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Optimage piv7/6/2023 Phys Fluids T Cambonie 26 10.1063/1.4891850 Cambonie T, Aider JL (2014) Transition scenario of the round jet in crossflow topology at low velocity ratios. J Turbomach G Bidan 135 2 021037 2012 10.1115/1.4006599 Bidan G, Vezier C, Nikitopoulos DE (2012) Study of unforced and modulated film-cooling jets using proper orthogonal decomposition-part I: unforced jets. J Fluid Mech G Bidan 7 10.1017/jfm.2012.482 Bidan G, Nikitopoulos DE (2013) On steady and pulsed low-blowing-ratio transverse jets. J Heat Transf 135(1):011010Įxp Therm Fluid Sci M Ben Chiekh 46 89 2013 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2012.11.024 Ben Chiekh M, Michard M, Guellouz MS, Bera JC (2013) POD analysis of momentumless trailing edge wake using synthetic jet actuation. J Heat Transf S Acharya 135 1 011010 2012 10.1115/1.4007667 Acharya S, Leedom DH (2012) Large eddy simulations of discrete hole film cooling with plenum inflow orientation effects. II-Hairpin vortices generated by fluid injection. I-Hairpin vortices generated by a hemisphere protuberance. Whether you prefer PIVving or VEPping, they are light-hearted neutral terms that lack the baggage of patriarchy and aren’t too soft and romantic or too direct and crude, and they say it like it is – two sets of genitals joining together.J Fluid Mech MS Acarlar 175 10.1017/S0022112087000272 Acarlar MS, Smith CR (1987) A study of hairpin vortices in a laminar boundary layer. Or as a participant in a recent couples retreat said – VEP: vagina enveloping penis. So, I tell women, when you’re ready for some PIV, invite him in and give his penis a good cuddle with your vagina. Making love is good, but sometimes too romantic… (I feel I’m on a one-woman crusade trying to change the language of my profession.) It’s a bit dry for personal use though, so what else do we have? Fucking, shagging, bonking are more casual, sometimes a bit crude depending on the mood. So, what else can we call it? Intercourse is a fairly dry term, but definitely useful in clinical and medical settings, I’d much rather we use that term in those situations, rather than ‘penetrative sex’. Their bodies relax and their faces open up with smiles of delight when they realise how their language has led to an attitude that is counterproductive to the experience they want, and how it can be changed so simply. It sounds much more equal and so much more pleasurable that way. Rather than conceptualising it as something done to them, they realise that it is something they invite when they are ready and that the act is one of them enveloping and holding their partner’s penis with their vagina. I’ve had women with vaginismus (a condition of tight pelvic muscles which prevent the penis, or even fingers or tampons, entering the vagina) recover simply by changing the language they use for sex. When you hear those terms, your body softens and opens, as opposed to the word penetration, which makes the body contract. Don’t the last two terms feel softer, welcoming, and give equal or more agency to the woman. Think of the difference between ‘penetrative sex’ and ‘invitational sex’ or ‘envelopment sex’. Now you might say it’s just a word and it’s not meant in that way. Is this really the concept of intercourse we want to be perpetrating these days – that it’s something done to a woman by a man? Of course not, yet we still use the term. Worse still, the term ‘penetrative sex’ gives agency to the ‘penetrator’ - the man - who does it to a resistant, or at least passive, recipient – the woman. But now, in 2020, do we really want to think of sex as an aggressive act? Which might have applied to sex in the bad old days when a wife was supposed to just submit to her husband whether she wanted to or not, so it may well have been an act of breaking through resistance. Penetration means ‘breaking through resistance’. How do you describe the act of intercourse? Do you call it ‘penetrative sex’? If you do, which wouldn’t be surprising as it’s such a common term, have you ever thought about what the word actually means and symbolises?
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