Inventivité et renouvellement lexicaux (littéraire, argotique, etc.) pour une activité intemporelle
Inventiveness and Renewing the (Literary or Slang) Lexicon for an Atemporal Activity

Summary/Abstract: In academic French, there are relatively few verbs or expressions referring to the sex act (honorer une femme is jocular, coïter, copuler didactic). There are, however, a large number in non-conventional French. Some of these are presented in this article, direct transitives (baiser, sauter…), indirect transitives (lui dégager les écoutilles…) and even some intransitives (tirer son coup…), all from a predominantly male point of view. Slang changes: bouillaver, niquer, pécho… and occurs also in literary inventiveness: faire catleya (Proust), jouer le jeu de la bête à trois dos (Jorif), acalifourcher (San-Antonio)… Two humourous songs close this selection: Les ratés de la bagatelle (subtitled la chose) and Les nuits d’une demoiselle, which teem with a multitude of synonymic verbs and expressions. One serious neologism has been proposed by the feminist philosopher Bini Adamczak, circlusion, to avoid the male viewpoint inherent in pénétration.

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