Author Topic: The Lost (?) Art of Kennings (Read 6935 times)

Fireof9 · « **Reply #30 on:** September 19, 2013, 08:32:35 pm »

Quote from: catja6;122376

Clearly you haven't been reading enough old-school mainstream het romance novels. Writers would do just about anything to avoid saying clinical terms like "vulva," so you get a lot of blossoming flowers, etc. But my favorite described the hero taking off his pants to show the heroine his "purple-helmeted warrior."

LOL

Step it up a bit further to poorly written erotica and its all over the place. The only creative thing about them is the amount of ways they can describe breasts, a vagina and a penis.

drekfletch · « **Reply #31 on:** September 20, 2013, 12:46:33 am »

Quote from: catja6;122376

But my favorite described the hero taking off his pants to show the heroine his "purple-helmeted warrior."

Makes me think of that scene when James Van Der Beek's character rattles off a list of penis euphemisms. I think it was Dawson's Creek, but it could have been Rules of Attraction.