Article
French
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Abstract
Sexual has a peculiarity that it does not share with any other human activity, that of being able to take over the entire language, to sexualise any word, phrase, even if not appropriate, at the risk of provoking laughter or shame. Not to mention the language that ‘forks’ and takes advantage of a phonetic proximity to make scandal, for example the time of a famous lapsus which transformed inflation into a fellation. The words of sexuality are often sexual words themselves, with their full crudity and possible brutality. Downgrading, for example, is both the designation of a gesture (to reduce it) and a word of act, which in itself carries sexual violence. From the most pastel, ‘blue flower’, to the most critical, ‘FIST fucking’, these 100 words are those of sex life. Defining this vocabulary is less an opportunity to define what everyone knows than to question the meaning (historical, sociological, religious, aesthetic, psychanalytic, etc.) of the facts and gestures of our sexuality.