Why it’s so hard to put sex in the dictionary – Jesse Sheidlower – Slate Magazine

Thus, you can’t fuck someone in the ass with a dildo, according to the current edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, and Webster’s New World Dictionary. The whore in Portnoy’s Complaint “who fucks the curtain with her bare twat” can’t do that, according to American Heritage, Webster’s New World, Random House, or Encarta. Lesbians can’t fuck each other at all, according to Webster’s New World and Encarta (though if they use a strap-on, Encarta becomes OK with it). Fucking a woman’s breasts is only possible according to Merriam-Webster. Finger-fucking and fist-fucking are impossible according to Webster’s New World, Random House, and American Heritage; Merriam allows it, but only if it’s vaginal and not anal. Only the OED, whose entry for the word I edited, defines fuck to encompass sexual acts beyond “sexual intercourse.”

The extract appeals to my puerile sense of humour. The article is actually rather interesting.

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Paint a perfect picture

If the mark of an exceptional record is its ability to surprise you just HOW good it is every single time you hear it more than a quarter of a century after its release, then this is an absolute bobbydazzler.

And props to the man for his one-handed gee-tar playing skills [3:25-3:29].

I’ve seen him live. He can really do that. The bastard.

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