Comments on: Words

By: cristina

cristina — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:12:47 +0000

OK so you are totally right that words have power. because we give feelings behind them. now i hated the word cunt. but there is reason. when i was 19 i was helping edit my friends paper on pornography and censorship for a women’s study class for university. now not being wordy myself or actually attending university i had to look up the word cunnilingus. (hey i was 19 i knew slang terms for that act) and low and behold cunt was right there in the Webster’s English dictionary. I must read what it says..

cunt- 1. slang term for women’s reproduction system or vagina
2. a woman.

my tender 19 year old heart broke immediately. really only a women cuz i had actually used that term many times against men more so than towards women. and i prolly didn’t utter that word for the next 20 years. i would spell it, use the term C-word but i wouldn’t say it.
then i started reading erotic fiction ( especially yours) and it gave me that word back. it started to get me hot and bothered etc. i began to see what power it had when it was used differently, in a sexy way as opposed to how i seen it as a word of hate.

i got comfortable with it again, i try not to use it in terms of hatred useless it merits it. so i say fuk u Websters for that narrow minded definition it just makes you a bunch of cunts. i am sure they have updated the definition since 1989, lets hope.

so thank you for giving me a word back.
cheers
Cris

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:09:34 +0000

:grin:I love your books. If some people can’t handle certain things in writing then they can just choose not to read that. :wink:

By: Estella

Estella — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:50:44 +0000

Wtg, Lauren!!

By: Mary G

Mary G — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:21:42 +0000

Oh Yeah. Don’t buy “erotica” if you don’t like those words.

By: Mary G

Mary G — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:19:50 +0000

Well said Lauren!! Just keep that great writing style you have. That’s why I buy your books. There’s almost no excuse today for buying a book you don’t like. Most authors have web-sites & offer excerpts galore. You pretty well know the “hotness” level from that and as well at the publishers web-site (like Samhain) that gives you the content on the back cover.

By: Booklover1335

Booklover1335 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:22:22 +0000

I love your books Lauren and thank you for every written word. You labor over them and I savor every single one of them, even if they aren’t words that I would speak out loud, I will speak them in my mind and embrace the power behind them.

p.s. can’t wait for Coming Undone!!!

By: Rossy

Rossy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:05:41 +0000

Well said Lauren!

By: Karen Erickson

Karen Erickson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:03:14 +0000

Thank you! So very very true.

By: Victoria Janssen

Victoria Janssen — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:43:17 +0000

Yes!

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:40:57 +0000

Great blog. It says it in a nutshell