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Having trouble understanding the language of ''Sex and the City''? Not to worry. With our handy A to Z guide, you can master the lingo of the hit HBO show in no time

Sex and the City, Cynthia Nixon, ... | EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT 'SEX' Charlotte (Kristin Davis), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Samantha (Kim Catrall) have lotsa lingo…
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EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT 'SEX' Charlotte (Kristin Davis), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Samantha (Kim Catrall) have lotsa lingo you should know

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A
Anorexia -- the condition Carrie accuses Miranda ''Your breasts are huge!'' Hobbes' newborn, Brady, of having after he refuses to breastfeed

B
Blahniks -- The credit card-busting pumps Carrie wears to worship at the altar of Manolo

C
Convenient Theories For You Monthly -- the magazine that Miranda charges Charlotte with reading after she spouts heart-numbing nuggets of bleakness such as ''You're only allowed two great loves''

D
Dime Store Camille Paglia -- What Miranda calls Samantha after she dishes out truisms on sex (i.e., ''Men give and women receive; it's biological destiny.'')

E
Ecstasy -- the drug that induces a whacked-out Samantha to proclaim to Richard (James Remar) -- mid-climax -- that she loves him; she later regrets saying it... sort of.

F
Fleet Week -- Carrie and the girls' favorite holiday when hunky seamen dock in New York and ''our city is made even fairer by cute, sweet American sailors looking for fun''

G
Gay Straight Man -- A breed of New York men spawned by ''overexposure to fashion, exotic cuisine, musical theater, and antique furniture''

H
''Hope that F---er Doesn't Break My Heart Again'' Diamond -- What Samantha names the paper-weight-worthy gem that Richard gives her to woo her back

I
''I'm not getting laid, therefore I'm getting laid off'' -- The reason a paranoid Carrie thinks her editor, who never calls, phoned her after she gets a bad case of writer's block and winds up writing about French fries instead of sex

J
Jimmy Choo -- Carrie's other shoe god

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