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*sample from 1930s horror movie* but doctor. if you kill evil murder death. YOU DIE *bass boosted spirit halloween drum soundboard* *rob zombie voice* GHOULS AND GOBLINS IN MY HOUSE WISH THE DEVIL WAS MY SPOUSE I WENT TO A RAVE IT WAS DOWN IN THE GRAVE BUT I GOT KICKED OUT CAUSE I MISBEHAVE THERES A FUCKING DEAD BODY IN DA KITCHEN AND HE SAID HE WOULD CUT OFF MY HEAD IF I DIDNT SHOW HIM GOOGLE IMAGES OF

*guitar riff rips your dick off*

writing smut like

how many synonyms for “penis” do I actually know?

and how many of those synonyms am I actually willing to use

tier 1 (most accepted, considered sexy): cock, dick

tier 2 (generally accepted): length, manhood, member, shaft

tier 3 (clinical, too formal, but not cheesy): groin, penis, phallus

tier 4 (cheesy, barely acceptable): [insert name] Jr., dong, junk, knob, prick, rod, tool, wand, wood

tier 5 (ridiculous, unacceptable, pls don’t): anything to do with beer cans, baby-maker, bishop, choad, donger, dragon, fuck wand, fun stick, hog, johnson, jimmy, lap rocket, little [insert name], love muscle/rod/stick, meat stick, one-eyed [anything], piston, private eye, schlong, trouser snake, wiener, winkie

tier 6 (you’re literally a fourth grader): baby arm, baloney pony, beaver basher, beef whistle, custard launcher, dude piston, flesh flute, heat-seeking moisture missile, krull the warrior king, luigi, mayo shooting hotdog gun, meter long king kong dong, pig skin bus, piss weasle, purple-headed yogurt flinger, purple-helmeted warrior of love, schlong dongadoodle, single barreled pump action bollock, spawn hammer, steamin’ semen truck, tan banana, thundersword, wang doodle, whoopie stick, wing wang doodle, yogurt shotgun 

Every time I read a post like this I’m always really surprised that I have strong opinions on synonyms for penis even though I really should not be by now, to wit:

1. I really do not like “dick” in sex scenes for some reason, unless they’re meant to be unsexy.

2. For some reason “prick,” although unappealing in a modern setting, is much more palatable in historicals. (Likewise, it’s really useful to know that from Middle English until like 1800 the standard word for “penis” was “yard,” which wouldn’t work that well in a modern setting but is okay for historicals and not too silly. “Penis” itself isn’t attested in English before the 17th century.)

3. Is it just a consequence of too much literary theory that “phallus” to refer to an actual literal penis that’s attached to a person, rather than a metaphorical or representational penis, seems jarring? I blame Lacan.

Honestly the more I write the more I use the words “him” or “himself” like: he could feel himself thickening or she sank down onto him, etc. Just bypass penis entirely. :)