Do I have your attention?  :wink:

So. I’m reading a book that happens to be fairly good. I’m enjoying it and all.

I get to the sex scenes (of which there are many) and the author uses the word cock for the manhood. Which is all well and good but I started to wonder what the exact terminology is. And if I use the word cock instead of dick or penis, does that put my book in a different romance subgenere? If I say, for instance, “His cock slid into her ever so slowly,” does that mean I’m writing erotica? I guess if I wrote, “His manhood slid into her ever so slowly” then that would just be romance. Wouldn’t it?

But here’s something that totally bugs me and it has to deal with the female anatomy. The authors uses the words labia and mons. Oh and clit too, which doesn’t bother me at all. The thing that bugs me about labia and mons … is just the words altogether. Why use the word labia anyway? It just seems so sterile. Can’t we just say clit and get it over with? Besides, isn’t that where all the action happens anyway?

So erotica authors and readers - what is your preference when reading hot and steamy sex scenes? Do you want the medical terminology or the hard-core stuff?