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Making love. To want to throw up.....

227 replies

TheNaze73 · 13/06/2016 16:51

When people use the expression "making love"

Makes me want to vomit on the spot, puts my teeth on edge & it just sounds, so Mills and Boon

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TooMuchMNTime · 13/06/2016 18:04

I don't like the expression
but I think Marilyn Monroe says it quite well

inaclearingstandsaboxer · 13/06/2016 18:05

DH and call it 'sexy time' in Borat's voice...

We are the last of the romantics...

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 13/06/2016 18:06

I always think of a greasy Italian, making lurrve to a be-youtifool lady, but I'm quite emotionally immature I think Grin

ClashCityRocker · 13/06/2016 18:08

Our PSHE teacher did that - he was in charge of sex ed and referred to it as making love throughout.

Suppose he couldn't refer to it as fucking.

MyBreadIsEggy · 13/06/2016 18:10

YANBU....I hate that expression too. It's so cringey Confused and one of those sickeningly romantic things people think they "should" say because it's more polite than saying shagging/banging/bumping uglies which I guess it kinda is
DH and I tend to use the phrase "happy fun time" Grin

NewLife4Me · 13/06/2016 18:11

Me and my dh make love, have sex, shag, fuck, get it on and any manner of terms that are appropriate at the time.
YABU

Janey50 · 13/06/2016 18:12

My DP says he 'wants to play'. I had never heard that one before I met him.

dowhatnow · 13/06/2016 18:13

doing the deed in our house.

AprilSkies44 · 13/06/2016 18:13

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gingerboy1912 · 13/06/2016 18:17

*DH prefers to announce 'Right, brace yourself...' whilst briskly rubbing his hands together as he approaches the bed.

If he's lucky, I might deign to put my book down during proceedings...*

GrinGrinGrin

BoatyMcBoat · 13/06/2016 18:19

It is cringey. I much prefer shag.

MaQueen · 13/06/2016 18:20

Why, thank you gingerboy I aim to please...

KissMyArse · 13/06/2016 18:22

I always think of a greasy Italian, making lurrve to a be-youtifool lady

That's Swiss Tony. Grin

amigoingabitcrazy · 13/06/2016 18:23

YANBU Grin this post made me grin.

I often get "I really wanna put one through ya!" My dp just oozes romance!

BitOutOfPractice · 13/06/2016 18:24

BF says it sometimes, in a faux french accent, to make me laugh "I am going to make ze sweet sweet lurve to you."

But other than that it's vile

It's a fuck in this house

whensitmyturn · 13/06/2016 18:25

Nope it's a cringey phrase. We refer to it as 'Relations' ( after sexual relations)

fancy some relations later? Dh will say with an eyebrow wiggle!
Don't know how that came about its just stuck.

KateLivesInEngland · 13/06/2016 18:32

It's having a bash in our house.
Fancy a Bash ? Grin
DH picked it up from a friend in his yoof ie, they were at the pub and saw an eligible lady and his friend said Yeah, I'll have a bash at that.
And it stuck unfortunately.

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 13/06/2016 18:33

Thanks, Kissmyarse Swiss Tony was probably who I was trying to picture, what a smooth guy..Wink

thenightsky · 13/06/2016 18:34

Its 'A Bit Of A Seeing-To' in this house.

(married 35 years)

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EllenJanethickerknickers · 13/06/2016 18:36

It was always bonking here, or rumpy pumpy. Blush

I now have Celia by Simon and Garfunkel going through my mind.

'Making love in the afternoon,
With Cecelia, up in my bedroom...'

ShelaghTurner · 13/06/2016 18:37

Much prefer it to fuck. I'm not adverse to a fuck but I'd far rather make love than 95% of the words on this thread. And I'm no prude, it's just too crude for me. Each to their own.

Citizensmith1 · 13/06/2016 18:38

I rather like 'having it off'

:-)

VeryBitchyRestingFace · 13/06/2016 18:38

It pure gees me the dry boak. Envy Envy Envy

However, the phrase "making love" does seem to be the staple go to of any American soap opera I've ever watched and I've watched plenty.

Any other term - fuck, have sex, fornicate, horizontal foxtrot - is off limits to American soap audiences, apparently.

AllegraWho · 13/06/2016 18:40

Too right. It's called coitus. Just ask Dr Cooper.

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