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Dear all porntastic fanfic writers in every fandom ever:

Can we never, ever refer to ejaculate as "essence" again?

Please?

Thanks!

Comments

[genders.livejournal.com]

I'm not in the fandom, but I think I'd vastly prefer "essence" to, say, "spunk".

I've got to start reading some of this stuff.

[gement.livejournal.com]

Depends on the era and the person's brain. I mean, Jack wouldn't think "spunk." But Owen might. Only an alien who was getting way too far into the technobabble would even consider thinking "essence."

Side note, driving me crazy in my period writing: people have been using the word "come" as an orgasmic verb for centuries, but as a fluid noun for only a hundred years. "Spunk," on the other hand, is a noun meaning vigor and so on (with presumable side uses) since the 16th century. But I don't like how it sounds either.

All of these are preferable to "love juice," mind.

Also, reading the other comments, it's stupidly hysterical that people unfriend you over this sort of thing. I hope it's the ones who just don't want to hear you talk about cock. Because, really, if their tolerance is set that low? They're probably the ones that found the phallus in the Little Mermaid castle.

That should now be a euphemism for something. Can a euphemism include the word "phallus" if it's a euphemism for something else?