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Dear Glamour: Say What You Mean

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I read an interesting article in Glamour the other day. This article was by a nice young man named Jake. Jake’s column is called, “Jake: A Man’s Opinion.” As a new reader of Glamour I was instantly relieved that they took the time to ask a man his opinion on something, because when I’m flipping through magazines aimed at women there are two things I want to see: make-up tips and what men have to say. I think that on the whole everyone in my readership can agree that women (Glamour’s assumed audience) in particular never hear enough male opinions.

Anyway, here I am flipping through a “women’s” magazine filled with ads for fashion design by men, perfumes by men, and articles on how to meet men, and I find this piece written by a man titled, “We Need a New Word for Cuddling.” It’s an opinion piece where Jake tries to be funny while he pleads for us to abolish six words from our dating and sexual lexicon: cuddling, chemistry, G-spot, make love, doggy style, and orgasm.

I hope you’re wearing your rain slickers because there’s a storm a-brewin’.

In Jake’s opinion the word “cuddling” is juvenile and you can’t have a serious conversation when you use it. “Say ‘cuddling’ five times out loud and you instantly feel like a five year old.” Okay, fine, you know, I will admit that there’s something about the “dl” sound in cuddling that does make it feel youthful. I will also admit that cuddling, by nature, is something that many of us associate with young things: we cuddle our kids and we cuddle baby animals. Jake thinks we should call cuddling “couch time” or “pillow time.” Because those don’t sound childish at all.

Next up: “Chemistry.”

“I don’t want a science experiment; I want a connection. (But I don’t want to say ‘connection,’ because that’s too New Agey for a first date.) How about ‘vibes’? ‘Dinner went well – we had good vibes.” I could say that with a straight face.”

“Connection” is too “New-Agey” but “vibes” isn’t? In my mind Jake has morphed into a beach bum carrying around a guitar and a bong. Anyway, whatever you want to call it is fine with me. I like vibes, but I think that when Jake says good vibes he’s not talking about my kind of good vibes.

Product photo of the Magic Wand Original on a white background, cord and all.

NEXT!

“G-spot: I feel gross even typing that. But it’s not just something you can ignore. Can we just call it ‘the zone’? As in, ‘You are totally in the zone now.’”

Why does G-spot make him feel gross? Because it’s in a vagina? Because of that study that claimed that female ejaculate was nothing but pee? I mean, blessedly for Jake’s girlfriend he recognizes the G-spot’s importance, but he never explains why it’s gross. Did he have a run-in with a G-spot in the midst of a bacterial infection? Has he seen a horror movie where a woman’s G-spot exploded in a rain of spiders? Does it have to do with pus? I think everything is gross with pus.

But I don’t think any of those things happened. I don’t know what happened. What I do think is that it’s pitiful that a grown-ass man is frightened and disgusted by the very mention of the G-spot. It turns him off! What a shame for Jake, because some of us are turned off by his alternative, which makes me think of football and city planning while my vagina dries right the fuck up.

“Make Love” is up next, and he thinks it sounds like something you’d hear in a Saturday Night Live skit. His alternative? “Melt.” I have no opinion one way or the other on “making love” but I can say with certainty that I don’t want to replace it with the word for what a face does when you look at the Ark of the Covenant. You’re not batting a thousand here with your suggestions, Jake.

GIF of the scene in Indiana Jones and the Ark of the Covenant where a guy's face melts from looking at the Ark.

We’re finally approaching the end of the list. “Doggy style” should be replaced with “wrestling” as far as Jake is concerned. I’m sorry to tell you this, puppy play enthusiasts, but Jake is certain that no one wants to be compared with a dog. “I repeat: no one.” All I have to say about this is that if we took Jake’s suggestion I would actually watch Wrestlemania.

And finally “orgasm” reminds Jake too much of sex-ed class. It’s too clinical, but “cumming” is too pornographic. God forbid we use clinical or pornographic terms to refer to sexual activity.

Jake’s complaints that I have the most issue with are the obviously ones where he says certain words are “gross” or “too clinical”. One person’s discomfort prevents him from using real adult words to say what he means. This is like when we deny children agency over their bodies by calling their genitals things like, “Wee-wee,” and “Coochie,” because we’re too ashamed of words like vagina and penis. It’s ridiculous. Words have meaning. Say what you fucking mean.

Jake ends his article with, “And next time you’re melting with your boyfriend, I hope he’s in the zone.”

What a sweet sentiment. This is for you, Jake:

A navy heart with coral decorative text that reads "Be less of a cockburn"

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12 Comments

  • May 6, 2015 at 7:36 pm

    Any guy that squicked out by G-spot might as well use “that icky spongy area inside your hoo-ha.” At least then his girlfriends will know where his head’s at.

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    • May 11, 2015 at 10:54 am

      I really can’t get over the term “hoo-ha” for genitals. Too funny!

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    • May 11, 2015 at 10:55 am

      Nothing makes me laugh more than the term “hoo-ha” for the vagina. It sounds so ridiculous. And vaguely like a marines thing.

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  • May 8, 2015 at 10:36 am
    Christine Ashworth

    LOL…loved this. Awesome.

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  • June 6, 2015 at 6:47 am
    FieryRed

    Yeesh. That dude icks me out. I think I need to go use a dildo (bet he hates that word too) on my g-spot and have an orgasm to make me feel clean again.

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  • June 24, 2015 at 4:34 am

    Couch time and pillow time also limit cuddling to the couch or the bed, and really, cuddling can and SHOULD be done wherever you are when the impulse strikes. Fuck, cuddle in church if you feel like it, I challenge anyone to come up with a strong argument against that or any other location.

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    • August 30, 2015 at 6:10 am
      Tzipora

      Amen to that! Also, I cracked up that cuddling supposedly sounds juvenile but how much does couch or pillow time sound like “tummy time” for babies? So yeah, no. Just no.

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  • August 30, 2015 at 6:17 am
    Tzipora

    What the? With all that said your blog post literally made me laugh out loud several times and I’m still cracking up about the melting face image/ ark of the covenant thing.
    Also I now have that song “I’ll stop the word and melt with you” stuck in my head. Don’t know who sings it but kind of aussie surfer dudebro accent so between melt and vibes and all, yeah I’m getting a similar image of this guy as you did. And did he have a suggestion to replace orgasm since it seemed he took issue with both it and cumming (I’m not fond of that spelling myself though no issue with the word except in bad porn ie- “I’m gonna come! I’m coming, I’m coming!” Do you want applause? Do you have to verbally announce it? Lol).

    Oh but the gspot exploding in a rain of spiders things has me shuddering and seeing the imagery far too horrifically clear in my head. Props for vivid imagery from a general great writing perspective but yikes! I’m clenching in terror. Then again sounds like the original article caused a similar reaction so…

    And any dude who won’t say orgasm probably isn’t getting too many. Or he shouldn’t be because what???

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    • August 30, 2015 at 11:23 pm

      Nope, no replacement for orgasm, from what I recall. Believe me, I would have torn to shreds whatever he suggested to replace it.

      G-spot exploding in a rain of spiders is a personal fear of mine. Irrational, sure, but very scary.

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      • August 31, 2015 at 12:12 am
        Tzipora

        I have some really freaky nightmares when I’m sick or feverish or hormonal or whatever… That spider thing literally sounds like something I would dream but I sure as hell hops not! I’m okay with spiders like on the wall but if they so much as get on the bed or touch me I hit the roof screaming. But enough about spiders. Lol.

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