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This person put together a poll, with 3.5k responses, of lewd terms used in fiction. Results.
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Zita
MerryMariLwyd
get in here
MerryMariLwyd
"Notable omissions: Slick" add it cowards
MerryMariLwyd
also these are funny because you can kinda track what genre is popular based on the language, the dark romance girlies popped off on this one
MerryMariLwyd
member, manhood and various floral euphemisms being hated also tracks considering the amount of readers that probably got their early romance hits in the 90s-early 00s
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I was a bit surprised to see 'cunt' rate so highly.
MerryMariLwyd
that's the dark romance influence. specifically for chapters written in the male character's pov or his dialogue
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like general contemporary romance heroes are also allowed to use coarser language depending on what role they're filling, but best bet is mafia type romance
MerryMariLwyd
possibly also some monster fuckery, but it's the same principle of this would be a word the hero uses, not the heroine
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