Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation

[paul johnson]

Just north of Milwaukee there used to be an exit for "_Fairy Chasm
Road_" that was locally referred to as _Queer Gulch_
On 4/9/2013 8:56 PM, Benjamin Torbert wrote:
> I hear (or read) "sexual climax" in print now and then, but rarely if ever
> hear anyone say it, as in "she climaxed."
>
> There's a Climax, NC, which we thought was hilarious when I was a kid in
> North Carolina.
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> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Geoffrey Steven Nathan <
> geoffnathan at wayne.edu> wrote:
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>> We have close friends, one of whose parents are buried in Climax,
>> Michigan. The name still generates snickers among many folks. FWIW
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>> Geoff
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>>> From: "Brian Hitchcock" <brianhi at SKECHERS.COM>
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>>> For many years I lived near a road called "Climax Road" (presumably
>>> because it ran along the crest of the hill). People kept stealing the
>>> sign (this was in the 1980s.) Then the county renamed the road "9th
>>> Place
>>> West". Nobody stole those signs. (Tangentially... there were morning
>>> glories growing wild along Climax Road; in western Washington they
>>> are not
>>> considered flowers, but are one of the most tenacious of invasive
>>> weeds --
>>> you can't get rid of them!)
>>> But even then, it seemed to me that "climax" was a bit outdated as a
>>> naughty word; it seemed like a cute but passe euphemism. Nowadays it
>>> is
>>> rarely heard, though it is not uncommon to hear talk show hosts and
>>> guests
>>> discussing "orgasm". Does anyone still call it a "climax"?
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