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[erastes]

Help! Ask your Dad?

Or - if you are old enough, give an opinion. Hell, give an opinion anyway.

My character is contemplating the delights of getting his grubby little mitts on his new lover's body. They haven't undressed yet but what would he refer to his arse as?

Bearing in mind that Edward is 35, and it's 1962 (e.g he was born in 1927). I don't think he'd use arse. I am sure he'd say bum, backside or bottom? Or something else. None of which are particularly sexy.

I need to read gay books of the era, if I can find any, I guess.

I REALLY don't want to ask my own dad. He says backside in public, but i have no clue what he thinks in his own head.

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[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

Bum, darling.

I once saw a dramatisation about the Cambridge four spies, which had the expression - "If he wants bum, let him have it."

See also George Melly's 50's version of "Rum, sodomy and the lash" vis a vis the English navy - "Rum, bum and concertina."

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes - and there was a play about Kenneth Williams and Joe Orton recently and he said Bum too...

I might go that way. Thanks!