Arnold Zwicky's Blog

(a note on taboo avoidance and euphemism, but with enough explication of the raw reference of various expressions to make this posting unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest)

A poster wrote:

I am a male corn actor.

— adding that he had worked in adult entertainment before getting into corn. Just enough background information for me to exclude, oh so reluctantly, a wide range of colorful but unlikely understandings of corn, in favor of its just being an intentional replacement for porn to avoid filters on-line. So: a subtler and harder to detect variant of the well-established filter-avoidance pr0n ‘pornography, porn’: an intentional misspelling of porn (with the middle letters transposed, and the letter o replaced by numeral 0). (The thing is, pr0n stands out as odd, so clever filtering could fairly easily pick it out; the beauty of corn is its utter ordinariness.)

(Now, of course, being the person I am, I am seized with carnal, raunchy, grossly sexual readings of corn on the cob, corn chowder, Children of the Corn, cornucopia, corny jokes, cornflakes, cornfields, popcorn, Cornwall, corner store, cornrow, Jimmy Crack Corn, cornet, acorn, …)

And then two other recent adventures in bro-talk / dudespeak on sexual topics, on this blog:

— on 6/4/26, in “to collab”, on the verb to collab ‘to hook up (sexually)’ and noun collab ‘(sexual) hookup’ as recent coinings for sexual vocabulary, with a note on the euphemistic slang to toss somene’s salad ‘to rim someone’

— on 6/8/26, in “I’m a big gooner”, on the sexual verb goon, agent noun gooner, and activity noun gooning (all recently coined), with a range of uses, all having to do with (male) masturbation (jacking off / jerking off / wanking), but with fresh expressions

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