arm:leg =? penis:vagina

[Darla Wells]

In the 80's in Southern California, my mixed bag of friends on the carnival
circuit were always offering "to lick your leg" ie whatever sex act was
being impulsively thought of at the time. Had nothing to do with legs--or
not much. We all used slang from all over the country and picked up whatever
was being said locally as well.
Darla

2011/8/16 Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>

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> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Ronald Butters <ronbutters at aol.com>
> wrote:
> > Larry, I don't understand how this "supports" JL's argument. As I =
> > understand his point, it is in part that it is extremely unlikely that =
> > today anybody would decide to revise their previously masculine sense of
> =
> > COCK to extend it to females as well (except for weird people who are =
> > allegedly motivated by "postmodernism"). I don't disagree with that, but
> =
> > it is irrelevant in that, so far as I know, nobody would support a =
> > contrary position.
> >
>
> FWIW,
>
> "get some _leg_"
>
> absolutely =
>
> "get some pussy"
>
> in BE slang.
>
> OTOH, the comparison of a penis to a baby's arm is, IME, strictly literary.
>
> And also, FWIW, where necessary, I translate
>
> _cock_
>
> into
>
> "dick" / "penis"
>
> in the same way that I translate, e.g.
>
> _yard_
>
> into
>
> "dick" / "penis"
>
> where necessary.
>
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