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3 Apr 2019

Thanks so much! That makes a lot of sense, that it's contextual and something you'll start to intuit as you read and write more.

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2 Apr 2019

[Apologies if this was discussed elsewhere - I looked through all of the posts here and didn't see it, but might have missed it]

I recently started writing my first erotic story (working on settling a bet - I argued I would be a better lesbian than my female friend would be as a gay man) and realized that I was struggling significantly with terminology. I watch some porn but don't read much of it and found myself somewhat befuddled by word choice.

Does "pussy" have a vulgar connotation vs. "vagina"? Is labia too medical? How about "clitoral hood", or just "hood"?

I find description of the smell of "pussy juice" to be overly graphic personally, but is that considered fairly mainstream?

I suppose my ultimate goal is to write explicit erotica that is generally accessible to, perhaps, the Game of Thrones-watching crowd. The question then is: is there any sort of guidelines or even rough classification of words by their "hardness"? For example, this is pretty well-established in movies visually:

G:
- Shirtless men in swim trunks
- Women in bikini swimsuits
- Kiss on lips

PG:
- Men in small underwear or thong
- Lingerie
- French kissing

PG-13:
- Bare breasts
- Bare butts (M/F)

R:
- Non-close-up vagina
- Flaccid penis
- Sucking on nipples
- Simulated sex

NC-17:
- Close up vagina
- Erect penis
- Low-detail oral sex
- Non-simulated intercourse

XXX:
- Graphic / close-up sex
- Ejaculation
- Rule 34
- The rest of the internet

Thanks so much for the help!

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