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[deird_lj]

[Poll #1607753]



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[glorious-pancake-morning.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

I've always hated the word "panties". It sounds far too cutesy and psuedo-sexy, and in my head, it suggests too-young girls in sexual contexts, and makes me very uncomfortable.
I mean, older women don't wear "panties".
If they do, they're trying to be younger than they are.
"Panties" used in erotic fiction sounds cheap and grates.

< /taking it too seriously >

[deird1]

Agreed. (And, annoying, were I to write erotic fiction, it would probably involve American women - and therefore use the word "panties". *sighs*)

They're either "knickers" or "undies".

[snickelish.livejournal.com]

I don't like the word either, and I am an American women. I just call them underwear unless I absolutely must differentiate between them and bras.

[jl-in-the-lane.livejournal.com]

Actually, the first time I really came across the word was reading thye scripts from the tv series of Monty Python's Flying Circus, where it got used frequently.