Why is vanilla called vanilla?
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Why is vanilla called vanilla some might say it is because vanilla is "standard" without anything else, however vanilla is a unique flavor not "plain"! Explain your best reasoning for why the vanilla tag has its name.
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animefreak_usa
Child of Samael
There's no other opinion than it's sex that involves no twists or kinkiness. Basically plain regular sex. Typically sweet and happy and very lovey-dovey. A cultural regard of standard or conventional sexual practice. Often, it is interpreted as sex which does not involve elements such as, BDSM, kink, or fetish activities. Usually defined as boring, plain sex. But, a vanilla lover would regard it as making-love, passionate sex.
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623
FAKKU QA
Vanilla is called vanilla because it's plain or standard. Ever heard of vanilla World of Warcraft? It's used to refer to WoW before any of the expansions. For some reason though vanilla in the hentaisphere has sort of taken on the meaning of romance and fuzzy feelings which is why there will be vanilla chapters with like, sex toys and stuff.
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Gravity cat
the adequately amused
Vanilla is a widely-used pleasant flavour used in sweets, such as ice creams and cakes. People like the taste, and it's fairly recognisable as a flavour, so there's big demand for it. Likewise, vanilla sex is inoffensive and lovey-dovey, and people eat that shit up. No pun intended.
It's just the easiest comparison to make when it comes to consensual heterosexual sex with a happy ending. It's inoffensive, pleasant, widely-used as a genre, and everyone likes it.
It being a standard and inoffensive flavour, as mentioned previously, is also why the term is used to refer to an unmodified game client. "Vanilla Minecraft" for example, refers to a bog-standard Minecraft game client without resource packs or mods.
It's just the easiest comparison to make when it comes to consensual heterosexual sex with a happy ending. It's inoffensive, pleasant, widely-used as a genre, and everyone likes it.
It being a standard and inoffensive flavour, as mentioned previously, is also why the term is used to refer to an unmodified game client. "Vanilla Minecraft" for example, refers to a bog-standard Minecraft game client without resource packs or mods.
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there is no "plain" ice cream; there is vanilla. However, vanilla ice cream is *good*. It has near universal appeal.
calling something vanilla does not imply that it is bad. Rather, that it will be generally accepted as good.
calling something vanilla does not imply that it is bad. Rather, that it will be generally accepted as good.
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Vanilla isn't exactly a hentai exclusive term, it has become an adjective in recent years meaning "having no special or extra features," which I think describes the tag pretty well. There aren't any kinks or fetishes or anything like that, it's basically sex in the missionary position for the sole purpose of procreation
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As others have said it probably comes from how vanilla ice cream is generally liked and is seen as the "plain" flavored ice cream.
Hence why vanilla sex is the base plain sex that is appealing to the general masses.
But just like how some people dislike vanilla ice cream because it is to "plain" some people dislike vanilla hentai because it is to lain and they all are very similar in structure being very lovey-dovey and fluffy
Hence why vanilla sex is the base plain sex that is appealing to the general masses.
But just like how some people dislike vanilla ice cream because it is to "plain" some people dislike vanilla hentai because it is to lain and they all are very similar in structure being very lovey-dovey and fluffy
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vanilla (n.)
1660s, "pod of the vanilla plant," from Spanish vainilla "vanilla plant," literally "little pod," diminutive of vaina "sheath," from Latin vagina "sheath of an ear of grain, hull of a plant" (see vagina). So called from the shape of the pods. European discovery 1521 by Hernando Cortes' soldiers on reconnaissance in southeastern Mexico. Meaning "flavoring extracted from the vanilla bean" is attested by 1728.
Adjectival meaning "conventional, of ordinary sexual preferences" is by 1970s, probably from the notion of whiteness and the common choice of vanilla ice cream; vanilla as figurative of a plain and conventional choice (without reference to sex) seems to date to the late 19c. as a noun, by 1940s (often plain vanilla) as an adjective.
per Etymology Online
1660s, "pod of the vanilla plant," from Spanish vainilla "vanilla plant," literally "little pod," diminutive of vaina "sheath," from Latin vagina "sheath of an ear of grain, hull of a plant" (see vagina). So called from the shape of the pods. European discovery 1521 by Hernando Cortes' soldiers on reconnaissance in southeastern Mexico. Meaning "flavoring extracted from the vanilla bean" is attested by 1728.
Adjectival meaning "conventional, of ordinary sexual preferences" is by 1970s, probably from the notion of whiteness and the common choice of vanilla ice cream; vanilla as figurative of a plain and conventional choice (without reference to sex) seems to date to the late 19c. as a noun, by 1940s (often plain vanilla) as an adjective.
per Etymology Online
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timelostartist
Hell Hound
Cause I don't think people want to call it basic and vanilla is something I think of as easy to understand like the flavor. Just vanilla everyone knows it and what to expect, maybe it eludes to what one expects and it sorta just stuck
