To want Porn Star Martinis to be renamed?

[samarrange]

I don't think I'm a prude, but I feel a bit self-conscious ordering "A porn star martini, please". It's a shame because I quite like them.

We went into a "family-friendly" bar from a chain called "The Lounges" (every one has a different name, like Albero Lounge, Edmundo Lounge, etc) and on the menu there it says "Passion Fruit Martini... a cocktail fit for a movie star", which nicely conveys the idea without everyone having to explain to their curious 7-year-old reading the menu what a porn star is.

(The same chain has also renamed Sex On The Beach" to "Lounge On The Beach"... that one wouldn't put me off so much in the original form, but I don't like peach flavour drinks anyway 😂.)

It's a terrible name and I don't think it's used very much any more, thank goodness. Who ever thought that "porn star" was the term to use to promote a drink- just makes me think of trafficked women and anal tear injuries.

I agree, it’s a horrible name!

I agree. Awful name. I remember a friend of mine ordered one and the sleazy bartender explaining in great detail how the fig garnish looked like a vagina and that is part of the reason for the name. He was vile. Vom.

I agree, I just ask for passionfruit martini now

I mean, you are being a prude but sometimes that’s ok.

It's a passionfruit, not a fig and did she ask?

I love them, but I won’t order them. So I make sure I gav the ingredients at home.

This one bothers me more than porn star martini or sex on the beach ever will.

It's an adult name for an adult drink.

Just don't order it around your children or tell them it's a drink for adults

It's a nasty name. Don't particularly care if that makes me a prude by some standards.

When you think about it, forcing women to use ridiculously sexualised names for things they want to order is kind of creepy and boundary pushing

Crikey. I'd love it if this was the only thing in my life to get triggered over.

It's not; you're allowed to be concerned about - and start threads, if you wish - on as many things as you want to.

Passionfruit martini such a finer name all round, but as an aside, I now always think of the Motherland episode at Amanda's drinks party, where the answer to why it's named the pornstar, is because it relaxes your anus!

Yes I agree with you. A few times I didn't order the cocktail I wanted because we had small children with us, and didn't want to have to explain!

I feel the same about the use of the word pimp. There’s a fish and chip van called ‘Pimp my fish’ or similar where DMIL lives and it just makes me think of exploited women so I won’t ever use it.

Nope. ‘Prude’ means ‘: a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or especially : a woman who shows or affects extreme modesty’

Objecting to the normalisation and glamourising of porn isn’t remotely ‘excessive’ or ‘priggish’.

He was stupid as well as sleazy then.

Objecting to something objectionable doesn't imply the OP is ‘triggered’.

Even if they only used the tacky names in adults-only places, it's still perfectly possible to object to them being called that.

Names like pornstar martini, sex on the beach, slow comfortable screw etc. didn't just come about organically; it's clear as day that there are influential saddos out there who get off on the idea of making loads of people say inappropriate and potentially awkward/embarrassing names if they want to order a cocktail - and especially the knowledge that women in particular will predictably be frequently leered at and receive unwanted comments from pervy men as a direct result.

The word 'adult' used to be a neutral word for anything that wasn't appropriate for, interesting to, aimed at or too complicated for children. Yes, this also included things like sex; but I hate the way that the lowest common denominator has taken over; meaning that the entire gamut of mature human culture and civilisation is effectively reduced to a Carry On film.

Iirc for a while they did brand them as ‘pornstar’, but got slated for it.

It’s an alcoholic drink for over 18’s. Whilst I understand it’s an explicit, YUBU in this case.

I don't mind the name. It's my favourite cocktail.

Was originally a Maverick Martini.

Should it go back to that?

There is one called "a long hard screw against a wall". I've no idea if that's a thing or just something "hilarious" a bar by me has come up with. I can't be bothered to Google.

Tbh the names of some things do put me off ordering them. I just cba and would rather just ask for a dry white wine.