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Originally posted by Aries23Degrees:
Its only "gross" if there are hangups with sex. Otherwise people always speak and think of sex or in sexual ways.I could talk about loving sausages,hotdogs or banannas and get an awkward eye. Speak about my desire to have a warm apple pie to dig into. Or lick an icecream in public and get weird looks.
Society has become increasingly defensive about sexually but paradoxically obsessive. Everyone is so guarded on one end and then very liberal or "dirty minded" on the other.
Just the other day I was telling students that when you make a speech, it has to leave an impression i.e "I have to feel you inside me". And some of them burst out lauhing.
It only dawned on me later what they picked up from that. After all their generation has NOTHING hidden from them; they watch porn from their i-phones. So they pick up on sexual double entendres. Even if unintentionally made.
I would say aspects of Mercury-Mars can do this. Mars is a very "one track mind" planet. So Mars in Gemini, Mars in 3rd,Aries in 3rd,Mercury in Aries and Mercury in 1st.
These people can pick up on sexual connotations or themselves make those statements. Sex(Aries/Mars) on the mind(Mercury/Gemini)
^ I agree with that. It is true. Our society is inundated with these things. On top of that, impressionable people have difficulty differentiating between porn and real life at times, and associate things with porn or something sexual, when it is not (in that context).
However there is something to be said about people who actually DO use double entendres or sexually loaded words or phrases for shock effect (and can deny it if you call them out on their speech when inappropriate).
And there are also people who can act lecherous and sexually predatory, which can come off as gross to some. For example, an older man making iffy comments about a teen is quite revolting.