The Soloist

Girls, let's talk seriously. I don't know about you, but I am certainly tired of the violent terms used to describe the sex act; or lovemaking for that matter. No, delete that. There could be absolutely no love intended from the way many men refer to the deed. It's as if their penises are weapons of mass destruction!

And to add insult to injury, many women just can't seem to get enough! They hang on to every word, every syllable and every line at the dances and stage shows. So that no sooner have we tried to forget the violent verb of the moment, another is pulled from the vocabulary arsenal. I am sick of them and want them to stop now. Just in case you have forgotten them, here are a few of blasts from past unpleasant descriptives.

Remember the song with the line, "Soldering a weh de young gal want?" Somewhere between those lines, there was a hidden meaning that the sex act is akin to using hot molten aluminium to stop a human leak. Come on now, people.

And what about 'jamming' ? We don't mean a jam session or the sweet, sticky thing that goes on bread; we are talking about packing 'it' in with all the force one can muster.

Then there was 'slamming' and they even came up with a condom bearing the same name. Tried slamming a door lately? Would you enjoy that? Really!

'Agony' is another word used to describe what some women want or what is prescribed for them by the men who take pleasure in providing it. Real agony is what is felt by a patient dying of cancer and whose body hurts so much, they'd rather die than endure more! Is that what women desire in bed?

Pounding or crushing

'Grinding' is when you reduce something to small particles by pounding or crushing. So, close your eyes for a minute and imagine being so handled during that most intimate of times. Enough said.

As for the popular, 'kill it/murder it', I guess we have become so used to ending one another's lives, we might as well do 'it' to death, too!

Then there is the new craze, 'daggering'. A dagger, dear sister friends, is a short stabbing weapon with a pointed and edged blade! So, just imagine, you are all hot and ready to be transported to worlds unknown, when your man comes at you with a dagger where his penis used to be. Yeikes! Hold this thought the next time you see the dance.

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