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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 427.09
EAN num: 9780304363872
ISBN number: 0304363871
Label: Cassell
Manufacturer: Cassell
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: 2003-06
Publishing house: Cassell
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Visceral, raw, and utterly lewd and rude, these more than 6,500 off-colour phrases provide a guided tour of sexual wordscapes. Categories include body parts (men's and women's); states of arousal and frustration; masturbation and orgasm; intercourse in a dazzling variety of positions and occasions; oral sex, kinky sex, gay and bi sex, promiscuity, virginity, prostitution, and many other commercial aspects of sex. The era of safe sex has brought a new, imaginative coinage of terms for contraception, venereal disease, and AIDS. Sources range from the latest street slang and popular music lyrics, to classical literary allusions, fascinating etymologies, and words that rhyme-all perfect for use in homegrown limericks and greeting cards. Bonus: George Carlin's famous 1970s '12 words you can't say on TV,' along with their latest competitors. It's like a red-light district of language!
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Great place to find other Words and Phrases for the same meanings of anything to do with sexy.
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There are seemingly endless lists of slang terms for everything to do with one's sex or the act itself. The small-sized book is thorough if anything, dividing up the collection of terms into minute categories for easy finding and including the date of origination for the term or additional description where possible. There are cheesy line drawings illustrating some of the odd terms, apparently just in an effort to plug up the white space left by the lists upon lists of terms.
This book is a great reference if you're interested in where/when terms stemmed from or looking for outdated or little known slang to add to your own vocabulary to baffle your friends while sitting at the bar with nothing better to do. Otherwise, the book would only be a useful resource for a writer or other word-sleuth if you're writing a period piece with untactful characters. How else could you ever utilize your new awareness of terms like "gristle-gripper" or "dormouse" for female genitalia and "cranny-haunter" or "flap-doodle" for males?
This isn't a useful guide for modern writers of erotica, unless only for your own amusement. Worst of all, the bar of soap pictured on the front cover needs to lose the token pubic hair. It looks so real that I keep wanting to pick it off...
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This book is a big book of words describing sex...all kinds of sex....but the best thing about this book...is that it gives reference dates and countries that the saying are attributed to.
This book is great for some laughs...and the perfect gift for the foul mouthed in your family...or writers....or both.
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If you like reference books like I do, you can never have enough lexicons at your disposal. I thought I knew a lot of the slang referring to things normally covered by bathing suits, but I was mistaken. Tons of stuff I didn't even imagine. Some of the terms are 19th Century slang and are no longer used... and the reason for their use is not always obvious or explained.
The few sparse illustrations are absolutely hilarious, but they are just cartoons to pepper the book, not diagrams.
My less than perfect rating is due to the lack of true history behind the terms, especially those from the 1960s and earlier... just citing that it was coined in a particular year.
Also, there are terms I have heard repeatedly on TV & movies that were not cited here. There are no references as to where they collected their data, so the book becomes more of a funny bathroom humour compendium instead of a reliable lexicon.
Whenever you need an arsenal of foul words, or you need to look up that term you just overheard your teenager say on the phone, however, this is a handy reference for those of us less informed in the realm of lockerroom banter.
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This is one of the funniest books I've picked up in a while. Its really just a listing of terminology and euphemisms for sexuality and the like. If you ever wanted to boost your dirty word list, here's your book.
I read a few reviews, one in particular complains that this isn't the best book on the subject, but I don't see any alternate choices listed. Ok, maybe this is or isn't THE definitive guide to the subject, but its pretty good, and pretty cheap.
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