To think that the word 'tits' (as in 'breasts') is a little too vulgar ?

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I'm quite prepared to be told I'm being prudish or precious on this subject. For years I've been uncomfortable using the word and so I don't. Fair enough. But plenty of people I know say tits without reservation in ordinary conversation, regardless of company and it just grates with me. I'd be surprised if many people outside the medical or lingerie businesses, for example, routinely say breasts. And there's a few less offensive breast pseudonyms such as boobs and bosoms which I'm happier with. Similarly, when people refer to a penis as a cock - I really can't stand that. Of the alternatives, I've yet to make up my mind which is the least worst between willy and knob.

What do you think ? Am I over-thinking this ? BTW, I am male, mid-forties.

YANBU. I cringe so much when I hear it. Thankfully no one I know says that sort of thing!

roll TBH the only ones on your list that I feel comfortable saying are "breasts" and "bust". "Bosoms" sound like we're in a medieval fantasy setting, "boobs" sound frivolous, and everything else makes me want to clutch my proverbial pearls.

I kind of know what you mean, to be honest! I'm no prude, but I don't like the word tits either, or cock, for talking about the body parts. As I've typed this I've realised, however, that I have no problem calling someone 'a tit' or 'a cock' if they are being one. I'm weird.

My male GP referred to them as boobs.I was a little

Bristols

Titties gives me the shivers a bit, not so much tits though. I usually say breasts or boobs. Don't mind norks, though I only see it mentioned on MN. Willy for penis though. I think it's comical.
Here's a treat for you OP. I was just listening to this the other day, been ages since I've heard it.

Blue tits are really rather lovely.

I hate "tits" too, op. It really puts my back up whenever i hear it. I feel that in when i was in my formative years it was a word owned by males and used in a way that indicated they were a discerning appraiser of women and girls. It makes me feel like an ant everytime i hear it, even when women use it now.

I think the OP has a point in some cases. Not a word I think appropriate in the context of feeding a baby, in my opinion.

I don't like tits when referring to breasts directly but I don't mind the word when something's gone 'tits up'. Or as a curse word - my mum has always said this rather than the f-word or whatever.

As for cock - as a reader of a certain genre of fiction calling it a penis is too clinical and 'manhood' or 'member' too try hard, just call it what it is. COCK.

roll TBH the only ones on your list that I feel comfortable saying

It wasn't my list actually-I was just querying the use of the word bust being that 'bad'.

I use boobs myself'

My parents have ever since I remember talked about titty-feeding rather than breastfeeding. I can't stand it! Makes me think of Benny Hill or The Sun.

I have a female friend who won't use the word tit or tits. Not even arse over tit. But she will use wanker, prick, twat, cock, knob jockey, fuck, fucker and shit constantly.

Although she doesn't actually shit constantly. Obviously. She'd need medical help

Funbags

LOL ShatnersWig

Mammaries.

Odd, you've landed on the two alternative words for anatomical parts that I really dislike, too.

'Tits' sounds incredibly dismissive or something.

'Cock' sounds a bit porno, or something a teenage boy would use in his excitement over his appendage.

And I don't think I'm usually a prude when it comes to slang terms for parts (see username)...

The OP is here to be titillated. The verb is appropriate because the thread has weirdness written all over it. Ugh

I must admit I don't understand why someone would make a thread to get their jollies when there's actual porn to look at?! But maybe the thrill is tricking people into talking about this stuff for the wrong reasons? I must confess I don't understand these sorts of fetishes, that's for sure.

Slightly o/t but it is said that Mary Whitehouse one turned on her radio and head the words tits like coconuts.. She switched off in horror and wrote a suitably angry letter to the BBC who sent her the full script of that week's Nature Notes and drew her attention to the next words while sparrows will eat anything.

LOL, Andrew - that's brilliant!

It just shows that a lot of the professionally-offended see life through a different lens to the rest of us. She probably had a dirtier mind than most in the end!

Andrewofgg;

That reminds me of Fanny Craddock's husband telling the viewers that he hopes "your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's"!!

Andrew Sorry to be pedantic but the actual quote was "tits like coconuts... but sparrows prefer breadcrumbs" and it was a letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales (fictional of course) on BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue in the days when Humph was still chairman.

LOL, caz