Yeah, OK, fair enough. I am reasonably sold on this being a better word choice here, but am sad about there not being two terms. “Fuck” is primarily a curse word in my vocabulary, and I don’t see any particularly good reason for not having a different word with the right connotations that expresses having sex in non-euphemistic ways.[1]
Such is life. Let it be known that in the absence of the quoted paragraphs, I don’t think I would have understood what you meant to convey (or like, it would have only been one of a few hypotheses of what you tried to convey, with another one being more dominant).
Hmm, when reading “fuck”, my first reaction was to feel the vibes of a kind of ~sleazy man that ranges from actively harmful to merely having different tastes than me. Then I thought “Ah, it’s John, he probably didn’t mean that”.
I’d say I then implicitly got like a fourth of the intended meaning. The main other meaning I got was “casualness”. I tend to use “fuck” a lot as a generic intensifier in casual conversation, though I (ironically) don’t tend to use it to talk about sex, seemingly mostly due to a flinch about coming off as sleazy (I do not feel the same flinch when I imagine saying “Alice fucked me”). I think this is why I thought that that’s most of what was meant.
Yeah, OK, fair enough. I am reasonably sold on this being a better word choice here, but am sad about there not being two terms. “Fuck” is primarily a curse word in my vocabulary, and I don’t see any particularly good reason for not having a different word with the right connotations that expresses having sex in non-euphemistic ways.[1]
Such is life. Let it be known that in the absence of the quoted paragraphs, I don’t think I would have understood what you meant to convey (or like, it would have only been one of a few hypotheses of what you tried to convey, with another one being more dominant).
Which of course isn’t in any possible way your fault!
Hmm, when reading “fuck”, my first reaction was to feel the vibes of a kind of ~sleazy man that ranges from actively harmful to merely having different tastes than me. Then I thought “Ah, it’s John, he probably didn’t mean that”.
I’d say I then implicitly got like a fourth of the intended meaning. The main other meaning I got was “casualness”. I tend to use “fuck” a lot as a generic intensifier in casual conversation, though I (ironically) don’t tend to use it to talk about sex, seemingly mostly due to a flinch about coming off as sleazy (I do not feel the same flinch when I imagine saying “Alice fucked me”). I think this is why I thought that that’s most of what was meant.
That is useful info, thanks.