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SemFest 13
Judgments have been made, and my abstract for the Stanford Semantics Festival 13 (March 16th) has been accepted (along with those from Jason Grafmiller, Ingrid Falkum, Elizabeth Traugott, Cleo...
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Parts: vulva and vagina
After I posted my first piece on the (human) body and its parts, with four diagrams illustrating vocabulary for the external parts, Ellen Seebacher complained on Google+: Okay, can I register my...
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to oxter
A very small thing, but entertaining (to me at any rate): the verb to oxter, in this passage from Bernie McGill’s The Butterfly Cabinet (2011), p. 201: Then you came back, the pair of you, dripping...
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Affliction
(From my life, with some technical language from anatomy.) These have been hard days. It started maybe five weeks ago, with occasional twinges in my right hip. As time went on, the twinges turned into...
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Little popliteal moments
More adventures of the Woolly Mammoth and his Platinum Wonder Hip, with some anatomical technicality. For some days, I’ve been able to rise from sitting to standing entirely from my legs, without...
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Dude Wipes
A few days ago on Facebook, Leith Chu wondered, about Dude Wipes from the Dude Products people: Why hasn’t anybody mentioned these before? (link) The Dude Products Dude Wipes Box of 30 [$9.99] on...
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soft/hard
(Only a bit about language. High sexuality content.) I’ve posted earlier, on AZBlogX, about pairings of photos of men clothed vs. unclothed: contrasts that provoke thought about clothing and the body...
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Flowering pears and secretions
The local landscape has been brightened for some time by flowering pear trees, which are planted all over the place; there’s even a Flowering Pear Drive in Cupertino. These are mostly Callery pears....
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genital nudity
While gathering examples of Michael Reh’s male photography, I came across several sites that referred to genital nudity as present or absent in various photographer’s work (so far as I can tell,...
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tapping
(Not about some sexual practice you’ve never heard of before, and not about the sexual slang tap ‘fuck’, but about a kind of self-administered therapy involving tapping the body with the fingertips.)...
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Naked came the ad
In the spirit of “Zesty Anderson Davis” (with the actor skirting nudity in the service of Kraft Zesty Italian salad dressing), Chris Ambidge has pointed me to two other ads that go all the way (while...
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twerking
The latest dance rage. From Wikipedia: Twerking is a “dance move that involves a person shaking their upper hips and lower hips in an up and down bouncing motion, causing them to shake, ‘wobble’ and...
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pizzle
In looking at the simile piss like a horse (here), I came across references to the pizzles of male horses (from which copious piss streams, famously). Pizzle — ‘the penis of an animal, esp. a bull’...
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Odds and ends: portmanteaus to penises
An accumulation of miscellanea: portmanteaus, porn flick and pornstar names, (in the continuing Remarkable Underwear series) black lace skivvies, and (in the continuing News for Penises series), the...
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‘male anus viewed as a sexual organ’
Yes, there are words — compound nouns — specifically for this meaning, but unless you’re into gay porn, you might not be familiar with man pussy, boy pussy, man cunt, boy cunt, man hole, or boy hole....
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Two portmanteaus in the mail
Two portmanteaus in my mail: a hybrid animal (not new on this blog, but offered here because I now have a really adorable photo) and yet another way of referring to the male anus viewed as a sexual...
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Gang showers
An image sent to me by Chris Ambidge: (#1) The sheer fun of showering together! The illustration shows one style of gang shower, with shower heads arranged around a central pillar. In the other main...
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On AZBlogX: couples, rear views
Over on AZBlogX, three recent postings: “Three couples”, with three images of male couples (all with genital nudity, one with man-man sex); and “Rear views” and “Assclefts”, with images of men’s...
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crouch, squat, hunker
It begins with this photo by male photographer Howard Roffman: (#1) (This is a scanned-in image of a postcard that I will use to make an Asterixion. It bears the marks of a rough passage through the...
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Forearms
(Only a little bit about language.) In assembling material about shirtlessness, I came across this arresting photo: (#1) This from a site that has a lot on knitting and men’s bodies, among other...
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