Sex and Dirty? Where is the link?

[cacian]

I often read threads with titles such as erotica and dirty bits and wonder why such a bad name to a something humans do so naturally if anything procreation is one of them so it cannot that dirty.

I quote dirt with something that gets used a lot like clothes or things but then one washes it and uses again.

Why quote sex with 'dirty weekends' or 'raunchy' when sex is the very core and reason we humans are on this earh?

I could not find RAUNCH so I looked up 'raunchy' and this what came out:


bawdy, coarse, earthy, lecherous, lewd, lustful, lusty, ribald, salacious, sexual, sexy, smutty, steamy (informal) suggestive


Surely coarse is not right!!

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Well, with the profusion of various body fluids that goes along with sex, it can definitely be a dirty, or messy (probably a better word), business . . . if you do it right.

[Bluehound]

All those negative words which we use for sexy time stem from the Victorian era and from the religious.
They tried to put us off sex by calling it coarse, earthy, dirty and nasty.
In a way we have turned that on it's head and saying someone looks "dirty" now can actually mean that you find them very sexually appealing.

[cacian]

Well, with the profusion of various body fluids that goes along with sex, it can definitely be a dirty, or messy (probably a better word), business . . . if you do it right.

Doesn't that depend where and how you are going about it?

All those negative words which we use for sexy time stem from the Victorian era and from the religious.

Interesting. It makes you think what it is with the Victorian they did not especially like about sex that much to call it worse names. I believe there was more to it then met the eyes.
May be lots of sexual abuse and affairs were going on behind closed doors and the only way they could express it was to call it all sorts. I mean Victoria was not a particularyly enthusiastic role figure. She was as miserable as sin.
There has got to be a reason.
What is it that did freak the Victorians to thinking such hiddeous terms.


They tried to put us off sex by calling it coarse, earthy, dirty and nasty.
In a way we have turned that on it's head and saying someone looks "dirty" now can actually mean that you find them very sexually appealing.
Well they obviously barked off the wrong tree thinking words will put of anyone let alone anybody.
I think the more they preached against the more there was of it.