Matt Fargo (34 page)

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No disrespect to the indigenous peoples of Canada or anything, but we English speakers have so many sundry and baroque idioms for “fucking” that it makes Inuits and their multitude of words for snow sound like a Speak & Spell that’s running out of batteries. Likewise Japan has no shortage of idioms for dipping the old California Roll, depending on how obscure and offensive you want to get. So for brevity’s sake what follows will be the “bare bones” of Japanese sexual parlance (and yes, that’s a double entendre).