Using the word CUNT

[Ell]

If someone is joking it doesnt bother me, but any other use will result in objects flying across the room lol.

[bee_sexi]

If it is used during dirty talk it might be okay. I like being called "names"
But to call a woman that to be mean or hurtful in a fight. It's on. And not in a good way. :-|

[raunchy gal]

yes bee i agree i like to be called names during agressive dirty talk and use the word in reference to my vagina when i talk to my partner that way.My ex husband said he respected me too much to talk dirty to me even though it turns me on.But when we argued he called me all the names under the sun,shows you how much respect he had for me doesn't it.

[Tony Trout]

I think that cunt is the worst word that could've ever been created. It's degrading to a woman and I would never, ever even think of calling my fiance' that word whether we were joking around or serious.

[Buffy_Lynn]

Originally Posted by Tony Trout

I think that cunt is the worst word that could've ever been created. It's degrading to a woman and I would never, ever even think of calling my fiance' that word whether we were joking around or serious.

I actually agree with you 100%. I hate this word, no matter the context it's used in.

[Brandye]

Agreed. The twentieth century useage has made the word absolutely horrid because it is always used in a derisive and misogynisitc manner. It is interesting that it was quite an acceptable and common noun at one time. Derived (mostly) from ancient Norse, it has variants in all the Germanic languages and was not uncommonly used in literature of middle English writers such as Chaucer. It nearly disappeared (we should have been so lucky) for a few hundred years but showed up in the 19th century and then was used (with some effect) by D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Arthur Miller, and other aspirants to their status, in the early 20th century. From there it seems to have permeated cheap literature and vulgar speech. It remains a more orless acceptable term in Frisian, Norsk and a few other obscure languages but, because most of their speakers also speak English, it has rapidly been tainted with misogyny and fallen into disuse for even the original meaning.

As it became popular again, it took on the misogynist. And, has been attributed to Latin and French with a common example that the shape of the female pubic hair resembles the symbold of cuneiform writing of the Eastern Mediterranean. Beyond its' interest to etymologists, it should be forgotten.

[RedRoses]

The equivelant used in Dutch is "kut". It is simply popular speech. It is even used in sexeducation; they don't refer to it as the "female sexorgan" or something; that would leave all the teens asleep. And calling it "pussy" makes it way to cute and fluffy to have a proper and open conversation... "pussy" is more like a nickname to it in Dutch, as if you don't dare to call it by it's true name With proper sexeducation you want to take all the guilt and "covering up" away.

"kut" is also a word for swearing, though One that is used frequently, calling it out loud whenever something goes wrong. Than again; we use "fuck" as well, to indicate both "having sex" as for swearing. A lot of us really use the English term or the Dutch equivalent "neuken" to describe having sex. And it all comes down to the mechanical activity, without content or added vallue. O well, I understand that historically there was a time when it simply referred to: Fornicate Under the Commend of the King. O yes, off course, your majesty! All in the name of country and king/queen

Personally; whenever I'm actually doing it; I like more emotional content and tenderness to the words. "fuck", "neuken", "kut", even "having sex" are all (very) cold words to me that do not pay homage to our bodies, emotions, etc. I prefer the cute "pussy" and tender "making love".

When it is used for swearing, I'm not much offended. I always say: only swear with something that's part of you or that you'd dare to take into your mouth! Though I don't like swearing in general. Whenever such terms are used to indicate the actual activity or bodypart, I have no problem with it. Not at all... My guess is that's the general attitude over here... You can imagine that I was somewhat surprised when I became a member of this forum, to find out that the language that produced those words, actually bans it... Happy to conform to your standards, off course! Apart from the practicle use of it in this thread, I shall refrain from the use of it.

[Brandye]

We modern anglophones try to clean everything up! I think the Dutch Reformed Church had a hand in that, as well.

[tinyclit]

It never surprises me what a bunch of hung up Victorian era prudes we have here. The excess baggage you all carry around is suffocating you.

Ahem, I have a cunt downstairs. It sure a heck isn't a doctorish vagina or vulva much less a little girlish pussy. <glancing downstairs> Hello there cunt, you're amazing and beautiful. Yes, it's a cunt alright.

[ludaje]

Originally Posted by tinyclit

It never surprises me what a bunch of hung up Victorian era prudes we have here. The excess baggage you all carry around is suffocating you.

Ahem, I have a cunt downstairs. It sure a heck isn't a doctorish vagina or vulva much less a little girlish pussy. <glancing downstairs> Hello there cunt, you're amazing and beautiful. Yes, it's a cunt alright.

You are soo right tinyclit. My wife has a cunt and she loves it and I love and I often tell her how much I love her cunt.
It is not a dirty word.