From the annals of kerning

(entirely unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest, even after some judicious fuzzing of body parts in the visual)

Very briefly noted, a spectacularly bad kerning in a Gay Empire e-mail ad (this very morning) for video on demand; background from NOAD:

noun kerning: the spacing between letters or characters in a piece of text to be printed: I am very concerned about the kerning as it just looks awkward.


UCK MY ASS, dude

Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, uckiness is in the mind of the anilinctor (if you prefer the learnèd, Latin-derived term; or, if you use the common sexual slang, the rimmer; or, if you go for crude plain speaking, the ass(hole)-licker or shithole-licker).

In the real world of sex between men, rimming is complex. Often performed because of the pleasure it provides to the guy getting rimmed, as a service to him; but it can also be submissive; or configured as in fact ucky, shameful (sexual gay sin, as above), humiliating, or downright disgusting (humiliation and disgust being, on some occasions, freely chosen and experienced as perverse pleasures).

Meanwhile, veering away from serious matters to sillier things: given my name and (some of) my sexual fantasies, I can’t contemplate anilingus without thinking of Arnold Rimmer, the character in Red Dwarf.

 

 

 

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