Making Love

[ProcrastinationIsMySuperPower]

My DH insists that the term "making love" is romantic.

I think it's cringe-y and old-fashioned. I think having sex is just that, why call it something else?

Really interested to get some other opinions... Also hoping to prove DH wrong (in a totally light hearted way).

So - YABU - Making love is oh so romantic
YANBU - call it what it is!!

Boak

Pissing myself at “rumpy”. How alluring

Have u guys never had slow emotional sex with your partner ? It's happened on occasion and it definitely wasn't just fucking on those occasions. We'd call it making love 🤷‍♀️

Depends how it's said. And by whom. If it's the average bloke maybe not. If it's Boyz II Men, hmmm maybe I'd like it better!

I think it is sometimes about the best way to describe it. But not very often.

“Let’s bang” is my phrase of choice

Nippy nippy!

@WoolieLiberal

I think this might be a marmite thread.

I love the term “making love” or “love making”.

The terms “shag” and “f*” are the ones that make me cringe.

Each to their own I suppose...

I think there's a big difference

Neither term makes me cringe bit there's a major difference between having sex and making love, which I now like to call "coitus" 😂

It always makes me think of Hamlet:

"Nay but to live
In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed
Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love
Over the nasty sty"

(He's obsessing about his mother's sex life, so definitely shudder, not romantic)

My preferred term is "having it off" (I watched a lot of Carry On films when I was a child).

I loathe "doing the deed" / "DTD" on Mumsnet. It sounds so furtive and dark.

"Making love" is far too cheesy.

@Tillytrotterisarotter

Its nippy nippy surely

I think that there are different types of sex and sometimes when we are having a particular kind of sexual encounter it really feels like our bond is being reconnected or strengthened somehow so making love is a really good description of those times to me and my other half.

I don’t much like coy euphemisms for anything, which is essentially how “making love” began as a phrase, rather than being a particularly romantic way of describing sex. It would make me laugh if DP referred to it as that, but if other people think it’s a phrase which best reflects the style in which they have sex, then all power to them.

I've not heard "bumping uglies" before
You get an education on mumsnet!

We don't say it, I think it's a bit wet especially from a bloke.

Hanky panky.

It's just shagging. Making love 🙄

A good rogering!

Surely everyone says this.

I really dislike the term "boning" but my worst one is "jiggy"
"Making love" used to be said in corny romantic films when they meant kissing etc. but they were not really referring to actual sex. It is not something I have ever said and past husbands and partners have not either, thankfully!

Both.
There's making love and there's fuck.
Emotional in love sex can be romantic.
Depends who you're with.
Shag makes me cringe

I hate the phrase "making love". So cringey, wet and old fashioned.
🤣 at "rumpy", though
My preferred word is fuck

If dh said he wanted to 'make love to me'
I'd literally clamp my legs shut and die a little inside
Always been f*ing in this house!

I’m indifferent to it as a phrase. DH however ironically-but-not refers to my clitoris as a lotus flower so I’ll just share that with the group.

@viixie

Have u guys never had slow emotional sex with your partner ? It's happened on occasion and it definitely wasn't just fucking on those occasions. We'd call it making love 🤷‍♀️

Now and again we have. Isn't that just slow f*ing?

Always reminds me of Scrubs and :

Jordan: Perry, if you don't do what she says, I'll stop having sex with you and start making love to you.
Dr. Cox: Where is that bastard?! KELSO!

Also, I can only hear 'making love' as 'making lurrrvvvvee' for some reason.

We have sexy time, boinking, shagging, naked wrestling, and sex, depending on mood.

How does he use? “Let’s make love”?

I couldn’t deal with that.