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!!

@takealettermsjones

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!

Yes! Spot on!

@NotSeenBulling

Podging.

Bet that's what Billy Bunter called it

I’ve always thought I must have a hang up as I hate the term “making love” too, it makes me shudder. I think it is just too Romantic fiction-esque.

Mind you, my late MiL referred to it as “fortnightly unpleasantness” and I have never been sure whether she was half joking or not. That’s what I call it now (regardless of the frequency/pleasantness) and it has to be said in a slightly Celia Johnson voice.

Yuk, I agree, OP. It makes me think of tacky love songs, Barry White etc

'Making Love' 🤢🤢🤢

In our house it's 'snuggles' if we're feeling cutesy, and 'fucking' if we're feeling dirty 😁

Lolling at the posters who think they're the only ones to have a romantic fuck

Making love is grim, we usually call it a shag.

Better than my gran though, who calls it THAT. As in, "you don't still bother with THAT do you?!"

Ah yes @FunTimes2020, Barry White et al, crooning to the little lady in their life < not envy.

It’s a bit Alan Partridge.

No, no, no - you're thinking of 'classic intercourse' - but only as a retrospective description

All of these terms described on here are far too modern for us. We simply 'know' each other.

Vom!

Sex with someone you love is or should be better than a random shag. But its still sex.

Speak for yourself. I've had some incredible sex with randoms or flings.

My friend used to say
"Knock boots"
Never heard anyone else say it! But it beats "making love"

Urgh I don’t know how anyone says it with a straight face!

@TechnoDino

I’m with you. DH sometimes says it to wind me up!

Same here!

I don't think it's romantic but I also don't think it's any worse than any other of the cutesy or 'hilarious' terms used on this thread. Hide the sausage, ffs [eyeroll]

Even Alan Partridge doesn’t ‘make love’.

I don’t consider a slow, romantic shag to be love making any more than a quickie behind the wheelie bins is. It’s all just porking at the end of the day.

I almost threw up when a man I had recently started dating stared at me intensely (we were at his and chatting and drinking) and said, ' 'Would it frighten you if I told you I wanted to make love to you?'

That one sentence turned me from not being sure about him to being totally sure that I was binning him.

Having said that, I agree with PP, I used to find 'making love' a cringey phrase till I met a guy who really did have sex in a making love way and it was great. And that made me think - ok - it can be like this! Cool!

I think there are a dearth of good names for sex. My favourite one is from some part of Africa. They say 'laughing in the bushes' which is brilliant as it sounds so happy and joyful! Doesnt' translate so well over hear I guess. 'Laughing in the deserted multi-story car park' doesn't have quite such a ring to it.

*fucking! Although porking is a good term too

We call it swinging from the chandeliers

@JustYourAverageSue

My partner and I just call it 'Bumping Uglies'

That’s worse 🤮

I wouldn't call sex that, but sometimes it does feel like that ifyswim. Depends on our mood I guess, usually just stare at him til we laugh and he can tell what I'm after!

@YouokHun

Ah yes *@FunTimes2020*, Barry White et al, crooning to the little lady in their life

"Will the 20:17 be arriving in Paddington this fair evening?"

Eurgh. Makes me want to vom. I especially hate when it’s referred to in the lyrics of a song. Usually some angsty male singer (think Thom Yorke singing High and Dry).

I think anything it's called is a bit nauseating. I don't think we call it anything! Do you want to have sex sounds very clinical to me. I think we just do it 😂

On a mostly unrelated note, I’ve had the song ‘Move Closer’ randomly stuck in my head for the last hour. Come on here, seen your thread title, and got a bit weirded out.

P.S. if my husband referred to ‘making love’ I’d probably laugh too much for the actual act.

@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...

Agree love making is much more appropriate in a loving relationship, f*cking or sex is what you do in a non committal casual relationship, I like being old fashioned!