“Cumming”… What a flaccid word that the majority of us have resigned ourselves to using for such a gloriously riveting event. Perhaps no other word in our language is so disproportionate to the experience it describes.
It’s not like we have other great options either. In the throes of passion, we’re greeted with a whole pool of lousy candidates: “I’m having an orgasm” is a bit literal, only a weird lawyer would shout “I’m ejaculating”, “climax” seems like a movie studio, the DH Lawrence style “to crisis” is a good one, but awkward to gerund, and if you are into being a pig you can “blow your load” or “bust a nut”. Once I even heard someone say she was “finishing”, which sounded like a kid pooping.
The word has been around for about 500 years or so, originating as a verb “come”, as in “to come to off”, later spelled “cum” in the 1970’s when porn needed a good noun to describe the cum we get from coming. How lazy is that? Just spell the verb differently to noun it. But now we’ve settled on c-u-m-m-i-n-g for even the verb, and that Quiet Riot spelling seems to be more in the family of a word like “Nutting”, which makes it even sillier.
You’d think we would have invented a better word for it. As I write this, I can’t seem to come up with anything better, the only ideas I can come up with are “Raging” or “To Splendor Solis”, but geez it’s not my job to figure this out.
Maybe we shouldn’t use a word at all, when we’re at that point just scream out the name of your mother or father. That should bring us much closer to god. Try it out!
