When You’re Busy Relating Better, What Do You Call “It”?
Yes we’re talking about sex, today!
There are so many terms that are used as euphemisms for sexual intercourse that one finds it hard to keep up really!
And I’m talking about terms that can be used in polite conversation. That is, if you can describe conversations that include talk of sexual intercourse as polite! That, of course, is a matter of opinion.
I remember in my first interview for a job in Assisted Reproductive Techology (IVF et al), I was asked about my ability to talk about sex with people without me or them feeling uncomfortable. My reply? Something about having three teenaged sons teaching me quite enough about how to conduct matter-of-fact conversations about sex!
Going Going Gone by Agent of Darkness on Flickr
So yes I probably talk about sex more often than most people without even considering using some coy terms! But I do adapt my terminology to the situation and the discussion.
Love-making, sex, intercourse, and others I won’t inflict on you!
But lots of couples have a pet name for it. It’s a bit like lots of people have pet names for their genitalia or for their partner’s genitalia! (Now, THAT I struggle to understand!)
It was reading SunnyMummyAus’s blog Sunny Mummy that got me me musing on pet names! Her choice is Marvin (if you read this you’ll understand)!
Of course your favourite euphemism will often betray your generation and/or your cultural heritage! Clearly Sunny Mummy Aus is an 80s chick!
In the interests of social history, science (or a good laugh), Pink Apple would like to ask you all to assist our research as we try to establish a list of names for “it”!
Our personal favourite comes from a couple of babyboomer radio announcers here in Melbourne! Grubby and DeeDee on Gold104 (Rock and Pop Classics). They call it “oofty magoofty”!
I like it because it has a kind of subtlety that the more literal terms seem to totally misunderstand! In fact it’s quite hard to know how to spell it as I’m convinced that there is no such term in modern English.
However “oofty magoofty” MUST head up this list – for no other reason than that it’s MY list!!
Now PLEASE people, don’t take this as an opportunity to be offensive! I’ll be monitoring this post and deleting anything unacceptable. And be creative! We all know what f*** means! And by the way, I’ll take the post down if it becomes an issue!
Pink Apple’s List Of Sex Euphemisms!
- Oofty Magoofty
- Horizontal Rumba
- Playing Hide the Sausage
- The Love Dance
- Banging
- Making Whoopie
- Hokey Pokey
- Rumpy Pumpy
- Marvin
- (your suggestion)
Thanks all and let’s get laughing! After all Relationships don’t have to be serious all the time!
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6 Responses to “When You’re Busy Relating Better, What Do You Call “It”?”
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LOL Great list!
With two pre-teens in the house we use “shnuggle”
Nope that’s not a typo – a snuggle is different to shnuggle, but snuggles can lead to shnuggle!
Love that one Heidi!
And you’re right when you’ve got tenneagers who belive it is obscene for anyone over 18 to be having sex, you do need a term that’s yours!!
having a bonk…
haha – great list! I don’t think we have a pet name, it’s more of a certain raise of eyebrow or touch…
There is a morning team on a radio station here in Brisbane that call it ‘special cuddles’.
Hi Chris,
What a fun list.
I thought I’d add something under the banner of social history and a good laugh and share something from old school Catholic Ireland, where “doing it” was commonly referred to by older generations as “the black act”!
Oh Maria – the Black Act! Despite being brought up in Irish Catholic cultured Australia back in the 50s – That’s a NEW One on me!!!
Sounds a bit like the “dark arts’ in Harry Potter!
Thanks Danielle I’d forgotten good old “bonking”. Can’t imagine how that one slipped past my initial list!
Karen “special cuddles” sounds suitably coy doesn’t it?
I also had an email from an old friend yesterday suggesting “the wild thing”!