Thursday, May 27, 2004

Pubic Inquiry

It’s been a quiet few days at the ‘hut, so I was surprised to get an email from “Chris” who had some cogent and relevant things to say about one of my recent posts, and then asked me as follows:

“I am doing an honors project, so I am compiling a lexicon of sexual terms, http://www.encyclopedia-of-sex.com. For this project to work I need to get people to submit the oddest words they know. I also need some help promoting this project and I was wondering if you’d be interesting in doing a link exchange. Any help you could lend would be greatly appreciated. Here’s my link Encyclopedia of Sex. Thanks again.” Just to make sure this wasn’t automated spam I wrote him back, asking “what kind of honors project is this?” He responded promptly: “Im an extension student at UCLA, and my project is an english/sociology thing. I want to get words into this lexicon as well as some info on the people who enter the words, things like geographical location, age, and sex. That way I can do statistics (that part is how I got the project accepted).”

Well Okay Chris, here’s your shot: I’m opening the Chucklehut Floodgates (or trickleweirs) and inviting all my readers - both of you - to send Chris weird sex terms.  I didn’t have any myself, as most of my best stuff is made up.  He seems to have a decent start already, but I’m sure one of you will come up with something really groundbreaking. 

I can’t help but remember that my college sociology project was an analysis of the community of 20 art galleries in a four-block area of philadelphia.  The only dirty word I got to use was “commission.” And even then, it needs the proper context to be even moderately juicy.  Obviously, I wasted my education.  But at least it returned the favor.