Words for the posterior

[SweatyAussie]

Which is your favourite term for the part of the anatomy that is technically referred to as the buttocks? :moon

Please choose up to 3 options.

[SweatyAussie]

Definitely an arse man here. No other word for it is quite so "in your face". :moon

"Bum" is my number 2 choice, for the sake of variety... and if I want to sound slightly cultured I might say "rear".

[The Bondsman]

I put down "arse", ....BUT was annoyed that you had linked it with "ass"!
At the risk of offending those from USA here, an "ass" is something akin to a donkey, and as they say in the bible, I sure as hell ain't covetin' any neighbour's "ass"!
Animal sex just ain't mah thang!

[SweatyAussie]

I put down "arse", ....BUT was annoyed that you had linked it with "ass"!
At the risk of offending those from USA here, an "ass" is something akin to a donkey, and as they say in the bible, I sure as hell ain't covetin' any neighbour's "ass"!
Animal sex just ain't mah thang!
I fully agree, Bondsman, as you well know. You will never get me referring to my arse as my "ass".
Lumping the two together as one option was a considered decision on my part. From what I know, "ass" and "arse" are more or less equivalent in terms of the degree of social acceptance of the word. "Bum", for example, is just about acceptable as polite usage these days, whereas "arse" is still considered a mild swear word, though it gets printed in the newspapers. I think much the same applies in the US as regards "butt" and "ass". (US readers, please correct me if I am wrong on this point.) Moreover, I am pretty sure that the origin of "ass" is just the corruption of the pronunciation of "arse" - perhaps as a kind of euphemism, a way of making it clear what you are talking about without actually saying the word.

If I had made two distinct options, all the North American members would have voted for "ass", and all the Brits and Australians for "arse". I wanted to avoid that argument. which is a whole topic in itself, and just compare arse/ass with other possibilities.

[The Bondsman]

Don't get us started, ...."bum" has another connitation in America!
As I've said before, .....two countries divided by a common language!

[Twain]

You subjects of the crown couldn't be more right. Great countries divided by a common language--I think that was Churchill's quote. When I get dressed I put on my shorts, then my pants. You do just the opposite. Here in the colonies, ass was thought quite vulgar, and censored on TV, or the telly. No longer. I hadn't even heard the term arse, considered the more acceptable word, until I was in college. Shows you what kind of crowd I hung out with.
I have to complain about using "fucking" just to intensify another word, as "a fucking shame." I think that started here in the US, but it sure has spread. I parked my motorcycle in a spot another guy spotted before me, though I didn't know it. I was a "fuck." Now what was that supposed to mean? I mean, I enjoy the act; who doesn't?
Led by our fearless, inarticulate, stupid leader, George II ("W" or "shrub" to some people) we've dumbed down everything.

[SweatyAussie]

I have to complain about using "fucking" just to intensify another word, as "a fucking shame." I think that started here in the US, but it sure has spread.
I hate to disillusion you, but I would guess that the gratuitous use of the word "fucking" as an adjective is probably nearly as old as the word itself, which I think dates from well before the time of Columbus, let alone Dubya. Certainly epithets like "you fucking idiot" were in common usage when I was in high school in the 1960s.

[Twain]

My dear Aussie bud, you may be right about use of that by now all-purpose word, fucking. I don't recall such use in the 50's, when I was in high school.
This is a tough one, but you seem well read, can you recall any use like that in print that goes back a ways? Owing to censorship, I know that may be impossible, but as a sometimes writer, I just wonder.

[y-fronts]

i always refer to that part of my body as my BOTTOM

[SweatyAussie]

i always refer to that part of my body as my BOTTOM
I have realised that "bottom" should have been another option.

I tend to think of "bottom" as simply being the correct name, rather than a slang term. I've lately discovered however that some guys who enjoy spanking other guys like to refer to "spanking bottoms". It seems to be something to do with the roleplay that many of them adopt, addressing the spankee as if he were a little boy.

[-abagazza-]

Poop Deck, Sorry to drag the tone down lads but i love this expression for the buttocks :) lol, abagazza.

[SweatyAussie]

"Poop deck" would be a popular term among sailors, I imagine.