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And, as a chaser to that tearstained blubbering from earlier, I shall do a meme! A WIP meme! I'm supposed to post snippets of WIPs from all fandoms, but I'm limiting myself to House and, more specifically, solo House WIPs, for brevity's sake.

( GHL prompt: House/Wilson -- the hottest day of the year. )

( Honey, Cuddy, and a naughty shop. )

( Cameron, driving. )

( Foreman at Columbia, originally intended as part of a longer fic for the Foreman fest but possibly becoming something independent. )

( GHL prompt: House wants to be forced. )

( The one where Cameron and Cuddy break up and Cameron ends up going back to House’s with Wilson and they ultimately Get It On. )

( Response to that 'House and Wilson go to Pride' challenge someone threw out a while ago. Also nearly done, but I really don’t like it. )

Why is there no acceptable way to refer to a man's testicles?

Testicles itself is too clinical to work for me. Balls, sac, and any variation thereof just sound childish, and nothing kills a mood faster than that. Scrotum kind of makes me cringe, but I've used it once or twice when there was no way around it.

Normally, I go for the elided approach (e.g. "fingers slowly cupping lower" and similar pussyfooting) and hope people get it.

There's never going to be any resolution to the eternal debate over the best way to refer to a penis or a vagina. But at least both of those have lengthy lists of alternatives unfurling behind them. Testicles? Not so much. There are plenty of people who still can't swallow get behind grudgingly accept cock as the most apparently tolerable euphemism for penis. Until rather recently, I couldn't read the word balls without wincing. And I really don't want to be one of those writers who chucks in a hair-raising word halfway through a sex scene and loses half the audience.

Maybe I should write about eunuchs.