There must be something that doesn’t sound too extreme in either direction - like stilted, clinical speech (can be rather awkward during sex), or veering into baby-talk (sometimes even more awkward).
If there is, I’d certainly like some input.
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Holy Tapdancing Christ, could this be it? Like it it? c
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I think it has to do with demeaning women in the manner of reducing them into nothing but a bodily orifice.
I’m simply unaffected because that particular slang was never part of the local vernacular where I grew up.
Like the word “cock,” it just sounds corny and ineffectual to me.
I like the word “yoni” from the kama sutra.
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Whenever I’ve heard an American use the word ‘cunt’, it was invariably used as a weapons-grade insult and typically directed at a female. American men don’t seem to consider ‘cunt’ a friendly elbow to their fellow guys the way the Aussies do. I wish it were otherwise. For now, it seems to remain an incisive term here.
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If I were to use that word, I would only direct it toward men, because that’s the way I’m used to seeing it and hearing it used. I’m just surprised it’s used so differently and so much more offensively in the US than elsewhere in the English-speaking world.
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Orange, artificially flavored, banana marshmallow does sound like one of the fun ways people have been describing him lately.
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Without that word we would have never had this most 1990s music video ever.
Maybe that’s a good thing.
I remember this played constantly on Video Jukebox Network, and I feel very old now.
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I don’t think he’s entirely incorrect considering how many rapists hide out under the protection of their college sports administration.
But yeah, that’s not “guy talk”.
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Because cunts and twats are great?
At least douchebags are harmful.
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Well I was out of the loop for that stuff by 1990… and wow that was definitely… something.
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I’ve definitely noticed a difference in its usage by Americans vs the British and associated colonial crowd. While still an offensive term it’s definitely used more casually.
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And yet “cunt” comes from Kunti, the name of a goddess. Kunti’s a first name, even.
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Pussy meaning vagina and pussy meaning weak man have entirely different etymologies as well.
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Not heard that. Always thought it was like, Old German/Old Norse origin. Where does it come from?
(Not nitpicking, I just like looking up swear words in the dictionary. 
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The insult roughly means “wedge” and was slang for prostitute from what I know.
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India – IIRC from Hinduism. All the Kuntis I’ve ever met were Indian descent.
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Cool. So one of those Indo-European words then. Awesome, thanks. 
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I personally have never heard an Australian (or Scot, they love the word!) use it to describe the vagina. It only seems to be used in that context by Americans (or in some feminist writings as a reclamation).
I mean, I wouldn’t go around the office shouting it out, and its origins are fairly clear, but round here it’s used as either an insult to someone being a particular prick (oh hey) or a term of affection to some matey type.
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Welp, I’ve got this. I thought Saxon myself, but go far enough back and those European tribes kind of blend together.
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This should have a big impact on all the Republican voters in the US who subscribe to the Guardian.
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