Why do so many renplay games use the word "sex" for the female geneitals?

Azi VonVeil

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i keep noticing in many games that you will get a line like "and then she licked my SEX" instead of say "then she licked my pussy". just curious as to why? translation error? code? just something the devs do for laughs?
 

Ogrexin

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I dont think i've ever seen that in my entire existence as a hgame player
Very likely a translation error
 

woody554

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it means genitals, so not an error. but also they're probably trying to use a lot of synonyms to avoid repetition. it rarely works out that well, but it's the sort of hacky writing advice you'll see a lot.
 

Azi VonVeil

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I dont think i've ever seen that in my entire existence as a hgame player
Very likely a translation error
idk how, iv seen it like 5 times already....maybe its cuz you play more hentai games where as i dont, mostly CGI or western style 2D
 

Azi VonVeil

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it means genitals, so not an error. but also they're probably trying to use a lot of synonyms to avoid repetition. it rarely works out that well, but it's the sort of hacky writing advice you'll see a lot.
yeah i figured something like that, its kinda off putting, the clunkyness of the dialog XD
 

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Can't say I can remember seeing it a lot. But yeah it's just another word used to describe female genitalia. Probably used to avoid repetition or maybe even to seem a little more higbrow.
 

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I've definitely come across it a few times in content that isn't primarily sexual in nature (think the Witcher books or something, I don't remember where exactly) - so maybe that's where it's filtering in from?
 

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i keep noticing in many games that you will get a line like "and then she licked my SEX" instead of say "then she licked my pussy".
Could it be because they are games for adults ? No adult put his peepee in a girl pussy, they ravage her sex with their dick, after they eaten her cunt.

There's two words to name it, it's "genital" that is way too scholar, and "sex". All other words are slang, and when you aren't a native speaker, you don't necessarily know them, or aren't sure that they effectively fit the context. So, many none native authors just goes for the word that will always fit, and that anyone will understand.
 
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I personally find it also a good way to characterize a person as shy and inexperienced.

In a corruption game, the corrupted person may later refer to a vagina as pussy and even later as cunt, what's a in my eyes a good way to reflect such a change on a verbal level.
 

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There are a ton of words you and use for various forms of genitals. It all depends on the author. Swapping words in a scene can make it read better. Nothing kills a scene faster than constant repetition.

penis: cock, dick, rod, shaft, etc

vagina: sex, lips, peach, pussy, etc.
 

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There are a ton of words you and use for various forms of genitals. It all depends on the author. Swapping words in a scene can make it read better. Nothing kills a scene faster than constant repetition.

penis: cock, dick, rod, shaft, etc

vagina: sex, lips, peach, pussy, etc.
When I'm playing the NSFW RP language models, they always tend to repeat the same words for the genitals. Have no idea how to improve the creativity of such writing styles, perhaps there are some sex vocab I can use inside the prompt to make the response better.
 

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I didn't know about the old time connection, but I assumed it was sex as in short for sex organ?
Maybe if you go back to the old French roots in the 12th century where sex meant genitals. It's that old. It's the other way around though: (To have) "sex" is short for "sexual intercourse" or "sexual relations". This meaning of sex is relatively new, dating from the early 20th century.

This new meaning of sex in English has probably caused sex referring to the genitals to have fallen out of use faster than otherwise. In Swedish, the word for sex is kön, but only in the other meanings, not for "sexual relations". Like in English, you can say sexual relations (könsumgänge), but it has never been shortened to kön, like it has in English with sex. Because of this, kön is still used for the genitals. It sounds a bit old fashioned and nothing you would say in normal speech, but it's still used in anything from newspapers to porn novels. Because of this, I perhaps am a bit too fond of sex meaning genitals in English, but it's a meaning I'm familiar with.
 
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When I'm playing the NSFW RP language models, they always tend to repeat the same words for the genitals. Have no idea how to improve the creativity of such writing styles, perhaps there are some sex vocab I can use inside the prompt to make the response better.
stuff like this is a good resource to have: