?
Feel free to chime in below. 🙂
Monday Mish-Mash QOTD: He did what to her what with his what?
The pink taco – Ugh!
I just don’t like CUNextTuesday! Yuck!
This is going to sound ridiculous but I HATE when I’m getting into a steamy scene and it’s ruined by the words penis or vagina. I feel like I’m back in 8th grade health class! I’m reading a romance! Sheesh. Don’t be scared to get dirrrrty 🙂
Although, I do gag a little when I read about anything ‘dripping’ ‘honey’. LOL.
Read a book a while back that grossly over used the word honey. (not talking about the kind that comes in the little bear) I almost stopped reading it all together! Then I made it into a drinking game. I took a sip every time ‘the word’ was used…..
Funny thing; a bottle of riesling later and the word didn’t bother me as much. lol
Her peach – never looked at the fruit the same way 😀 🙁
Lisex
The worst one for me was when the book said slamming into her love box. I kept seeing a glove box in a car.
Honestly it’s quite a turn off when a writer uses ‘penis’ because, for me, it’s scientific and the word peenissss just isn’t romantic or sexy. I’m probably odd though. I don’t even mind cheesy names for it. Lol
In the past I have not been one to use ‘bad language’ but I now know that on occasion a well placed word or two can let people know just how upset/furious one is even more so when you have the reputation for not using such words!
As for CUNextTuesday… I have just finished reading another authors book where the guy used it in terms of “your beautiful ..,” and when she startled he gave her a beautiful explanation of when such a word is okay and acceptable.. and I thought.. yeah I can accept that… similarly the F-bomb so over used at times generally and I dislike it very much when used as a term of abuse but between two people in a ‘hot’ moment then it is okay. So I guess it is all about context.
I too find vagina/penis a bit sharp, technical or scientific for a romance/erotic read.
I guess any word over used in a book would start to jar/irritate as one reads.
Both Charise Sinclair and E.L. James used “there” to refer to a vagina. It stopped me.