> >Hmmmm... > >I don't know about that... > >Whenever I use, or have seen squick used it has a sexual connotation. > > Whenever I've either heard or used the term, it has been related to an > activity that is sexual to at least some people. On the other hand, I'm > having trouble coming up with an actifity that isn't sexual to at least > some people. <snort> > The reason I like the term, however, is that it doesn't, so far > as I know, mean, "that disgusts me." It more means, "I don't care for that." In > other words, it is a way to say, "I have no interest in that activity," > without saying, "ICK. YUCK! YOU MUST BE *SICK*." This is especially > important if the latter is what you're actually thinking. The consusus (though a small sample, n=4) of the Delta-Green list (Modern day Cthulhu RPG FYI) was there is a sexual connotation, with pointing towards alt.sex also. I have to admit that for me, anything that has a scale that reaches 'squicky' goes beyond something of the scale of BDSM (Nothing wrong with that!), scat-play (which is merely, IMHO, gross), paedophillia (just plain sad, even if it is gut-wrenching) and devolves into the pervo-necro-shubby-sex level of squeamishness... You have to get pretty far down in the gutter before *I* consider you a pervert. <g> > I believe Miss Manners would thoroughly approve of the term. LOL! Probably... David