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Pretty in neon pink

(Generally on the raunchy side, though not actually obscene — but too heavy with sex toys (including some truly alarming dildos) and anal talk for kids and the sexually modest, who should stay away.)...

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Kiss my nuts, Sunny!

(There will be man-man sexual acts, frivolously though accurately described, so probably not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) From Alex Elliott on Facebook this morning: the bag of cherries,...

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Powerfully eruptive, yet respectful of his anatomy

(Men’s underwear and its symbolic values, frank talk about male sexuality, but otherwise not over lines; use your judgment.) Powerfully eruptive, yet respectful of his anatomy: the vaunted twin virtues...

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Fireworks! Bang!

This posting originally came in two parts, united in fact by a sheer accident of timing, that two celebratory — fireworks! bang! — things happened  during a July weekend in the US: the first is a...

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Flipping with the cowboys

(Substantial section on English syntax and semantics, but even that is about raunchy sexual vocabulary — so it’s pretty much wall to wall about sex between men, in street language, with photos:...

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Mr. Nutz sez …

… “Pull my tail, and see my eye light up!” Mr. Nutz is a squirrel of brass, also a notorious flasher (if you don’t pull his tail, he’ll do it himself, in the road) — all at once a squirrel, a brass...

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Barsotti, Diogenes, and getting laid

(Obviously, some sexual vocabulary is coming, with discussion of the acts referred to in plain language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) Arrived at my house a little while back: the...

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Sexy Italians

(References to sex between men in several places, so not to everyone’s taste.) The centerpiece is this 1900 painting Italian Man with a Rope by John Singer Sargent: (#1) Though reproductions are on...

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Calendar pages

Emily Menon Bender on Facebook yesterday: “Office calendar, bringing me joy”, with the page from her Tatsuya Tanaka Miniature Life wall calendar (with wire hanger) for the current week of 2022,...

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2/2/22

(Jam-packed with male bodies and man-man sex discussed in street language — admittedly, along with a lot of other stuff, but there’s no denying the high raunch content — so not even remotely suitable...

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Happy catamites

(About male-male sex in street language, definitely not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) Unearthed this morning — amidst piles of note pages with material for, I estimate, about 500 blog...

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Four approaches to sucking someone’s socks off

(Full of linguistic expressions referring to genitals and sexual acts, but not depicting these acts or treating them as cultural practices.) A heavy-linguistics follow-up to my 11/5/21 posting “I want...

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Magritte’s #9 Son

(Somewhat astonishingly, this is going to end up in over-the-line raunchy territory — not for kids or the sexually modest — with a celebration of a character who’s both a feminist and a dirty slut, who...

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The self-rising mascot

(Considerable discussion of sexual practices in this posting — largely in cautious language, but some may find the topics — male masturbation and male-male sexual acts — distasteful.) To understand the...

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Nelly and Nancy

E-mail from a fem friend and colleague in the UK — the personal details are important — on 2/28: I was thinking recently about the word nelly. It’s another Americanism I think. But it gets used quite a...

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April is the most Abrahamic month

It’s still April Eve, but I have a big carton of April-related things, which I will unpack for you a day in advance. To start with, tomorrow is (as always) April Fool’s Day and also the great linguist...

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Bunnies with baskets: more dirty fluff

(Warning: much of this is heavy in male bodies and man-on-man sex in very plain language — you know me, Al — so it’s not for kids or the sexually modest.) Yesterday’s installment — “Bunnies with...

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Riffs on squat

(There will, as the title tells you, be riffs on squat, well, on squat. Since I’m given to finding my material in louche and faggy places, there will be brief encounters with squat — short and thick,...

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Briefly: the praying mantis cartoon

It’s beheading day on AZBlog! (See my earlier posting today, “non-profits”.) In the 4/4/22 issue of The New Yorker, the finalists in the magazine’s Cartoon Caption Contest announced in the 3/21 issue,...

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Eight Days in Spring

Tuesday to Tuesday, linguistics on the march to take over the comics: the Zippy strip of Tuesday 3/29 (on names and things) and the xkcd cartoon for today, Tuesday 4/5 (on esthetic responses to words:...

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