To want to snigger every time I hear the phrase making love

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I'm an actual grown up and have been for several decades.

I don't snigger when I hear "fancy a shag/fuck/quickly or anything like that it's just when it's making love.

And I cannot say it without snorting

So AIBU?

I think of it as "making luurve" in a Barry White type voice
I know what you mean.

YANBU. It is a very twee and childish way of talking about sex.

Yes, ever since Swiss Toni on The Fast Show.

Haha - my friend has a 'habit' of saying 'when we made love" (about her and her partner might i add) I guffaw every time
It just makes me cringe!!!

Haha YANBU it grosses me out, surely people IRL don't say it? I'm gonna ask my oh if he will make love to me just to see what reaction I get

I would rather say to make love with someone I love. To fuck or shag is just that. Not much emotional feeling to it.

I'm the same. I once actually laughed in someone's face when he said he wanted to make love to me.

(Shock horror - we didn't)

Agree.

Makes me cringe a bit too. Reminds me of being at school and our tutor used that phrase. Used to snigger then upon hearing it, still do now.

I'm happy to have sex, shag or even fuck. I will not 'make love'. It is twee and cringy. Neither are adjectives I wish to be associated with my sex life.

'Make love' is awful. It's so coy.

We either fuck or have sex. There is a lot of emotion in the act.

Making love is just stupid.

Personally, I prefer to say 'making the beast with two backs.'

It's corny as all hell.

Or you could just say 'have sex' debbriana
It doesn't have to be sweary

It's Cringey McCringey from Cringeville.

Oh it's a horrible phrase. I can't bear it. In fact, even thinking about typing it out gives me the HORRORS.

Hah I'm so glad I'm not the only one!!!!!!

Hate "make love"

Yes, so do I.

Either snigger or roll my eyes.

*meaning the alternative

YANBU.

Just a pretentious way of saying shag.

I always snigger at a passage in Sense and Sensibility, where it has the older meaning:

"scarcely had they passed the sweep-gate and joined the other carriage, than she found her subject cut up - her hand seized - her attention demanded, and Mr. Elton actually making violent love to her"

Agreed. Also makes me think of Swiss Tony.

Thinking about it - there is somany songs though:
I'll make love to you
Feel like making love
Make love all night long etc etc etc.

It's vomit inducing! Makes me imagine soppy types simpering at each other creepily!

Thank god its not just me. Barry White stylee fine. Otherwise, it so coy/twee. Ultimate turn off. But i like my sex down and dirty. Its no fun if you try and make it 'naice' with terms like that to me.

Its so horrifically middle class , ie. everything has to be sanitised and 'naice'. 'Naice' is vanilla, bland, anodyne - and deeply unsexy.