Outbursts!. A.D. Peterkin

      This list includes synonyms as well as examples of substances thought to enhance sexual response and performance, including foods and roots.

      absinthe, Amyl, aroma, aroma of man, asparagus, back up pills, bear gall-bladder, bird's nest soup, Butyl, caviar, celery, cinnamon, charm, cocaine, delay cream, disc cleaner, E (Ecstasy), Ex (Ecstasy), fennel, GHB, ginseng, horn herbs, horn pill, Levitra, licorice, love dust, Love Potion No. 9, love potions, MDMA (Ecstasy), mandrake, mango, medina, oysters, poke, poppers, prolonger, quince, relics, rhino horn, sarsaparilla, sexual aids, snappers, Spanish Fly, Special K (Ketamine, a veterinary tranquillizer), Viagra, X (Ecstasy), yohimbine

      Spanish Fly: made from the wings of the Cantharis Vesicatoria beetle. When ingested, it irritates the urethra so people have sex to relieve the severe genital itching.

      Aroma, aroma of man, Butyl, disc cleaner, poppers, and snappers: all are synonyms for Amyl Nitrate.

      Mango: consumption of this fruit is said to improve the taste of one’s pussy.

      Aroused (Male/Female)

       see also Lust, Promiscuous, Wet

      Not surprisingly, many terms for sexual excitement refer to heat, fever, sweat.

      accensus libidine, affy, amative, appetent, bar-on, begging for it, being a mongrel, being mustard, bent up, bitch-in-heat, blob on, boy crazy, blotty, brimming, bringing on, bulling, cagey, chucking a spread, chucked, cock happy, cockish, cocksmitten, concupiscent, cracking a fat, creamy, cunt-itch, cunt struck, DSB, donkified, dripping, dripping for it, dripping pre-cum, engorged, expanding, exploding, fat, feeling fuzzy, feeling gay, feeling hairy, feeling the power of the pussy, fired up, fizzling at the bunghole, flavourful, foaming at the gash, fresh, frisky, fruity, fuckish, fuckstrated, full hard, full of fuck, full of gism, full on, fussed up, gagging for it, gamy/gamey, getting the hots for, getting juiced up, girl-crazy, girl-hungry, girl-mad, go letching after, goatish, hairy, hard up, having blueballs, having a bone-on, having a hard-on, having a pash for, having hot nuts, having hot rocks, having an itch, having an itch in the belly, having itchy feet, having itchy pants, having lover's balls, having peas in the pot, having the hots for, hawking your meat, hawking your mutton, honked, horizontally accessible, horn mad, horning, horny, horny as a rhino, hot, hot and bothered, hot as a firecracker, hot back(ed), hot for, hot in the biscuit, hot stuff, hot to trot, hot-assed, hot-blooded, hotpants, hungry, hunky, in a lather, in heat, in lust, in season, in the heat, in the mood, insatiable, intemperant, invading, jiggy, juicy, jungle fever, keen, lathered up, lecherous, leching, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, liquorous, lovey-dovey, lubricious, lust proud, lusty, magnificently stiff, man-hungry, manish, maris appentens, mashed, menacing, mettled, mushy, NDL, norwich, now hard, obviously aching, on for your greens, on heat, on the con, on the make, on the prowl, on the pull, oncoming, oozing, pulsating, prickstruck, primed, proud, pruny, prurient, purse proud, raging hard-on, raising one, raking, rammish, rammy, ramstudious, randy, randy as a bitch in heat, randy as a drover's dog, randy as a mallee bull, randy as a three-legged grasshopper, randy-assed, ranting, raunchy, ready to rut, red combed, reddening, rehardened, rising boner, roaring hard, rock-hard ready, rollicky, rooty, ruttish, rutty, salty, semi-flaccid, sexed up, smegma-leaking, softening, sperm-spewing, steamed up, straining, still hard, stomach thumping, suffering from lackanookie, suffering from night starvation, sweaty, switched on, syrupy, throbbing, ticklish, tingling, titty hardon (to have a), touchable, tumbling ripe, turned on, turning her on, twitching, venereal, wanton, weak in the knees, wet for, wide-on, willing, wired up, with it in your hand, worked up, yummy in the tummy

      Blue balls: refers to the painful testicular congestion of blood in a man who is aroused but does not ejaculate. Synonymous with sexual frustration.

      DSB: suffering from “deadly sperm build-up.”

      Horny: derives from horn, suggesting the erect penis but now used to describe libidinous women as well as men.

      Hot as a firecracker: a Canadian phrase first used in the 1920s.

      Lecherous: from lecher, the French word for lick.

      NDL: “nipples don’t lie.”

      Randy: late 19th-century British; from ran-den, which meant carousing or partying.

      Aroused (to Throb)

       see also Erection

      Bob, jerk, pound, pulsate, pulse, stroke, thud, thump, vibrate

      Aroused (to Tremble)

      convulse, flap, flicker, flutter, jerk, quake, quiver, shake, shimmer, shiver, shudder, stagger, swag, totter, tremor, twitter, vibrate, wobble

      Quiver: from the Old English term quiveren.

      Aroused (Female)

       See also Vaginal Secretions

      Wet and its adjectives commonly refer to vaginal lubrication and desire.

      Beady, buttered-up, creamy, cummy, damp, dewy, drenched, dribbling, dripping, exuding, fluffy, foamy, frothy, glistening, glistening wet, gloppy, gooey, greasy, juicy, lathered, leaking, lubed, lubricated, luscious, lustrous, milky, moist, moistened, oily, oozing, oozy, ready, secreting, seeping, sleek, slick, slimy, slippery, smeared, soaked, soaking, soapy, sodden, sopping, spilling, sweaty, tomcat, trickling, wet

      Asshole: see Anus

      Attractive (Female) (Adjectives)

      Photo: Dianne Whelan

       see also Handsome (Male)

      In the 1970s, the influence of second-wave feminism in the lesbian community meant that gay women were thinking critically about the objectification of women, and consequently, were careful not to objectify one another. More recently, third-wave feminism and queer theory, both highly focussed on the linguistic power of “taking back” words, have become more influential, and many lesbian-specific and reappropriated terms are coming into use.

      Against the law, all that, alluring, approachable, attractive, awesome, babelicious, beautiful, beddable, bedroom eyes (has), bedworthy, best-built, bitcher, bitchin’, bitching, blazing, bodacious, boobalicious, built, built for comfort, busty, buxom, choice, cute, curvy, dishy, doable, doe-like, doll, dreamy, drooly, easy on the eyes, enticing, Eve-like, eye candy, fetching, fine, finie, fit, fly, foxy, fuckable, georgeous, ginchy, glam, gnarly, handsome, has bedroom eyes, has pulling power, has sex appeal, haveable, heartbreakin’, hot, hotcha, hugsome, hunky, looks like a million bucks, mobile, neat, Nice Lady, oochie, oomphy, oughta be a law, pretty, punchable, purty, radiant, red hot, right on time, rompworthy, sexational, sexy, shaggable, sizzlin’, smashing, smokin’, snappy, snazzy, stacked, stacks up nice, statuesque, stunning, such a mona, sweet,table grade, tasty, tight, to-die-for, twisty

      Stacked: the recent theorizing of femme as an independent gender expression has lead to a resurgence of many pulpy adjectives, i.e.: glam, foxy, lovely.

      Buxom: fat activists like Nomy Lamm and Beth Ditto challenge the sizist leanings of the queer community by presenting sexually confident personas and choosing to celebrate their curves when they describe themselves. Also: buxom, curvy, busty.

      VGL: very good looking

      Balls: see Testicles

      Bear

      Developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, bear culture composed of hirsute (both body and face) gay men, ususally physically larger than average.

      arb,