Should the word "crotch" be used when describing an impending love scene?

Crotch isn't really derogatory....it actually has more of an impersonal slang tone to it. We use "crotch" to describe the junction of two limbs....like the crotch of a tree.

Your author might correctly be using the term as a way of conveying the personality of the speaker. It may be acceptable if the speaker is down-to-earth, lacking grace and elegance.

I've never been able to do anything with the word "crotch" It's an awkward word, all sharp around the edges and usually ends by spraying someone with some of the laminton you just ate if you say it loud enough.

Not that I wake in the night in a cold sweat worrying about the valuable real estate it's taking up in the Funk & Wagnel or anything.

It's just that it doesn't got the zing needed when you want to shout out a heart-felt compliment like

"Oh, nice CROTCH sister"

when the flying nun goes into hover mode at the conclusion of her rivetting low-level aerobatic display at the annual combined military and catholic air show in our town.

I mean, it's just not exactly what you actually meant to say.....izzit?

It's not only that.......all the best words have already been taken by other far less interesting, much less deserving stuff.

Consider some replacements for crotch:

*Turbotorquer

*Nirvana

*Sasquatch

*Snicker

*Chardonay

*A small cute & furry cat (oh, wait)

*Gobbledegooker

*Twaddleticker.

*Area 69

*Interrelational procreative docking structure.

Hmmmm.......Maybe we should just invent a whole shiny new word and bury the grissly old C word at midnight........in Germane Grears garden.

SHE'S got one.

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Another Word For Impending

The word "crotch" doesn't have a particularly romantic or erotic tone to it. It's a fairly generalised anatomical reference, for which there aren't many exact synonyms - the closest is probably "groin", but that's no more poetic and seems to have mostly sporting-injury-type connotations. The exact context of the comment would be helpful, but the most frequent euphemism found in modern romance literature is "her femininity" - a bit bizarre!!!

Here's an amusing (but serious) link, which agrees with you, to get you started...

http://everything2.com/?node=crotch

And here's an incredibly exhaustive list of synonyms, euphemisms and nicknames for female genitalia (some of them made me laugh out loud!):

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikisaurus:vagina/mo...

crotch is a for real word. If figure if I can say it in front of my mom with out laughing because it makes her embarrassed then your good. Crotch just seems like one of those words

I don't know. I mean, I've read plenty of non-human romance novels, and some of them do use "crotch." I don't find it in the least bit derogatory. Usually, it makes sense to use it.

well DOCTOR , can you give it another word that cannot be defined as Vulgar , when you use "it" in context to decribing that area to the un-"TAINTED" mind of a Minor?..?

EG: he/she was hit in the Crotch by the bat.....

he/she was hit in the (your `new` word) by the bat.....

he/she had an infectious rash on his/her Crotch

he/she had an infectious rash on his/her (your new word)

his/her fingers found their way down to her/his Crotch

his/her fingers found their way down to her/his

(your new word)...........obviously , you don`t have Kids!

there is a "CROTCH" in panties/briefs/knickers/undies/jocks and that is the area they `fit` on the Human Anatomy....where IS your problem with..... reading the.....(verb) WORD?

Crotch is better than using the "C", "P" , "T" or `cookies` words , don`t you THINK?

"Chuck Norris kicked me in the crotch" sounds a lot better than "Oh baby, I want your crotch"

I don't necessarily think there is anything wrong with the word, BUT I definitely don't think there is anything sexy about the word and that the author could have done better.

no. crotch is such a funny word (laughing at it now), it wouldnt go with a love making scene