A friend just sent me this in an email, and it seemed especially appropriate after the last posting:
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. -Joseph Campbell
What makes you feel alive?
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The weather, often. Really good food. Intimacy. Understanding something I've really struggled to come to understand. Feeling like I look a million dollars. Exercise. A sense of achievement. Family. A really funny joke, or situation. A good cry. Waking up from a really healing sleep. Learning a language. Dancing. Singing. Trusting. Teaching. Letting go. Breathing.
Laughing, crying, orgasming, being in pain and having epiphanies.
Can you really say "orgasming"? Is this the best English has to offer? (I mean, besides 'coming' which is such an overworked little word.) What about in other languages--anything better that we could borrow?
Not that I have an answer for Anonymous, but how do people respond to sex as a verb, as in I love how you sexed me? Meriam Webster only has it as 'to identify the sex of' and 'to increase the sex appeal of (e.g. sex up'). The OED adds a third (slang) definition: 'to have sexual intercourse'. It seems to me like a great orthophemistic alternative to fuck.
come on mami, Australian English created poetry when they created the word 'root/rooting'. Why look any further? :-)
Because I'm looking for a *neutral* verb for sex.
May be a pointless search though, as history shows that any words associated with taboo topics themselves become taboo over time. :(
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