Thursday, October 29, 2009

Sexy synonyms?

The human race never fails to surprise me. It comes up with so many different words for the same thing. And more often than not it is about, yes, the reproductive system. Yes the reproductive system as in copulation as in mating as in breeding. There you go, that's four words for the same thing. Is that necessary? I'm not so sure. Why have four words describing the same thing when it could have been used to describe something else? Perhaps it makes for a rich language, but then there are even more words to describe this 'thing', coupling, pairing, conjugation, union. Oh and making love, which case I have a hard time understanding. How do you 'make' love? Love is such an intangible thing, does mating make love? Or does love make mating? But that's the furthest nice girls go, they go to all these words to describe something summed up so easily as 'sex'. So easy, yet somehow, somewhere, someone has gone to great lengths to come up with such a variety of words. Perhaps they were prudish; it really seems like it. So what do these nice girls say, oh honey let's make love? That sounds like something out of Browning's and Keats' poetry. Let's have sex? No that sounds rude by nice girls' standards. So what is it nice girls say? Maybe they don't say anything or whip out their thermometer to see just how fertile they are. Oh God what a spoilsport. At the rate the world seems to be going, sexual intercourse could be deemed as a violation of privacy, worse, a true tangible invasion. And I thought girls had it rough, it's worse for men. Thankfully I'm no nice girl, I don't own a fertility thermometer, rubbers taste foul no matter the flavouring. Do I want to actually taste strawberry milkshake at that point? No, and forget about coitus interruptus. And that's because it's a killjoy, and I like joyful. So just getting down to it, going down on it, works fine for me. Because the dictionary might have plenty of words for the 'it'. But I have more. Makes me word-richer. Take the bitch's word for it.