To begin, for those of you who don't know, the word horny stems from
Greek myth. The Minotaur was a creature that was half-man and half-bull, existing without a female counterpart and as a complete
slave to its own passions. This creature had bull-like horns on his
head, hence 'horny'. But that'
s besides the point.
I hate the word horny because it sounds like a joke, and the feeling it is describing is anything but funny. If you think feeling sexual is funny then there is something seriously wrong with you. Horny sounds like a
stupid oaf of a frat boy trying to make himself feel better about the fact that he hasn’t gotten laid in 6 months and that he masturbates 4 times a day as compensation. When you feel ‘horny’ – it’
s really the only word for it – the feeling is not like a joke and does not exist like it does on white people sitcoms and teen movies. It’
s like a surge of sexuality and life and need. Or maybe that’
s just me, or maybe all those people who actively use the word horny are just too
stupid to realize what’
s wrong with it.