When I began reading romance fiction, I found intriguing many aspects of the novels. Certainly, the Happily Ever After appealed, as did the structure I understood was particular to the genre. But it was the language that most fascinated me.
I began to notice particular turns of phrase from novel to novel. And while it never struck me that the authors were being unoriginal, I began to think they might be having a bit of fun with us.
Yes, I actually believed there were phrases romance writers included in their novels as kinds of “in jokes” between one another. Some of my favorites included:
1. Her mouth opened in a moist “O” of arousal.
2. Clever fingers/hands danced and wove magic.
3. She worried/sunk her teeth into her plump lower lip.
4. For he was a big man, big in all ways.
5. In all her life, she’d never felt anything like it before.
Sure, I could jump Strunk and White all over that last one, too. And I will cop to the fact that the “O” thing drives me a little nutty, just not enough to ruin a reading experience.
Cause I can find something to like about even the most problematic novel, and never tire of the certain comfortable familiarity that is romance.
Howza bout you? What are the tried-and-true romance novel words and phrases — heck, lets toss scenarios into the pot — which you never tire of?
Michelle, this is a pretty funny topic. Back in the ’70s I noticed that some of the Harlequin Presents writers described their heroines as having a short upper lip. I still occasionally see that description, even in non-category romances, today. I never did figure out what was so great about a short upper lip.
Speaking of lips, your #3, the worrying/biting/ nibbling/chewing the bottom lip thing baffles me. I read it ALL the time and it always makes me crazy. Do people really do that when they’re conflicted or whatever emotions those heroines are experiencing? I do know that it apparently drives a romance hero wild with lust cuz the authors always mention that. I ask because I’ve never noticed anyone do it, I’ve never done it, yet according to romance writers it’s a common phenomenon in young women. True, I have grown rather long in the tooth, but I just don’t remember ever nibbling my lips. And I’ve been conflicted
plenty.
Oh yeah! I forgot the word “delicate”. Anybody else notice how incessantly the word delicate is used in many romances to describe the heroine? In one book I read last year, every part of the heroine was delicate. Even her forehead. I laughed a long time about that one. It’s pretty amazing to see that many of those old romance guidelines from the ’70s are still in effect.
by Barbara B. April 13th, 2007 at 6:56 amthrobbing manhood
by Kevin Killiany April 13th, 2007 at 7:01 amHit “send” before adding:
That relic of the 70s never fails to crack me up.
by Kevin Killiany April 13th, 2007 at 7:05 amSure, it shows up in hummor now, but back in the day it was as racey as it got.
Those throbbing manhoods are all over the place! I get a kick out of the throbbing manhoods, too KeVin. In that vein I also like tender young womanhood. I don’t know what it means but it works for me. What really gives me the giggles though, is how many heroines “writhe in ecstasy during the culmination of desire.” A poster mentioned this at another romance site and now I can’t help but notice all the writhing going on in romance, too.
by Barbara B. April 13th, 2007 at 7:13 amWell I have to head off for work, but Barbara, yes, the biting of the lip thing drives me nuts! And all the eye rolling too. Every five seconds, someone is rolling their eyes.
And every “big” guy is “as thick as her wrist”. (Can’t help but stare at my wrist whenever I read that).
Oops, gotta go. Later, Bella.
by Stacy ~ April 13th, 2007 at 7:29 am“thick as her wrist?”
by Bernita April 13th, 2007 at 7:36 am~howls~
I have small wrists, but…what is she? …the Carlsbad Caverns?
LOL Bernita. I know! And I’ve read that in several books, not just erotic romance either.
by Stacy ~ April 13th, 2007 at 7:40 amWhat about when someone gives one of the protags, usually the heroine, a knowing look? What do they know?
by Barbara B. April 13th, 2007 at 8:05 amOMG, already you’re killing me, but you’re doing it with that nice “tongue-in-cheekiness” that I love! What a nice thing to wake up to: throbbing manhoods thick as my wrist. Not that I don’t do that everyday, just not in the plural. Oh, dear. Look what have I dug myself into…
Jon Stewart once did this bit about how women objectify the opposite sex just like men. He refers to overhearing chicks describe a guy’s penis as “just so beautiful, like a baby’s arm holding an apple.” I often think of that and giggle when I’m reading romance.
Now, the lower lip thing. I have to say that I think of women’s mouths as visual turn-ons for men, and if you think about ads today, you’d think lipstick was being hawked to guys instead of us. Plus, if you look at men’s mags, not even porn, you’ll see lots of lower lip biting going on. I think it points to vulnerability, or something, like, maybe she’s concerned his big, throbbing manhood is going to be too much for her tiny little flower of femininity. I’ll buy that as a good fantasy for a guy. Not bad for a woman, either, I’m thinkin.
by Michelle Buonfiglio April 13th, 2007 at 8:07 amOh, Barbara, I’m here giving you a cyber-knowing glance. Don’t all those guys KNOW everything? (shivers and trembles while rolling eyes in a knowing way).
I hear you on the short upper lip thing, too. I feel the same with “mobile mouth.” And heroes always have a fuller lower lip, don’t they? I’m interested in knowing why women find this sexy. (seriously) Is it a pouty thing? It leaves Johnathan Rhys-Myers out of the hero category for sure. But I do like those heroes whose lips are firm yet soft. But I prefer their throbbing manhoods only the former.
Oh! And I remember in one of the KMM Highlanders, maybe Dageus, bit his lower lip and gave the heroine The Look when he needed to have at it. It struck me as memorable, cause I’d not read it in heroes before, only hns.
by Michelle Buonfiglio April 13th, 2007 at 8:14 amI do a lot of expression with my eyebrows (and I have the forehead creases to prove it), but acrobatic eyebrows all over the place in books are getting on my nerves. Once or twice I don’t mind, but when it happens six times in one chapter, it’s time for some Botox. They’re arching here and cocking here and winging there and inching up over there… Surely there must be some other way to indicate… whatever’s being indicated by all those hypermobile brows.
by Kerry Allen April 13th, 2007 at 8:15 amMy characters do a lot of lower lip tugging and nibbling and worrying. Probably because I do that a lot myself when I’m in uber anxiety mode, which seems to be pretty much every day. Heh.
Darnit. *delete delete delete*
by Jaci Burton April 13th, 2007 at 8:45 amMy question is, what’s with all the “growling?!” Heroes are constantly growling at things, and often, it’s not even a paranormal.
I don’t believe I’ve ever had anyone growl at me.
Maybe I’m missing out.
by MaryKate April 13th, 2007 at 9:00 amMichelle, MOST of us prefer the throbbin’ manhoods! I almost had an asthma attack reading your last post. That mobile mouth thing is hilarious. I’ve never been quite sure why it and the fuller bottom lip is so desirable in a man. Feminine delicacy prevents me from openly speculating about it. What if the hero has a short upper lip and a fuller bottom one? What havoc would he wreak on the female populace!
I’ve often wondered if I’m an anomaly among women. You know. Maybe my channel/core/sheathe isn’t as capacious as it should be. By romance writer standards my inner works aren’t up to code, apparently. If a “manhood” as thick as my wrist was coming at me I’d flee. Go on the run. It would be my own private romantic suspense story.
by Barbara B. April 13th, 2007 at 9:08 amROFL - my favorite is, “his punishing kiss.”
by Rhonda Stapleton April 13th, 2007 at 9:09 amI must admit, I always hate the use of the phrase “her secret molten core” or “her moist femininity.” I mean its more delicate than getting all anatomical, but it always pulls me out of a book when the heroine feels a longing in her “forbidden honey pot” or something…:roll:
by Andrea April 13th, 2007 at 9:15 amAndrea, that “forbidden honey pot” made me think of Winnie the Pooh in ways I never have before…
by Kerry Allen April 13th, 2007 at 9:21 amSorry everybody! I just can’t stop posting on this subject today. Andrea, I also can’t stop laughing about the molten cores and moist femininities. Sounds like a course of antibiotics/antifungals might be called for. I read a LOT of erotic romance but sometimes even I miss the days when writers didn’t feel the need to give the reader an update on the humidity level and heat index of the heroine’s crotch. I had to stop reading a book this morning because I’d just didn’t want to hear any more about the heroine’s dampening panties. Blecch!
by Barbara B. April 13th, 2007 at 9:26 am:oops:I’m going to plead the 5th Amendment on this one because there are so many that are just so silly and I tire of them the second time I read them within a single novel to say nothing of a twelth novel.:roll: Far from being comforting, they jar me out of the story.
by Kimber An April 13th, 2007 at 9:31 amBarbara, sounds like the heroine needs a weather man and an antibacterial wipe, not a hero.
by Andrea April 13th, 2007 at 9:31 am“strappy sandals”–don’t see this much anymore, but I think it was a required phrase in any old Harlequin novel. I just hate the way it sounds out loud, and it makes me think bondage. (Submission Requirements: 90,000 words, and one reference to strappy sandals.)
“tinge of” anything. I don’t know why I hate this phrase, but the only place I see it is in romance. “Tinged with sadness.” “Tinged with whatever.” Blech.
The word “core.” Which has never been used by any human being in any real conversation, ever.
by Meredith April 13th, 2007 at 10:26 amOkay, had to check in here at work to see where you guys were going with this thing. Pretty much what I expected, so I had the sense to not be drinking coffee.
As a guy who missed out on getting the lead in the 1975 Rollins College production of “Equus” by that much, I am often struck by the number of heroes in modern romances who are endowed to the point of needing a second zip code. My wife, a cardio intensive care nurse, insists the volume of blood required by some examples would cause the man to pass out. (Though there’s ample evidence of loss of blood flow to the cognitive centers in real life, I guess.)
More than bit lips, rolling eyes (catch those, would you?), arching eyebrows and knowing looks, I get pulled out of stories by mixed expressions. You know, the mixture of sorrow and desire, or joy and pain, or longing and ecstacy just about any other pair of unrelated emotions. I realize the author is trying to convey the character’s internal conflict, but still…. How is that two-expression thing done? Left side does one emotion, right side the other? Never works for me.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go scrub the Winnie ther Pooh image out of my brain and get back to work….
by KeVin Killiany April 13th, 2007 at 10:39 am’sta God, Kevin. I’m just seeing Pooh bear stuck in that ol wall. shiver. And I can’t stop lauging at your wife’s good sense of anat/phys. But a girl can dream, cain’t she?
I was thinkin, Kev, especially with what those writers had to go through to write graphic without writing graphic back in the day, that we might try to exorcise the ghosts of throbbing manhoods past be tossing out as many klunky euphemisms as we can conjure. I’ll start:
Jewel of her femininity. Surging helm. No, really. I read that one.
by Michelle Buonfiglio April 13th, 2007 at 10:52 amAck, there are so many of these things that bug me… too many to list, really.
But one particular horror leaps to mind.
Dementedly stupid speech tags! The one I hate the most is:
‘blah di blah di blah,’ he grated.
Grated? What the fleeble is that? Grated is something applied to cheese and nutmeg and carrot…
I would a million times rather read the word ’said’ than all these contrived alternatives. ‘Said’ disappears and allows the prose to just flow on. I discovered recently that Agatha Christie almost always uses ’said’ and she’s just about the best selling author ever. So if it’s good enough for her, it’s certainly good enough for me!
Agh… I’m ranting! I’ll go away…
Love
WendyPortia
by WendyPortia April 13th, 2007 at 10:55 amBarbara and Andrea, I hear you on the core thing. Core requirements, cores of apples.
But the thing is, I’m not unhappy to accept the phrases as part of the novels, know what I mean? I guess we’d stop reading if it bothered us that much, and I’m sayin it’s fun to giggle about, but doesn’t make me want to stop any time soon.
I’m pulled out of a “love scene” or erotic scene quicker by stark writing, like “he stuck his finger in her and she moaned” before I am by euphemism.
Oh, and I agree about the mixed emotions, Kevin. I actually wonder at folks whose faces are so expressive, and why I don’t meet them in RL. But I except the extraordinary in romance, I guess.
Oh, Merideth — just a sec, I’m adjusting my strappy sandals — I feel your pain. Yet, as I read, the core of my being is tinged with frivolity.
by Michelle Buonfiglio April 13th, 2007 at 10:58 amI just read a Harlequin Present where the heroine’s “secred place” was mentioned. That might not have been the exact wording, since I read it in Swedish translation, but still. Secret place?? Come on, who are you trying to fool, everybody knows you have one… It’s like something prudish parents would tell their children… I think “throbbing manhood” was in there too, again in translation. It’s hilarious and hilariously offputting, but at least it doesn’t sound like something shameful…
by Stella April 13th, 2007 at 11:00 amAh, Kimber, speak on it! Glad to hear your opinion.
And Wendy/Portia, or wendyportia, perhaps, he grated is very, very close to MaryKate’s growling and groaning heroes. The hero’s always making those groans and growls as the virgin heroine lightly, experimentally touches her tongue to his, no? And how bout those “delicious little mewling noises” she makes at the back of her throat that always lead him to losing the last shreds of his vaunted self-control.
I gotta tell you, I could kinda read them a billion times, just so I can laugh with you about them here, kinda celebrate them, too.
But you’re right about said, she said.
by Michelle Buonfiglio April 13th, 2007 at 11:03 amAh, Stella, the old “most secret [flesh, place, core].” That goes hand-in-hand, as it were, with, “the place she’d never looked at, let alone touched.” Although that makes lots of sense for lots of women, albeit repressed ones.
How does one say throbbing manhood in Swedish? Bjorn Borg of 20 years ago comes to mind.
by Michelle Buonfiglio April 13th, 2007 at 11:07 amI read in a few (about 3-4 I think) books that mentioned the heroine having a “heart-shaped face”.
I thought the word “heart” sounds sweet, but to me, a heart-shape is wide and fat and some-what bouncy… I find it hard to associate with a sexy woman’s face
by Fancy April 13th, 2007 at 11:26 amPhrase that always cracks me up: creamy breasts.
What is she, lactating?
(Having said that, I can’t promise I’ve never used it!)
SWAK,
by Lucinda Betts April 13th, 2007 at 11:33 amLucinda
:oops:Ooh, no, I can’t pop into this column anymore. The Throbbing Manhood in Swedish is not something I want to think about in the context of the Muppet Show.:shock: Why isn’t there a little face at the top of this little box which throws up on cue?
by Kimber An April 13th, 2007 at 11:36 amMaybe they mean shaped like a real heart, like so:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Humhrt2.jpg
Mmm, baby, touch my ventricle. Now THAT is sexy.
by Kerry Allen April 13th, 2007 at 11:37 amOMG!!! I’m laughing so hard I have tea coming out my nose (Not a wise idea to drink and read this blog at the same time). And part of the reason I’m laughing is because I’m guilty, guilty, guilty. In my debut book, the heroine was constantly chewing on her lower lip (this is actually one of my bad habits and I shared it with her, LOL!)
by Eve Silver/Eve Kenin April 13th, 2007 at 11:49 amOK, how ’bout a scenario that I never, ever tire of?
Yes, it’s the dreaded secret baby. Now, in real life, I would be appalled to hear someone just hadn’t bothered to advise the father of her child that he was a daddy. But in romance…dunno why, but I could read that scenario over, and over, and over. I especially love the scene when the Daddy realizes he’s a daddy. Always because of some sort of expression, coloring, the eyes, etc. of the little kid.
I’m deeply ashamed of myself, and yet, you should see me snatch a secret baby book off the shelves at the bookstore.
by MaryKate April 13th, 2007 at 11:58 amthe magic hoo-ha ‘weeping with want’
Um, there is a cream for that. Not THAT I KNOW. I just heard about it.
But I believe I am guilty of that one…LOL, once. Writing it I mean…
by Vivi Anna April 13th, 2007 at 12:20 pmMagic Hoohoo’s. Hoohoo’s that are hero finders.
Or after they are done, the hero has this internal “Somehting about her was so different, and no other woman had ever made him feel that way before.” (see the power of the magic hooho?)
And I have to raise my hand to growling. My WIP hero does. *hangs head* If I may present my case your honor? There is normally a few things that my Dh does that will end up in a story. This one is growling. When he’s doing something and I come up for cuddle I get growled at. Probably because it makes me laugh so hard.
by Eva Gale April 13th, 2007 at 12:25 pmUm, MaryKate, you ain’t the only one. Can you say, “Forrest Gump?”
I love the medieval warlord and virgin bride scenario. The marriage of convenience. The bodyguard. Oh! Oh! And the “they were best friends or boyfriend/girlfriend when they were young, can’t stand each other when they meet as adults, then they hook up.”
Lucinda, creamy breasts, creamy thighs, creamy shoulders, silky thighs. I just always think, didn’t they not shave their legs in Europe at that time period? I mean, I shave and, like, a nanosecond later my skin ceases to be silky. Of course, I’m Italian and take steriods. TMI? But the silkiness is the beauty of romance, I guess.
Oh, Kimber, I’m getting naughty Miss Piggy/Kermit images…
Interesting about the heart, Fancy. Of course, there’s also the perfect, heart-shaped derriere to admire on the heroine.
Did anyone mention winged eyebrows? And how bout “blade of a nose.”
by Michelle Buonfiglio April 13th, 2007 at 12:27 pmAnd may I just add that “he was a big man…” in all it’s glorious incarnations is my favorite romance novel phrase?
by Michelle Buonfiglio April 13th, 2007 at 12:28 pmEve, my husband, too, growls occasionally, though don’t tell him I mentioned it. And, at the risk of more TMI, my hoohoo is magic, thankyouverymuch.
Every woman deserves a guy who thinks her’s is the most magical hoohoo of all. Isn’t that why we read romance?
by Michelle Buonfiglio April 13th, 2007 at 12:31 pmMust put up my hand and own up to the lip biting thing! My heroines do it… and so do my heroes! LOL
Can’t get with the ‘little mewling noises though’… bleck!
Don’t mind ‘blade of a nose’, but I once read ‘beak of a nose’ and it killed the book for me. Couldn’t take the hero seriously any more. Kept imagining a toucan…
I’m a sucker for sensously hooded eyes and knifelike cheekbones on my heroes though…
by WendyPortia April 13th, 2007 at 12:37 pmthat would be ’sensuously’… of course
by WendyPortia April 13th, 2007 at 12:37 pmEvery woman deserves a guy who thinks hers is the most magical hoohoo of all. Isn’t that why we read romance?
That is to say, every woman who wants one. She’s entitled to as many or few guys as she desires.
by Michelle Buonfiglio April 13th, 2007 at 12:48 pmMichelle, just saw you on the show!!! You so rock Bella. Gorgeous and articulate to boot!!
by Vivi Anna April 13th, 2007 at 1:30 pmOMG–I’m on lunch break and don’t have time to write all that I want to–but let me just say, you have all made my day. Except, sadly now I shall always look at Pooh a little differently.
I actually have some that I liked–remember when every heroine’s arms were “akimbo” at some point in a book back in the 70s. And now–don’t know why–but I see, the juncture of her thighs all over the place–but I kinda like it.
His steel rod.
by amy*skf April 13th, 2007 at 1:48 pmVivi, what about her weeping womanhood. eeewwwwww.
A subject near and dear to my heart. The advantage of using a cliche is that everyone knows what you mean–although quite honestly some of them, many of them, have gone way beyond meaning or sense: all that laving at junctures of thighs (the what at the what?)… pebbled nubs (the clitoris is neither a pebble nor a nub. Gawd). So the hideous phrase (womanly passage–is that where you keep your knitting and gardening boots?) does the trick of keeping the story going.
But we can do better. We can be sexier and smarter about our word choices and not rely on something we’ve seen dozens of times and that has lost the impact it may have had for the first, uh, dozen or so times of its use.
Incidentally, Colette Gale and I (writing as Jane Lockwood) are introducing a new term for the clitoris this year. We shall be watching…
by Janet Mullany April 13th, 2007 at 2:27 pmI say we should just call a clit a clit and a cock a cock.
Damn the euphenisms!!!
by Vivi Anna April 13th, 2007 at 3:03 pmVivi Anna writes:I say we should just call a clit a clit and a cock a cock. Damn the euphenisms!!!
For shame, Vivi Anna. Taking away another writer’s livelihood. For what would I write about had we no euphemism? Although I do adore a discussion about the beauty of the many uses of the Fword. But that’s a blog for another day…
And thanks for the nice words. You Canadians are lucky to have such a cool program as the Gill Deacon Show. She’s so on top of things, and really, don’t you think she did a cool program about romance fiction?
Janet, you have my womanly sensibilities moist and weeping in anticipation of your new clitoral terminology. Man, wouldn’t that be a great workshop at RWA? Penile Reference and Clitoral Terminology for the Euphemistically Challenged.
But you’re right on with your pithy explanation of the value of cliche. This whole thing is kinda like the discussion of novel covers: we love to be annoyed by them, everyone has a different tolerance level, and it’s great fun to discuss what we think.
I see, the juncture of her thighs all over the place–but I kinda like it.
Indeed, Amy. They must be some thighs. Do you also see “junction” of thighs? I think I’ve even seen “jointure” of thighs. Isn’t that a legal term?
by Michelle Buonfiglio April 13th, 2007 at 3:52 pmRight Michelle, The party of the first part’s throbbing manhood shall be joined at the juncture of the party of the second parts hoohoo–much mewling and growling shall ensue. Forthwit.
by amy*skf April 13th, 2007 at 4:42 pmHi Bella! I’m late checking in cause I’ve been thrift shopping all day. Found some super bargains: leather bike jeans for $5, Old Navy denim jacket for $4, baby things. I love a bargain.
but…what is she? …the Carlsbad Caverns
I remember reading a romance where the heroine’s secret, moist feminine spot at the juncture of her thighs topped by a thatch of curls was called a cavern. I imagined the hero performing cunnilingus and yelling “Helloooooo” just to hear the echo.
I’m also a little touchy about “every fiber of her being.” It just sounds so romance-y and feeds into the stereotype.
by Marilyn April 13th, 2007 at 4:59 pmOh my gosh! The magical/glittery hooha/hoohoo. Lani Diane Rich has this whole schtick she does about the GHH. It was on Jenny Crusie’s blog earlier this week. Funny!
by Marilyn April 13th, 2007 at 5:01 pmMarilyn, I’m not sure when I’ve laughed this hard - the mental picture of the hero yelling “Hellooooo…” just keeps rolling across my brain and oh my God, my stomach hurts!
Thanks - I needed a laugh!
And that goes for the rest of you too!
Stef, who has a growling hero and a lip-biting heroine, but no caves….Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!
by Stephanie Feagan April 13th, 2007 at 6:35 pm:shock:You people are so grossing me out. I am so outta here. I may never eat Cream of Mushroom soup again. Or Tomato Cream soup. Heck, if not for the chocolate, I’m not sure I could gag down my ice cream either.:eek:
by Kimber An April 13th, 2007 at 8:06 pmA few years ago I noticed that several of the writers at Ellora’s Cave liked to note that the hero’s cock had grown impossibly harder/bigger. And, not sure if the two are related, although they happened concurrently, the heroine’s nipples would often stab the air. The hero was also not above sinking his cock, balls deep, into the heroine’s moist channel.
by Barbara B. April 13th, 2007 at 8:28 pmI have to stop reading or I’m going to wake up the baby with my hysterical laughter. Caverns. Muppets. Winnie the Pooh. OMG.
by Charlene Teglia April 13th, 2007 at 8:48 pmFirst, as a lip-biter from way back, I don’t have any problem with that phrase. And, for what it’s worth, growling heroes work for me in ways I don’t want to understand.
On the other hand, I could scream at the overuse of “revel” in romances. Too too too too common!
Recently seen phrase for throbbing manhood spotted at sunrise: morning glory! (This one had me hooting out loud for far too long, and I’m sure that’s not what the author intended).
Even worse description of the heroine’s response to being turned on: this goes beyond creaming or weeping, it was actually described as “splashing” and “squirting”. Ye gods, I just had to stop reading that book!
by Miki April 13th, 2007 at 11:49 pmI’m shocked no one’s mentioned the warming comfort derived from a hero’s hot, spilled seed
by Claudia April 14th, 2007 at 4:26 amGood one Claudia! I really, really hate the word seed used in this context. I practically burst a blood vessel everytime I read it. These days at least half of the erotic romance heroes spill their hot seed on a regular basis. Usually into something that’s either molten or moist. But really, who can blame them? Those are probably the best places to spill hot seed.
by Barbara B. April 14th, 2007 at 8:59 amCaudia, you forget to add the word “scalding”. It’s “scalding hot seed”
by Fancy April 14th, 2007 at 9:45 amOh dear. I cop to having at least one heroine who gnaws on her lips when in distress. And I do recall a recent episode of wet panties. And perhaps a growling hero or two…
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa…
Can’t promise NEVER to do it again, because I think the lip-gnawing is in character, as are the wet panties, given what she’s doing at the time. For the growling I offer no excuse. I’ll try to do better on that one.
by Selah March April 14th, 2007 at 9:54 amGood morning! Thanks everyone for such a fun day yesterday! Selah, please don’t keep any wet panties from us! I think, as MIki said, the “squirting” and “splashing” is a little disconcerting, but I have no problem with the damp lingerie.
Interesting, Claudia. I kinda like the “hot erupting male orgasm” imagery. But you’re right. Seed does sound kinda old fashioned. You know, a long time ago, I had a writing mentor who told me “romance readers don’t like to read about body fluids.” I was shocked. Cause I kinda dug it. I let her make me feel bad about my writing and my taste in novels for about a nanosecond, and never paid her another cent.
Barb b, you wrote “Those are probably the best places to spill hot seed.” I’m thinkin any place is a good place to spill hot, molten seed. But I may be in the minority.
Miki, the Morning Glory! Hilarious. Is that like the EME?
Marilyn, every fibre of my being is filled with laughter — I’m reveling in it, really — at the thought of a spelunking lover.
So, grazie mille, everyone. This was so totally fun, and you cracked me up. I tried to tell my husband about everything you were writing last night when he got home from his business trip, but I couldn’t get him to hear me over all the growling he was doing.
Hope to talk to ya again soon!
by Michelle Buonfiglio April 14th, 2007 at 11:31 amUmm, throbbing manhood in Swedish would be something like “pulserande mandom”. But I was wrong…