Quick Survey

[waterspyder]

How do you feel about the use of the word "chesticles" to describe a woman's breasts?

Comments

[panthertriad.livejournal.com]

it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

While I'll likely taint other people's responses by saying this. Josh came up to me, started fondling my brests and said "Chesticles!" to which I replied "Don't ever call them that again". This poll is in response to his question "Why not?"

[jagash.livejournal.com]

I am completely neutral on that matter. The similarity between paired somewhat-secondary sex characteristics makes the term logical, however it is certainly not part of my vocabulary.

[panthertriad.livejournal.com]

So screen these comments. :P

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Ick. Sounds more like a description of overweight guy-boobies.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

That's what Josh basically said when I asked him if he'd like it if I said he had chesticles.

[thesheryl.livejournal.com]

That's gross. They're breasts; not male testicles on a womans' ribcage. >:(

[xliquid-dreamsx.livejournal.com]

*Points to icon* ... Need I say more?

[conformistsheep.livejournal.com]

i don't like it at all.
partly because i agree with thesheryl and partly because it makes me think of my call center cubicle which i loathe to spend any time in... it makes me think cubic spaces with breasts in them, very bizzarre and not appealing.
i like breasts/chests, they deserve better names than that.

[purplezart.livejournal.com]

testicles are in no concievable way secondary sexual characteristics, so i fail to see what the comparison is you're making that seems logical.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

The paired-semispherical element is the first major point of comparaison. The reason why i called them somewhat-secondary sex characteristics were the fact that while both are linked to reproduction, neither one is directly involved in the physical element of intercourse. They share somewhat that element of functionality aswell as overall form on the most general sense.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

Frozen necrophiliac breast fetish?

[furious-g.livejournal.com]

Eww, don't really care for that term.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Nope, doesn't work for me.

ms_danson's association with icicles, popsicles etc. came to mind for me too. (Although, goven what one does with popsicles, there might be something there?)

But, if the term works for you and the people you use it around, go for it.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

Like scrubbing my brain out with steel wire now that I've heard the term?

[parisbaby-2003.livejournal.com]

I like it more than the term, "funbags", which Biggie G's brother apparently prefers.

No, changed my mind. I hate both names equally, and with vociferous intensity.

[valkyriejack.livejournal.com]

Why say that when breasts or boobs sound better (and are more fun to say)?

[okcismelanie.livejournal.com]

I like boobies myself, but chesticles sounds like something that hangs like testies....

[queenie-writes.livejournal.com]

I really dont see anything wrong with it, considering how stupid boobies, tits and other such words are to describe breasts. There are even stupid names for the penis, like shlong for one.

I think it's not worth being offended over personally. I have better things to be upset about.

[purplezart.livejournal.com]

no.

no no no.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_sexual_characteristic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_sexual_characteristic

[jagash.livejournal.com]

I am fully cogniscent of the biological terminology. I used the word "somewhat" as a qualifyer, stating that neither piece of anatomy is physically involved in the process of intercourse yet both are vital to mamillian reproduction. It's a laymann's viewpoint that i am speaking of and not one of the precise terms.

Either way, it's not of much import.

[purplezart.livejournal.com]

1. how are testes not physically involved in intercourse?

2. if you're going to make the claim that you're not being 'technical' then you shouldn't use 'technical' terms such as "secondary sex characteristic"

3. if what you have to say isn't important, why are you saying it?