"Her sex" A weird translation, or..?

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So these past few days I've been playing Roundscape again and something that I keep seeing is sentences like "fucking her sex", "her wet sex", instead of vagina, pussy, etc. Now English isn't my first language, but I don't think I've ever heard those phrases outside of (multiple) porn games.
Is this some literal translation, if so, from what language?

Help me understand please, it's weirding me out. :ROFLMAO:
 

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Really! I wouldn't have guessed that, especially in the context of erotic writing, since it sounds so.. not sexy.. at all.

Well, the more you know, thanks. :giggle:
 

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[...] I keep seeing is sentences like "fucking her sex", "her wet sex", instead of vagina, pussy, etc.
"Vagina" ? It's a porn dialog, not a medical publication.

Note that I don't say this against you, but because the problem is more cultural (in a large meaning of the word), when not educational (still large meaning), than effectively a question of translation.


Hearing a girl say, "look how wet is my vagina", would turn me off way more than hearing her say, "look how wet my sex is". The first one being, for me, way too anatomical than anything else ; in addition to be only partly incorrect. This while hearing her say, to take another word, "look how wet is my fanny", would led me to answer something along, "excuse-me, but haven't your mom told you that you've to keep your panties in front of adults ?"
While it's true that few people effectively use the word "sex" to talk about their genitalia, whatever the language, it stay the word for it. And a word that have an international meaning. Except perhaps "pussy", that seem to be international, any other words used are either anatomical, or analogies. Therefore, either they feel to clean, or end lost in translation ; a translation that happen twice, since it's not just the author that isn't necessarily a fluent English speaker.
 

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Oh, I agree with you there that "vagina" in that context is also too plain and as you say, anatomical sounding. Maybe I should have written "other alternatives for-", but that was beside the point. Even then, it's more descriptive than "sex".

For me 'her sex' sounds as irksome as that nongendered babble these days, (they/them who?)
Speaking of nongendered...
"The sexy couple were having sex at a sex club. After sexually arousing each other, he put his sex in her sex." :LOL:
 
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When you write a lot of sex scenes, you soon get tired with all the "pussy" and "cock". You want to use other words for variation. But it's not that easy to come up with, while making it fit the context, i.e. making it sound hot. I often use "vagina" and "penis", trying to work with the fact that they sound more "anatomical", which I personally think sometimes can be a turn-on. And if you only use more dirty words, they quickly lose their edge. I imagine some writers use "sex" for the same reasons of mixing it up. Personally, I haven't used it, although I've considered it a few times. But in the end, it sounds a bit too odd to me. (Not a native English speaker)
 

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When you write a lot of sex scenes, you soon get tired with all the "pussy" and "cock". You want to use other words for variation. But it's not that easy to come up with, while making it fit the context, i.e. making it sound hot. I often use "vagina" and "penis", trying to work with the fact that they sound more "anatomical", which I personally think sometimes can be a turn-on. And if you only use more dirty words, they quickly lose their edge.
A writer using euphemisms too much can be grating. If it seems like an exercise to stuff in words you found on google results it's too much variation, especially when it's in dialogue.
 
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A writer using euphemisms too much can be grating. If it seems like an exercise to stuff in words you found on google results it's too much variation, especially when it's in dialogue.
I see no mention of euphemisms or words found on google. It sounds like you're saying that using something other than pussy or cock is too much variation. Yes, dialogues are special but far from all text is dialogue.
 

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A writer using euphemisms too much can be grating. If it seems like an exercise to stuff in words you found on google results it's too much variation, especially when it's in dialogue.
This. In the past 24 years I have written hundreds of pr0n stories. I use 2 variations for penis and 2-3 for vagina and that's that. If you start wandering too far from the common words you'll make your readers cringe.
 

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This. In the past 24 years I have written hundreds of pr0n stories. I use 2 variations for penis and 2-3 for vagina and that's that. If you start wandering too far from the common words you'll make your readers cringe.
I agree, but I have only done this for 1,5 years and the repetitiveness was getting to me from basically day one. Pussy, vagina, vulva. Cock, penis, dick. I doubt I can last 24 years without adding words like "sex" to the vocabulary.
 
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"The sexy couple were having sex at a sex club. After sexually arousing each other, he put his sex in her sex."
This is my main gripe with the word. Each individual use case would be fine but it usually turns the writing into a homogeneous slurry which is neither informative nor arousing. Especially once you factor in that most games will have additional elements beyond the main writing where the word is much more valuable for its brevity, no real point in wasting screen space to spell out "intercourse" or "penetration" as a menu button most of the time.

Still, I'd rather read paragraphs of "sexing her sex" than even one more "it's lips" or "you're cock".