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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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[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I'd go with bum.

I hate rear. Now rear's an unsexy word, man :P

[predatrix.livejournal.com]

Although there's always that quote in Mansfield Park which always tends to confuse me about how much, if any, innuendo was meant: "Of Rears and Vices I saw enough. Oh, do not be suspecting me of a pun, I entreat!" The character is meant to be worldly, but were ladies in Austen's time likely to be worldly enough to make that joke? Surely not. Which always left me combing the back of my mind for any context in which the remark can be meant otherwise than an allusion to sodomy, and never quite finding one.