Today's AWAD is:

muliebrity (myoo-lee-EB-ri-tee) noun

Womanly qualities; womanhood; femininity.

[From Latin muliebritas (womanhood), from muliebris (womanly), from mulier (woman).]

Virility is the masculine equivalent of the term.

It's never a good idea to take liberties with a lady's muliebrities, themilum, unless she's in the mood. [But how are you going to know if you don't try? :) ]

I figured our sex talk would be strictly etymological this week. I really did. Honest. But I figured wrong.

You can't talk about virility nowadays without getting anatomical. It's a vertical certainty.

Now, please ladies, don't blush. Everyone's heard about Viagra. They advertise it everywhere. Even your kids know about it. But they don't giggle about it. They just shake their heads in bewilderment. They can't figure out why their parents would want to have sex in the first place. At least with each other.

In our day, it was a man's job to get the lady into the mood, themilum. Now a man has to go to the drugstore to get into the mood. And a lot of ladies are in no hurry for him to get back.