• @TeddE@lemmy.world
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      53 days ago

      Have you met the French? There’s a bunch of English sex words brought in from French! Most notably is ménage à trois, for a threesome. The smoking a cigarette after sex cliché is pretty French too.

        • @TeddE@lemmy.world
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          92 days ago

          My understanding is that ménage à trois says the three are ‘living together’ with the sex being implied via innuendo, whereas plan à trois is more directly about the sex act itself.

        • subversive_dev
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          63 days ago

          I have no idea what is correct French, but the first phrase is the one that is used in English, I have never heard the second