"Bundle of nerves" as a euphemism for the cl*toris feels WAY too clinical and anatomical in the like... cadaver anatomy lab way. It's such a dry description and dry is NOT WHAT WE WANT. (Edited for clarity.)
Isn't that just meaning being very nervous? I've never read it in a sex scene as such, so I could be wrong. But as a reference to feeling nervous, I think it works. As something sexy... not so much. XD
"Trying to impress a master swordsman, eh? Get him to plant his enchanted sword in your cave of wonders? Do battle with the fearsome dragon within?" "What the hell is the dragon in that metaphor?" "Chlamydia." "Aaaaaaand we're done here."
@@bookswithike3256 see this is where it’s acceptable. In a literal parody. Also sword art online abridged is great. Thank you for reminding me of it, I will now go watch it again.
Okay but I once read 'hard steel wrapped in soft velvet' in a fanfiction and it actually kinda worked because the character basically spoke and thought in purple prose, so it was in completely something the character would and didn't take me out of the moment as much as it should. I haven't however seen that type of description work in any other setting.
Love shaft, python, summer sausage, salami. Have to get into my way-back machine and revisit my early teen years. Oh yea, Meat Lance, looks like I'm back to weapons, lol. This video was hilarious to me. Thx
I think there was an episode of "Oxventure" where they came up with some fantastic ones along those lines. Edit: the episode was "Heir Superiority," and they were brainstorming names for a newly invented foodstuff that we know as "hot dogs"
Impaled just reminds me of Olaf getting stabbed with an icicle and going, “oh look at that, I’ve been impaled.” Furthest thing from hot (unless you’re into that).
I had a mouth full of tea when the quivering thing started, I almost no longer had a mouth full of tea but, a lap top full of tea. Also I've never seen quivering used for the butt b4 ... Shlong is my fave for the meat stick I think someone describing a woman being turned on as " a river between my legs" will haunt me forever, I know they were a new writer, and it definitely read as their first time writing a spicy scene, but then the scene turned to a more non con scene and just made everything worse.
I very much enjoy A Song of Ice and Fire, but when George R.R. Martin used the phrase "she was sopping wet down there," I just start laughing out loud. Not sexy.
Jenna--I think I may have the "most horrible synonym" for the clitoris actually read in erotica beat. How about "slimy pearl?" I actually read that illegal verbal combination multiple times within ostensibly "erotic" tales. Since erotica is supposed to turn up the heat as far as the reader is concerned, reading something like "slimy pearl" in an intimate love scene arguably has a chilling, if not a totally freezing, effect on the entire work!
I haven't checked out your videos in a while and I've got to say I am GRATEFUL for the changes. I have autism and the POP sound effect was so unpleasant that I tried navigating around where I expected pops. Using a gentle DING, while not perfect, is much gentler on my nervous system. THANK YOU. As to the topic, I haven't had to guts to write a sex scene yet. I've written before and after. At this point in my writing journey, I'm happy leaving details to the reader's imagination.
I will admit to being a fan of "impale," but I also tend toward erotic horror, so the unsettling connotations are very much intentional. By using words more associated with battle than love, I'm attempting to convey that the protagonist at least subconsciously realizes they're in danger. That's a very specific vibe, though. It has no business in a sweet and fluffy scene.
It's not a term for anatomy, but I read a romance novel that kept using the word copulation for sex. I'm sorry, that' got to be the least sexy word you could've picked
I have one friend who has English as their second language, and while writing at one point, they were very fixated on the word fornication in terms of sex and I felt so bad because I giggled and instantly got turned off every time they used it in their writing-
@star-boltlover9609 1, It doesn't mean swing. It means to move up and down smoothly. 2, Even if it did mean to swing, swinging means to move back and forth or side to side. If undulate sounds bad to your ears, that's fair enough, but I hope I don't have to explain to you how either of those described motions are related to sex.
The one that gets me is when nipples "pebble." When I think of pebbles, I think of tiny flat round gray hard rocks. I've had 40+ years of experience with aforementioned body part, and maybe I've been doing something wrong, but I've never known them to shrink, flatten, or turn round or gray when aroused. Yes, I know I take things too literally at times. I also tend to visualize things literally as well. It can be a curse and also make reading sex scenes very entertaining.
I completely agree with the term “impaled”. It’s gross, it feels violating, and the only way it should be used is to describe the mating process of bed bugs.
I loved this video, very funny. Was relieved to find that all the words listed I've also turned my nose up at. Would love a video discussing your thoughts on how to go about writing sex scenes well, and what approach to words and descriptions you approve of.
I've been following you for over half a decade, Jenna, and this video is among my all-time favorites. The Butters commentary is awesome, and for the record my least-favorite "spicy" euphemism was "large, swollen man-root." 🤣🤣
Got a couple more for ya *cough cough* Ahem. And I quote: •long thick weapon of mass destruction •tight wet wonderland •magical wand that casts org**m spells •milking •invade me I have read all, and I’m ready to bleach my eyes
I recently came across a German author who collected basically the worst sex scenes he read and published them. His conclusion was basically that it is really funny how authors can accurately describe a disgusting murder scene, a beautiful landscape or an overcrowded, anxiety-inducing shopping mall, but more often than not they incredibly fail at writing about sex, something most people spend way more time thinking about.
She's not a romance writer, but I think Ursula K. Le Guin does sex scenes really well in her books by being almost completely non-euphemistic. Granted, those scenes usually serve different purposes than they do in romance books.
Whu... I thought "mounds" was in reference to boobs, especially if plural. How do you fondle the relatively flat skin above the gonads. There's, like... Nothing to grab there but pubic hair, and pulling on that would hurt!
This video actually makes me feel better about my writing! I don’t write those types of stories often, but when I do apparently my word choices are Jenna approved.
Props to anyone who manages to write anything spicy and it not sound painfully awkward. It’s almost like the subject matter itself will make most words sound off putting. And I say this as someone who likes reading this stuff hahah
I agree with all points. I'm so glad I'm not the only one suffering. My hated word is "core" in reference to the V. Makes me think of the center of an apple and I can't for the life of me understand why people are inserting fruit into their sexy scene.
I've mostly seen "nubs" in reference to nipples. What's your thoughts on that? Also, reading Chinese euphamisms for sex is so funny, because they need to get around censorship. Examples: "Dragon breathing white" (cumming) and "soldier breaking down her gate" Although, they were in a story that was written by someone who definitely does not have a lot of experience with men...
I suppose it depends on the consistency of how the rest of the story is narrated, but I believe that an effective elicitation of a feeling is vastly superior to an accurate description of what actually happens. In this sense, I agree that bad metaphors are the worst, since they fail at conveying the right feelings as well as at providing an accurate description. I'd kind of support the notion that less is more, attention-wise at least. If, however, Cartland's "they kissed and touched the divine" feels inadequate - even though her focus is clearly on the lead-in, and she acknowledged correctly the ultimate limitations of the medium - I'd focus on either (a) what goes on in the mind of only one of the characters or on (b) the dynamics of their physical movement, leaving a sort of camera obscura around areas where a description would do disservice, which the reader is supposed to interpret on their own within the context. Those would differ from (c) the clear, unambiguous, and clinically detached descriptions of normal narration. Specifically, example (a) would be equivalent to shutting the eyes during the most intense moments and having fantasies and associations accompany the sensation. Example (b): "X.'s knee dropped down on the cold gravel (i.e., if it's a rougher scene) / soft threads of the carpet, where one of their hands also found balance while their other hand moved slowly down the side of Y.'s body" - you know exactly what's happening from their position relative to each other, and - I assume that everyone's an adult here - I'd rather have the focus remain on the motions of their hand or head as if there's so much more to explore than exhaust the things to describe as if it happened under fluorescent lighting. Speaking of which, an opposite of the above, or example (c), would be providing an even description for the literal-minded, making no distinction between the ordinary and the special, the normal and the indescribable, as if the characters were completely jaded. A version of that with bad metaphors would be like a caveman describing their mundane existence. This is probably all amateur stuff for anyone who's written anything. I know what I like, though.
Oh my god THANK YOU- I absolutely despise the word pussy with my entire being. It feels... greasy. It’s wet, and not in a good way. It’s damp and slimy and just-just bad Also please please please drop the title of the big bouncing boobies book because I desperately want to read it with a specific friend of mine so we can laugh until we start choking One phrase I keep hearing is, “to the hilt,” in reference to a meat stick entering a hole. I might be the minority here, but I really don’t like it. I think it’s just because of how many times I’ve heard it now. It’s specifically the overuse of the word, “Hilt,” I’m pretty sure. “To the base,” would be fine for me, though I personally prefer, “Bottomed out,” and its various counterparts depending on tense. That’s just me though :0
1:38 "it's a delight" aaaaaand i've subscribed❤ What a wonderful way to learn how sex scenes in my not-native language should be written. Because dont just hit a "translate" button and hope for the best!
I don't do that many sex scenes, but when I do I try to avoid euphemism. It might come off as clinical sometimes, but at least it doesn’t come off as ridiculously lyrical.
"Gash" to describe a woman's nether region. I assume the whole area? Honestly, I am not sure. It gives me the heebie jeebies, and I do the brain equivalent of putting my fingers in my ears while saying la la la....
I think "mound" became a trendy term about ten years ago on what I will simply call "Sex Positive Podcasts." Literally never heard it in any other context. With sex scenes, I absolutely hate the words "Her sex" and "His manhood." Just... WTF man? The rest of the book has perfectly good descriptors, then it becomes a giggling schoolboy describing sex the way Steve Carell described a tit in The 40 Year Old Virgin.
You have a strong and admirable Australian spirit. This was very frank and part of a bigger conversation - labelling genitals appropriately is important for everyone, and books is a good start! My biggest complaint about spice in books is when its poorly executed. Putting scenes in that don't need to be there is made worse by fumbling around with word-choices. Its writing 1.01, be concise! A lot of smut scenes I have read lately (that have sent me firmly into the clean romance camp just to spare my eyes) seem like they were copy-pasted out of the back of a vintage stick magazine. "Dear Penthouse..." 🤮 Tacky!
Can we talk about how 83% of women prefer non penetration when it comes to sex, and yet most romance novels still push sex is about penetration. How about just one romance novel that's spicy and has not one penetration scene.
@@PraiseJ-Pope My biggest complaint about straight romance novels is that they are afraid to talk about women's bodies. Out of the hundreds of straight romance novels that I have read only one has ever mentioned a woman with an erection. Most guys don't even know women get erections, information like that can be conveyed in funny dialogue. None have mentioned that women prefer non-penetrative sex. Honestly when I read a straight romance novel I *tend* to skip the sex scenes, something I don't do in either gay or lesbian novels. This is because in straight novels the women *tend* to be dick receptacles. Sex isn't considered "true sex" until penis is in vagina. Romance authors really should look more at the sex research that come out. For example most don't know that 80% of men have fantasies of being dominated.
@@vicjames3256 If you look at comparative anatomy it makes sense. Penetrative sex for a woman is the equivalent of stroking the taint. Can a guy get off that way? Ya, but its a lot of work. The two most sensitive parts on a man are 1) the foreskin, 2) the gland. The two most sensitive parts on a woman are 1) the foreskin (Clitoral hood), and 2) the gland (the clit). The secret nobody talks about is that penis's are just really big clits.
"Lapping at her wetness"... like come on. I don't know anyone who has been on either side of the process who would willingly describe it that way. Just no.
1) my spicy word pet peeve is "jizz", for the same reason as your #1. Seriously, is this a middle school Wattpad fic? 2) As I'm typing this, I paused the ad that starts this video...and I feel like Ryan Reynolds is judging me. I'M SORRY DUDE
Ironically I don't loke the word cock because I think of chickens. And I don't like the p word not even for cats. But funny enough used the word kitty, which is probably just as bad. 😂
Anyone who was born/living in the UK in the 1970s can NEVER take the word "pussy" seriously, thanks to a certain Mrs Slocombe in the tv comedy series 'Are You Being Served.' And 'meat wand' just sounds like something from the Harry Potter fanfic NOBODY wants. Having said that.. didn't Frank Herbert use the word "beefswelling" or something very similar to that in 'Dune,' to describe a teenage boy's erection? That is... just... HORRIBLE. I like beef, beef is great... I do NOT need the word for such a tasty food item RUINED for me like that!
I am not a book writer, but I am a role player (D&D, role playing games, etc). I’ve encountered people who play spicy scenes using “meat” and “BBB” and it completely ruins everything.
5:54: "mound ... I don't know what the fuck you're talking about." Every guy who has seen Ripley getting undressed in the final scenes of _Alien_ knows *exactly* what we're talking about.
Jenna, we need a part two: Revenge of the Thesaurus.
Thesaurus 2: Bad writing is back and this time Jenna's mad as hell 😂
"Bundle of nerves" as a euphemism for the cl*toris feels WAY too clinical and anatomical in the like... cadaver anatomy lab way. It's such a dry description and dry is NOT WHAT WE WANT. (Edited for clarity.)
I guess me liking them as a reader is a hot take lol
@@m.lk.town. Hey if the phrase does it for you, I have no judgment! It just gives me a brain hiccup every time I run across it.
Isn't that just meaning being very nervous? I've never read it in a sex scene as such, so I could be wrong. But as a reference to feeling nervous, I think it works. As something sexy... not so much. XD
@@SysterYster In context it's a euphemism for the clit.
As someone who actually worked with cadavers for almost three years (I was a lab tech at a medical school) I agree with this take
When I did standup I had a bit about how the phrase “folds” made me think of origami, like if I touched it the wrong way it would unfold.
"the column of glory entered the mysterious cave" - this sentence gave my trauma for life.
"Trying to impress a master swordsman, eh? Get him to plant his enchanted sword in your cave of wonders? Do battle with the fearsome dragon within?"
"What the hell is the dragon in that metaphor?"
"Chlamydia."
"Aaaaaaand we're done here."
@@bookswithike3256 see this is where it’s acceptable. In a literal parody.
Also sword art online abridged is great. Thank you for reminding me of it, I will now go watch it again.
"it ain't that deep...or is it" 🍑
😅😅😅😅
“Velvet wrapped steel”
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I think I'm gonna join Jenna on her lobotomy appointment after having to read this one
@@gorebunny Take me with you
Well, that's perfecly legit, if you're describing a high-end police baton...
Okay but I once read 'hard steel wrapped in soft velvet' in a fanfiction and it actually kinda worked because the character basically spoke and thought in purple prose, so it was in completely something the character would and didn't take me out of the moment as much as it should.
I haven't however seen that type of description work in any other setting.
I **always** despised the word "impaled" in this context, omg. It sounds so painful 😭
i always picture a sword being inserted up umm… there😖
Or nailed or screwed. Are you building a shed there? I don't want a shed or deck there thank you.
It has its place…like I’m erotic horror lol
Glistening seafoam curls. Followed by Cleaved into her, which is "technically" right, but I wondered when and why there was an axe involved.
Eeeek why
I just snorted
"Meat Stick, Meat Rod, or Meat Wand." I'm cringing just thinking about these euphemisms! 🙉
Yeah I don't want to be thinking of Slim Jims during a sex scene...
i saw you everywhere
Love shaft, python, summer sausage, salami. Have to get into my way-back machine and revisit my early teen years. Oh yea, Meat Lance, looks like I'm back to weapons, lol. This video was hilarious to me. Thx
I think there was an episode of "Oxventure" where they came up with some fantastic ones along those lines.
Edit: the episode was "Heir Superiority," and they were brainstorming names for a newly invented foodstuff that we know as "hot dogs"
Flesh wand is as bad.
Impaled just reminds me of Olaf getting stabbed with an icicle and going, “oh look at that, I’ve been impaled.” Furthest thing from hot (unless you’re into that).
I had a mouth full of tea when the quivering thing started, I almost no longer had a mouth full of tea but, a lap top full of tea.
Also I've never seen quivering used for the butt b4 ...
Shlong is my fave for the meat stick
I think someone describing a woman being turned on as " a river between my legs" will haunt me forever, I know they were a new writer, and it definitely read as their first time writing a spicy scene, but then the scene turned to a more non con scene and just made everything worse.
Shlong is a great word
Damn, I forgot schlong; notice my different spelling, we were fancy pricks in my hometown.
I very much enjoy A Song of Ice and Fire, but when George R.R. Martin used the phrase "she was sopping wet down there," I just start laughing out loud. Not sexy.
Ain't no way bro actually said that 😭
So far, the worst one has to be "manroot"
I was about to write the same thing.
The amount of times I've read "quivering hole" in fanfics 😭 I haaaaaate it omg
Hilariously, an ad popped up right after your remark about "the passage to Narnia"... an ad for foot-long sausage.
I am not making this up. 🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣 That moment when RUclips gets something right... on accident
TFW you start to suspect the algorithm is learning too well...
I hear "impaled" I think of the snowman in Frozen. Which is also a mood-killer.
I thought I was the only one
Oh my god. I lost it at Vlad popping up. Screw demonetization, Jenna. This was gold.
Jenna--I think I may have the "most horrible synonym" for the clitoris actually read in erotica beat. How about "slimy pearl?" I actually read that illegal verbal combination multiple times within ostensibly "erotic" tales. Since erotica is supposed to turn up the heat as far as the reader is concerned, reading something like "slimy pearl" in an intimate love scene arguably has a chilling, if not a totally freezing, effect on the entire work!
Reading this made me gag ☹😅 that's horrible I'm so sorry your eyes were exposed to that..
I've seen "peanut". Which is more funny than anything else. Though to be fair, that wasn't a sex scene, it was a physical comedy scene, so it worked.
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Not the quivering hole... 😂😂😂😂 I lost it!!
Magic Wand
Mahogany streeeeaaaams WHYYYYY AHAHAHAHAHA
muahahahaahhaaaa
So I'm guessing “Aching Diamond Rod of Thunder-F****” (or ADROT-F for short) is right out?
That's not a body part, it's an anime fighting technique 😂😂😂
@@taylor_green_9why not both?
@@AskAScreenwriter I've been blind to the possibilities 😁
In reference to Zeus? Yes. For anyone else? Hell nah
I haven't checked out your videos in a while and I've got to say I am GRATEFUL for the changes. I have autism and the POP sound effect was so unpleasant that I tried navigating around where I expected pops. Using a gentle DING, while not perfect, is much gentler on my nervous system. THANK YOU.
As to the topic, I haven't had to guts to write a sex scene yet. I've written before and after. At this point in my writing journey, I'm happy leaving details to the reader's imagination.
I will admit to being a fan of "impale," but I also tend toward erotic horror, so the unsettling connotations are very much intentional. By using words more associated with battle than love, I'm attempting to convey that the protagonist at least subconsciously realizes they're in danger. That's a very specific vibe, though. It has no business in a sweet and fluffy scene.
I agree. It makes me think of less consensual actions.
Okay, but what about "purple-headed yogurt slinger"?
Infinite 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
That’s criminal
It's not a term for anatomy, but I read a romance novel that kept using the word copulation for sex. I'm sorry, that' got to be the least sexy word you could've picked
I have one friend who has English as their second language, and while writing at one point, they were very fixated on the word fornication in terms of sex and I felt so bad because I giggled and instantly got turned off every time they used it in their writing-
I’ll throw one in for Merphy Napier “ undulate/undulating”
It's another word for swing. What do swings have to do with sex?
@@star-boltlover9609 exactly
@star-boltlover9609 1, It doesn't mean swing. It means to move up and down smoothly.
2, Even if it did mean to swing, swinging means to move back and forth or side to side.
If undulate sounds bad to your ears, that's fair enough, but I hope I don't have to explain to you how either of those described motions are related to sex.
The use of "mound" makes perfect sense; they're just trying to help you think about baseball.
The one that gets me is when nipples "pebble." When I think of pebbles, I think of tiny flat round gray hard rocks. I've had 40+ years of experience with aforementioned body part, and maybe I've been doing something wrong, but I've never known them to shrink, flatten, or turn round or gray when aroused. Yes, I know I take things too literally at times. I also tend to visualize things literally as well. It can be a curse and also make reading sex scenes very entertaining.
'I need something to watch while I eat lunch...'
:S
I lost it at mohagony stream 😂
6:23 I think it got shortened to ‘mound’ from ‘mound of Venus’ which is way sexier.
Agree. The Latin was _Mons Veneris_ ... & yes, that's where 'venereal' comes from
I completely agree with the term “impaled”. It’s gross, it feels violating, and the only way it should be used is to describe the mating process of bed bugs.
I just think of Olaf in Frozen when he gets impaled. Every time I read the word, I think, "Oh, look. I've been impaled." Still not sexy 😂
It's something a rapist would say.
I loved this video, very funny. Was relieved to find that all the words listed I've also turned my nose up at. Would love a video discussing your thoughts on how to go about writing sex scenes well, and what approach to words and descriptions you approve of.
Writing challenge: Construct a short story that uses all of these
Halloween challenge: read said story three times in front of a mirror in a dark room and survive being slapped by the summoned Jenna
I love the videos where you talk about terrible word choices!
The worst description I think I've ever read: 'there was an adult meatswelling in his loins'.
I've been following you for over half a decade, Jenna, and this video is among my all-time favorites. The Butters commentary is awesome, and for the record my least-favorite "spicy" euphemism was "large, swollen man-root." 🤣🤣
“My date with Swamp Thing”
Man-root might be appropriate for Groot. 🌲
Got a couple more for ya
*cough cough* Ahem. And I quote:
•long thick weapon of mass destruction
•tight wet wonderland
•magical wand that casts org**m spells
•milking
•invade me
I have read all, and I’m ready to bleach my eyes
Magical wand that casts orgasm spells is hilarious, and I will use it.
I recently came across a German author who collected basically the worst sex scenes he read and published them. His conclusion was basically that it is really funny how authors can accurately describe a disgusting murder scene, a beautiful landscape or an overcrowded, anxiety-inducing shopping mall, but more often than not they incredibly fail at writing about sex, something most people spend way more time thinking about.
She's not a romance writer, but I think Ursula K. Le Guin does sex scenes really well in her books by being almost completely non-euphemistic. Granted, those scenes usually serve different purposes than they do in romance books.
I hate the P word too and have used the C word in its place😂
ain’t english so colourful
@@neehaa indeed lol
I don't like the P word either
You crack me up! And love your advice, thanks Jenna.
"Unless you can't find it"
Goddamn, Jenna. 😂
Whu... I thought "mounds" was in reference to boobs, especially if plural. How do you fondle the relatively flat skin above the gonads. There's, like... Nothing to grab there but pubic hair, and pulling on that would hurt!
its both
a little late to the game but "velvet-wrapped steel" still haunts me to this day
This video actually makes me feel better about my writing! I don’t write those types of stories often, but when I do apparently my word choices are Jenna approved.
Props to anyone who manages to write anything spicy and it not sound painfully awkward. It’s almost like the subject matter itself will make most words sound off putting. And I say this as someone who likes reading this stuff hahah
I have an ongoing word document that has every one I think is rather disgusting
Whole heartedly agree with you on number three! Look forward to maybe more of these this was great! I hope you don’t get demonetized.
This might be the best comedy on the internet. Thanks Jenna!
Thanks!
This is literally the best video I’ve seen in a long time
I agree with all points. I'm so glad I'm not the only one suffering.
My hated word is "core" in reference to the V. Makes me think of the center of an apple and I can't for the life of me understand why people are inserting fruit into their sexy scene.
"Wet folds" imidiately make me think of the song "Terry flaps" in the credits of that one Rick and morty episode. Not sexy in the slightest 😂
If I have to read "he thrust into her core" one more time my head will explode.
He held the apple up for her to eat, his index finger opposite her mouth. As she bit in, he thrust into her core. 🍎
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NOT THE GRAPHIC WARNING!!
the people needed to be warned
I actually agree with you on a lot of these! 😂
I'm still traumatized from the first time I saw someone describe male anatomy as a "meat hill"
A HILL? What is wrong with it so that it is a hill? 🤣 unless it’s described in someone’s pants, but even then…
Listen, I am on here for some of the things you said, but I’m just gonna say it cal it what it is. Also, I hate the use of the word baby batter
"Baby batter" was the grossest one on here and it wasn't even on the list.
I don't know why but the way you said "Big bouncing boobies" made me burst out laughing. And now I can't stop. Thanks for that. 😂
Indeed. Especially considering that every time I hear/see the word boobies now, my brain immediately goes to David Tennant. "Look. Boobies!"
"...The Jayden, Kayden, and Leyden group chat..." is an amazing phrase and Butters is a versatile reaction model!
So glad I found this video through one of your short! Since you've been back I have only seen one of your videos promoted to me. Missed you ❤
I hope you don't get demonetized because of this! You made me laugh so hard with all the quivering hahaha 🤣
I've mostly seen "nubs" in reference to nipples. What's your thoughts on that?
Also, reading Chinese euphamisms for sex is so funny, because they need to get around censorship. Examples: "Dragon breathing white" (cumming) and "soldier breaking down her gate"
Although, they were in a story that was written by someone who definitely does not have a lot of experience with men...
You seem to always teach me something and give me something to laugh about even if I feel sick.
Brings a whole new meaning to the title North West Passage.
"The lobotomy is scheduled for Friday!!!" 🤣
actually about to write an explicit/intimate scene in my dark fantasy, so thanks for the upload! XD
I suppose it depends on the consistency of how the rest of the story is narrated, but I believe that an effective elicitation of a feeling is vastly superior to an accurate description of what actually happens. In this sense, I agree that bad metaphors are the worst, since they fail at conveying the right feelings as well as at providing an accurate description.
I'd kind of support the notion that less is more, attention-wise at least. If, however, Cartland's "they kissed and touched the divine" feels inadequate - even though her focus is clearly on the lead-in, and she acknowledged correctly the ultimate limitations of the medium - I'd focus on either (a) what goes on in the mind of only one of the characters or on (b) the dynamics of their physical movement, leaving a sort of camera obscura around areas where a description would do disservice, which the reader is supposed to interpret on their own within the context. Those would differ from (c) the clear, unambiguous, and clinically detached descriptions of normal narration.
Specifically, example (a) would be equivalent to shutting the eyes during the most intense moments and having fantasies and associations accompany the sensation. Example (b): "X.'s knee dropped down on the cold gravel (i.e., if it's a rougher scene) / soft threads of the carpet, where one of their hands also found balance while their other hand moved slowly down the side of Y.'s body" - you know exactly what's happening from their position relative to each other, and - I assume that everyone's an adult here - I'd rather have the focus remain on the motions of their hand or head as if there's so much more to explore than exhaust the things to describe as if it happened under fluorescent lighting.
Speaking of which, an opposite of the above, or example (c), would be providing an even description for the literal-minded, making no distinction between the ordinary and the special, the normal and the indescribable, as if the characters were completely jaded. A version of that with bad metaphors would be like a caveman describing their mundane existence.
This is probably all amateur stuff for anyone who's written anything. I know what I like, though.
Oh my god THANK YOU-
I absolutely despise the word pussy with my entire being. It feels... greasy. It’s wet, and not in a good way. It’s damp and slimy and just-just bad
Also please please please drop the title of the big bouncing boobies book because I desperately want to read it with a specific friend of mine so we can laugh until we start choking
One phrase I keep hearing is, “to the hilt,” in reference to a meat stick entering a hole. I might be the minority here, but I really don’t like it. I think it’s just because of how many times I’ve heard it now. It’s specifically the overuse of the word, “Hilt,” I’m pretty sure. “To the base,” would be fine for me, though I personally prefer, “Bottomed out,” and its various counterparts depending on tense. That’s just me though :0
"To the hilt" sounds likke a non-furry version of knotting which... Feels very wrong.
Hard agree on ‘impale’. To me, that word only works in a r@pe scene. And it works great then, because, as Jenna said, it’s such a violent word.
This video was so good and made me laugh out on so many occasions! Thank you Jenna!
1:38 "it's a delight" aaaaaand i've subscribed❤
What a wonderful way to learn how sex scenes in my not-native language should be written. Because dont just hit a "translate" button and hope for the best!
*hits head on table* This is when is romance/smut published writing now? These... fanfiction writing words are passing?!
Makes me think of the teacher from 10 Things I Hate About You 😂
I was thinking about the same thing!
That quivering moment 🤣🤣🤣
Maybe that was the first draft The Drifters tried before they switched out to “This Magic Moment.”
I don't do that many sex scenes, but when I do I try to avoid euphemism. It might come off as clinical sometimes, but at least it doesn’t come off as ridiculously lyrical.
This is golden! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
"Gash" to describe a woman's nether region. I assume the whole area? Honestly, I am not sure. It gives me the heebie jeebies, and I do the brain equivalent of putting my fingers in my ears while saying la la la....
I am ashamed to say I have used a few of these 😫😣😖
I think "mound" became a trendy term about ten years ago on what I will simply call "Sex Positive Podcasts." Literally never heard it in any other context. With sex scenes, I absolutely hate the words "Her sex" and "His manhood." Just... WTF man? The rest of the book has perfectly good descriptors, then it becomes a giggling schoolboy describing sex the way Steve Carell described a tit in The 40 Year Old Virgin.
I didn’t realize I needed such a big laugh from all these wild phrases! 😂😂
You have a strong and admirable Australian spirit.
This was very frank and part of a bigger conversation - labelling genitals appropriately is important for everyone, and books is a good start! My biggest complaint about spice in books is when its poorly executed. Putting scenes in that don't need to be there is made worse by fumbling around with word-choices. Its writing 1.01, be concise! A lot of smut scenes I have read lately (that have sent me firmly into the clean romance camp just to spare my eyes) seem like they were copy-pasted out of the back of a vintage stick magazine. "Dear Penthouse..." 🤮 Tacky!
Well, when you from the Caribbean like me the P word is essential 😂😂😂
Can we talk about how 83% of women prefer non penetration when it comes to sex, and yet most romance novels still push sex is about penetration. How about just one romance novel that's spicy and has not one penetration scene.
Thats why i'm working hard to make my spicy scenes featuring and highlighting 👅🐱
@@PraiseJ-Pope My biggest complaint about straight romance novels is that they are afraid to talk about women's bodies. Out of the hundreds of straight romance novels that I have read only one has ever mentioned a woman with an erection. Most guys don't even know women get erections, information like that can be conveyed in funny dialogue. None have mentioned that women prefer non-penetrative sex. Honestly when I read a straight romance novel I *tend* to skip the sex scenes, something I don't do in either gay or lesbian novels. This is because in straight novels the women *tend* to be dick receptacles. Sex isn't considered "true sex" until penis is in vagina.
Romance authors really should look more at the sex research that come out. For example most don't know that 80% of men have fantasies of being dominated.
Wait, what... 83%? That number seems very high for anything sexually related, and has not been my experience, .but very interesting.
@@vicjames3256 If you look at comparative anatomy it makes sense. Penetrative sex for a woman is the equivalent of stroking the taint. Can a guy get off that way? Ya, but its a lot of work. The two most sensitive parts on a man are 1) the foreskin, 2) the gland. The two most sensitive parts on a woman are 1) the foreskin (Clitoral hood), and 2) the gland (the clit).
The secret nobody talks about is that penis's are just really big clits.
Wet folds?! I have never read that in a book and thank god.
I agree with everything! Omg😂
"Lapping at her wetness"... like come on. I don't know anyone who has been on either side of the process who would willingly describe it that way. Just no.
Quickly doing a word search in my novel.
problem is a long scene can’t use the same word over and over. It’s why I quit writing sex scenes because it got repetitive.
There's nothing that turns me off more than reading cringe words in sex scenes 😂
This had me cackling the whole way through omg
The quivering hole bit killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Spurt... there is never a time to use that word, but in a sex scene is the last place I want to read it.
"Mahogany streams" killed me omg
1) my spicy word pet peeve is "jizz", for the same reason as your #1. Seriously, is this a middle school Wattpad fic?
2) As I'm typing this, I paused the ad that starts this video...and I feel like Ryan Reynolds is judging me. I'M SORRY DUDE
Beats love spray
@@lizanna6390🤣🤣🤣🤣🤢
Ironically I don't loke the word cock because I think of chickens. And I don't like the p word not even for cats. But funny enough used the word kitty, which is probably just as bad. 😂
Anyone who was born/living in the UK in the 1970s can NEVER take the word "pussy" seriously, thanks to a certain Mrs Slocombe in the tv comedy series 'Are You Being Served.' And 'meat wand' just sounds like something from the Harry Potter fanfic NOBODY wants.
Having said that.. didn't Frank Herbert use the word "beefswelling" or something very similar to that in 'Dune,' to describe a teenage boy's erection? That is... just... HORRIBLE. I like beef, beef is great... I do NOT need the word for such a tasty food item RUINED for me like that!
I am not a book writer, but I am a role player (D&D, role playing games, etc). I’ve encountered people who play spicy scenes using “meat” and “BBB” and it completely ruins everything.
Truly it is written, "Women and cats will do as they please, men and dogs will just have to get used to it." Heinlein.
5:54: "mound ... I don't know what the fuck you're talking about." Every guy who has seen Ripley getting undressed in the final scenes of _Alien_ knows *exactly* what we're talking about.