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On Apr 3, 2009, at 5:32 PM, Calls-a-Spade-a-Spade wrote:


I have a Late Night Gentleman Caller who prefers I not refer to him as such, but is hesitant about any terms to do with dating/seeing/banging. Are there any other palatable descriptive options I could utilize to relay this person’s simultaneously trivial and critical status in my life?

Thanks,
Calls-a-Spade-a-Spade

Calls-a-Spade-a-Spade,

There are, in fact, plenty of palatable alternatives. These are, however, not quite as easy to digest. If “Late Night Gentleman Caller” is an unpleasant term in his mind’s ear, you may then use the following and gradually use them in order of vulgarity:

  1. Backdoor Man
  2. Booty Call
  3. Fuck Buddy

Quite frankly, “Late Night Gentleman Caller” is an exceptional term. At the very least, it implies a certain level of respect you have for this person. You could very easily refer to him as “dude I’m totally banging on the regular”, but you choose to be polite and civil. That’s commendable.

But, at the end of the day, if you aren’t attending social engagements as a couple—dating, as it were—it doesn’t matter how you refer to him. Like Juliet said, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” [Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 45-46)]

Tell him to get over it; you could very easily call him much worse things.

Just my $0.02
Julius Pleasar

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