What types of innuendos do you encounter on a daily basis? For example Sexual innuendos Do they actually soften the idea rather then the act and so makes it acceptable to talk sex in a wider context without feeling awkward or bad about it? In other words do you think innuendos make conversations of any type more socially acceptable?
I put sexual innuendo into one of two camps. It's either awkward, or just plain lame. Neither are very likely to promote a meaningful conversation. Personally, I don't need any pretense to talk openly about sex, or any subject for that matter.
I find the only innuendoes I use or see the most are those done for comedic effect. Using innuendoes on any serious topic however usually, in my experience, lead to confusion, misunderstanding or just ambiguity
I agree about humor, it's great for fun. I also use it in writing as a vehicle for demonstrating sexual tension, fear of intimacy, misdirection. It's demonstrative of human nature, making light of something serious.
They're a useful tool in the chest of conversation skills. Why take it out? Finding a good one's hard but there's enjoyment to be taken by slipping one in occasionally—so long as you don't do it at length.
Guns N' Roses was playing with masculine and feminine. Velvet Revolver took a similar root. Nine Inch Nails was a penis metaphor so was I believe The Sex Pistols
Sexual innuendo just seems so cheap to me. If I like a woman's smile, or her ass for that matter, I'll simply tell her. And perhaps goose her behind.
... Whatever pays, wants me. I.. Once wrote in house for Gospel when I left college. This was urban too, so it was like rapping morality and they wanted a song about alcoholism. It was a youth project designed to keep kids off the streets, but they wanted gospel and a morality track. I wrote a verse, it was a group effort. I write whatever genre comes to mind, be it rock or rap or pop or blues, I've been writing for a while now, but your question reminded me of my first gig in writing.
I have a band called Lesbian With A Gun, because I was the only guy in my Ebony Lesbian crew who were like family to me in Soho and I used to call myself a Lesbian With A Penis but thought Lesbian With A Gun was a better band name. This band was a lot more me. I also had the means and address in Soho to base it around the corner from where Jimi Hendrix recorded Purple Haze however, I found out about Purple Haze being recorded close by after I based myself there. ... That was cool.
Also reminds me of this song lmao, penis metaphor if I've ever heard one; Janie's Got A Gun by Aerosmith.
Okay, the jury's still out on Janie's Got A Gun by Aerosmith for penis metaphore, but, Rocket Queen by Guns N' Roses is a great innuendo; written by guitarist Slash;