#also i think some ppl use 'horizontal tango' so fuck that guy lmao

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I remember back in 2011, I was taking a Comparative Literature class in college and the professor was talking about all the idiomatic expressions and metaphors used to describe sex and how they were all violent, warlike. Nailed, banged, screwed, smashed, destroyed, pounded, broken in, etc. Someone scores, someone loses their virginity. It's a battle to be won or lost. He challenged us to try to think of a metaphor for sex that was nonviolent and egalitarian.

I timidly raised my hand and offered, "A dance?" The professor shut me down pretty quickly, scoffing, "When was the last time you heard anyone use dancing in that context?"

Anyway, Steven Universe came out a couple years later

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