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

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tanfield90 · 30/03/2017 13:19

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.

OP posts:
Magicpaintbrush · 31/03/2017 12:27

I don't much like the word tits either - I dunno it sounds somehow a bit misogynistic or disrespectful but I don't quite know why??? Norks is worse though! They're the sort of words I'd expect to come up in a seedy misogynistic conversation being had by a group of men with no respect for women. Though I could be reading too much into this..... Grin

llangennith · 31/03/2017 12:27

I wouldn't use the word tits in conversation with my DC or DGC but I would use the word boobs.
Tits is just a bit too crass.

Andrewofgg · 31/03/2017 14:52

Shatner I heard that story, true or false, before ISIHAC was thought of!

NightWanderer · 31/03/2017 14:58

Is Titty Twister an actual thing then? I'm going to be looking at it wondering now.

ShatnersWig · 31/03/2017 15:12

Andrew Maybe Mary Whitehouse was secretly Mrs Trellis, sending innuendo to Humph for years and laughing at her double life!

Andrewofgg · 31/03/2017 15:33

ShatnersWig You have solved the Riddle of the Ages Grin

kali110 · 31/03/2017 23:06

NightWanderer tittytwister was the name of a bar is a big film Grin

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