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Prompt: How do you feel about the word ‘moist’?
I love it.
I have never understood the hate that ‘moist’ gets, and frankly I think it’s just part of the subculture of outrage that so many people seem to subscribe to lately. It’s such an innocuous word. Is it that it could imply something sexual? Bodily fluids? Sweat and cum and spit and blood?
“Dr. Paul Thibodeau, a professor of psychology at Oberlin College, suggests that up to 20 per cent of American English speakers are averse to the word “moist.” … People who were averse to “moist” also responded similarly to words such as “phlegm,” and “vomit,” leading him to believe that the disgust is related in part to the association with bodily functions.“
It would seem that the aversion is more about illness than the messiness of sex, which makes sense from an evolutionary point of view. The negative reaction to it (often very strong) always feels a bit puritanical and sex negative to me, but apparently the disgust for ‘moist’ is not just a sexual association.
I happen to like ‘moist’; I find it mildly onomatopoeic. There’s something lush and damp about the hum of the M sound. The “oist” reminds me of the plink-bloop sound of a droplet of water, or that clever sound people make when they flick their cheek. Also, the T particularly; so sharp and hollow against the rest, a perfect punctuation at the end of such a small, but watery, word.
Continue reading the article quoted above
Where do you fall on the great moist debate? Pro? Against? Indifferent? Tell me how you feel in the comments below.
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Hmm a debate of a simple word. My oh my. I suppose take out of context it could be use vulgarity but real. I think you moist sweet skin is something to behold. So my opinion is like yours on today’s issue.
Not my favorite word as a sexual term… but there is nothing better than a moist slice of carrot cake! XOXO
Completely agree. It’s not one of my go-to erotica terms, but it has a time and place!
Moist – a small word that strikes revulsion in my daughter and hysterics in my partner who enjoys the innuendo especially when it is used in an innocent content (in response to a question as to whether the clothes are dry – they are always ‘damp’ or ‘moist’ both of which carry their own baggage.
I use it this way too!
I can’t think of any words that repulse me and moist certainly does not! Her thighs glistened with the dew from her moist cunt…. I would be at a loss for the lack of another wetness descriptor!
Right?! I totally agree.