I can't easily substantiate this idea, but I feel like it's safe to say there are more euphemisms for sex than for any other word in the English language. Many of them are cheap puns that help to take the edge of the mysterious vulnerability that happens in the throws of animated sex. The more carried away with arousal and affection a person becomes, the more irrationally transcendent everything seems. All while a person is sweating, breathing like a galloping horse, and swiveling their hips to some erratic and primal rhythm. It is definitely not a thing that someone "gets," like finding a twenty-dollar bill in between the sofa cushions.
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