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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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[erastes.livejournal.com]

*pounces*

I love lurkers. May I friend you?

I shall look forward to reading your story, any stories that aren't written in the contemporary era are of a lot of interest to me, as you probably know!

I rather like rear, myself. I will pluck up the courage to ask Dad, I think, but I might go with rear. My "hero" has spoken about backside a few times, but that was before he got the boy's clothes off - i think it needs something more than backside when its naked. The trouble with him is that - like your chap - he doesn't have the vocabulary. He is only just admitting to himself that he's "Queer", even though he's married with 2 kids....

Thanks for commenting, as I say, so lovely when people delurk.. *goes to check your site*

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[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Your character from 1962 may be having trouble coming up with the right word in his own mind, too.
There wasn't any distribution of books or knowledge about any of this stuff at the time, you couldn't go look things up, you were taking risks just trying to find anything out.
Part of the problem with being closeted is that there aren't any concepts or structures or words except hostile ones from the outside world, which you find you are rejecting wholesale, and that leaves you with...what?
They may invent new words and plays on words for things, which may sounds silly to anybody else.
"Flower!" as Bambi says.