# Your couple's euphemism for The Act **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 15, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316 "2003-05-15T00:38:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/21 "2003-05-15T07:24:02Z")
“Wannawannawanna fuck?” ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/22 "2003-05-15T09:48:43Z")
“Remember what we used to… nevermind…” ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/23 "2003-05-15T10:45:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \* > But **Ferret** , dear! You leave out the best part from that strip series! When the ardent young woman who is placing the classified tells young Milo she’s looking for “snugglebunnies”, he asks for clarification. She pauses and refines her answer. **Sweaty snugglebunnies!** Aha, another fan! That phrase works for more intense sessions I suppose - or any sex in the summer. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/24 "2003-05-15T11:09:34Z")
We don’t have a phrase. We communicate intense desire through raised eyebrows. Really. “Hot Monkey Sex”? It makes me think of; “There’s the Devil to Sex, and no MOnkey Hot.” ---
**Author:** ![Adoptamom\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Adoptamom\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adoptamom_II)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/25 "2003-05-15T11:19:46Z")
Wanna Poke? (from Lonesome Dove) Nap time - preceeded with a warning to kidlets that they must be bleeding profusely before approaching our door or have appendages hanging at unnatural angles. Wanna play tent? I want you - NOW ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/26 "2003-05-15T13:13:22Z")
We call it “Ungawa” sometimes. For a quickie, we say, “let’s tear one off.” Make Flippy Floppy. We also get jiggy. ---
**Author:** ![godzillatemple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@godzillatemple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godzillatemple)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/27 "2003-05-15T13:36:01Z")
“Want to have sex?” OK, so we’re a bit boring… Barry ---
**Author:** ![phraser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@phraser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phraser)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/28 "2003-05-15T13:43:42Z")
“I feel some stormy weather coming on”… (long story behind it, but has to do with rain being a euphemism for masturbation) “I wanna fuck you RIGHT NOW” (nothing if not direct) “You’ve been bad! Go to my room!” ---
**Author:** ![Contrary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@Contrary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrary)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/29 "2003-05-15T13:44:07Z")
Well ours came from hinting around on company email where clearly you don’t want your meaning to be discerned. So I was suggesting we get together that night for the act, and I called it cake. The name caught on for us and now we use it to describe a variety of those sorts of activities – solo would be a snack cake, you can have devil’s food cake, cake with lots of icing, plain cake, cake with ice cream – well I think you get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/30 "2003-05-15T13:47:53Z")
IMR. It stands for intimate marital relations. “Hey, honey! IMR tonight?” If I’m not into it and he is (fairly often) I will let him “be a spoiled brat” which means I will do a little something for him that doesn’t take very long. ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/31 "2003-05-15T13:55:01Z")
I call it “getting busy” and she calls it “get over here and hump me”. ---
**Author:** ![mipiace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@mipiace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mipiace)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/32 "2003-05-15T14:00:47Z")
Well we used to “sleep” together and then it changed to “have sex” I was very happy when we started calling it “making love” …sort of mirrored the changes in our relationship. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/33 "2003-05-15T14:13:49Z")
In the Music Man the Harold Hill and Marcellus are in the livery stable talking about what they are going to do that night. Hill replies to Marcellus that he’s, “not thinking about food.” Then Marcellus has the line, “Gonna line yourself up a little kanoodling, eh?” That’s ours. Kanoodling. In front of others the euphemism is usually “couple time” as opposed to family time. ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/34 "2003-05-15T14:25:33Z")
My wife and I also use “snugglebunnies” though she often shortens it to “snugglin’” and I tend to lengthen it to “snuggle some bunnies” or “SnuggleMcBunnies”(a sort of variation of EggMcMuffins-which,in and of itself,sounds like a euphemism for cunnilingus). ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/35 "2003-05-15T14:47:55Z")
fuck best when whispered in the ear ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/36 "2003-05-15T14:51:33Z")
We sometimes say “lets play”. Personally when I use the phrase “where is the rope”, my wife knows that sex is on the way. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/37 "2003-05-15T15:00:30Z")
I had a friend who wasn’t very into sex. Her boyfriend would say, “Honey, let’s make nookie.” and she’d say, “Babe, I don’t feel like making cookies right now.” Makin’ cookies. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![isthatsowrong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/35a633/32.png) [@isthatsowrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/isthatsowrong)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/38 "2003-05-15T15:16:37Z")
We “make sex”, as in, “I’m gonna make sex on you now.” ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/39 "2003-05-15T15:27:18Z")
Oh, I almost forgot, our polite version said around other people is “quality time.” ---
**Author:** ![cmosdes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cmosdes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmosdes)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316/40 "2003-05-15T15:44:38Z")
Usually sex in our house begins with me saying, pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-couples-euphemism-for-the-act/175316.md?page=3)