Condoms and Sexual Vocabulary in Chinese

ChinesePod just did a lesson on condoms. It was an amusing dialogue. (You can listen to just the dialogue on the online player by clicking on “DIAL” and then the play button.)

Then in the comments someone posted a link to the largest collection of sexual vocabulary and slang in Chinese (and English and Swedish) that I’ve ever seen. Impressive. It’s called 牛X语言, and yes, you might find it obscene, so click at your own risk.

18 Comments to “Condoms and Sexual Vocabulary in Chinese

  1. Duncan says:

    It seems like the guy who runs xingfu.se turned off everything on the site.

  2. Jay says:

    Thanks! This is going to come in really handy in my profession.

  3. coljac says:

    Wow. The only problem is given the taboos in China there’s no guarantee a Chinese speaker knows some of the words on this list, either.

    And as a bonus I just learned how to talk dirty to Swedes as well.

  4. Gustaf says:

    Duncan: It seems to work fine for me.

    I have to say that the mandarin textbooks I have cover more daring topics than I’ve seen studying other languages. But there are some situations that they still don’t dare take up and this is a great resource for such situations.

  5. ChinoChano says:

    And we can learn dirty Swedish for the same price! Thanks John.

  6. ash says:

    My interest in studying Mandarin has suddenly been rekindled.

    Thank you, Pasden!

  7. ash says:

    颜射 yánshè = bukkake / bukkake

    Is that right? should it not be 眼射?

  8. ash says:

    Pasden, I cant edit my comments, but good old Wiki doesnt let me down with the Yan She:

    zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/颜射

  9. 88 says:

    Off topic here, but I’ve been meaning to ask for a while. You know your 6.7, 6.8, 6.9….counter at the top of your blog by your head? Two questions: 1) is that automated? 2) when will it hit 7.0? Because ever since that Y2K thing I can’t bear these countdowns. I come here everyday just to see that freaking thing turn to 7.0. I feel like you are Hong Kong about to be returned to China.

    All of a sudden I feel like this wasn’t off topic.

  10. kastner says:

    wow, 牛X语言 rocks ! never seen such a complete vocabulary. :P

  11. Cooper says:

    That’s 2 posts about condoms in as little as a week, Pasden.

    If I didn’t know any better, I’d say there’s something fishy going on here.

    In fact, I don’t know any better.

    There’s something fishy going on here.

  12. John says:

    88,

    Yeah, it’s a PHP script. I do it partly because I have trouble remembering myself. I think the starting date is August 20, 2000, so it’ll hit 7 whenever the figure rounds up to 7.0…

  13. John says:

    Cooper,

    I suddenly realized I was behind on my condom post quota. Sorry for the week of excessive fishiness.

  14. pmw says:

    ash,

    Yan She is actually from Japan, not surprising given how big the AV industry is there. From my recollection Yan is used a lot for face in the japanese language.

  15. Viktor says:

    Hmmm, could this be made into a Sinosplice vocabulary list? Especially since the link doesn’t work anymore. Essential vocabulary no doubt (and I’m not thinking about dirty slang, but lovers’ talk etc). Nowhere to be found on the web at the moment as far as I can tell…

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