query: a cock and cock story

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
> "cock" = "pussy" speakers ... eschewed "cock" = "penis" [and] used "dick" [Instead]

Exactly so. When I was learning the language of love <har! har!>, I
was utterly unaware that "cock," in the vulgar tongue, had a meaning
other than _pudenda feminina_ anywhere on the face of the earth. Saint
Louis was Southern enough that it was the case that I didn't know a
lot of white kids, but those that I did know used "cock"  and "dick"
in the "normal" sense. I learned just about all that there is to know
from Robert, a white neighbor child who was virtually an 11-year-old,
living, breathing, walking, and talking American version of the Kama
Sutra. (When adults of today talk that hypocritical BS about
"protecting the [non-existent] innocence of our youth," I simply don't
know how to react. My teacher, Robert, and I can hardly have been
unique in the American experience) One August day in 1949, Robert
spent an afternoon filling in the lacunae in my then-current (lack of)
knowledge of sex and introducing me to whole, new vistas and versions
of heterosexual sex that I had theretofore, at the tender age of
twelve, never imagined were even possible. The only sexual vistas that
Robert didn't provide the street term for and describe in living color
were sado-masochism and scatophilia. (Do street terms for these latter
even exist?) It was he who taught me the phrase, "to jack off." Down
home, masturbation was known as "fist-fucking" and in Saint Louis as
"playing with yourself." So, not only did he never once misuse "cock,"
but he also contributed much to my erotic vocabulary.
--
-Wilson
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