I just heard a bit of trivia related to something English speakers say in a sexual context. I looked up a bit regarding "to come" when it talks about ejaculation from the penis. I didn't pull up easily information where it comes from that sufficiently explains its origins. All the explanations don't really draw any connections to actual life. I offer the trivia and how it relates to this.
So, consider butter churning and the action required to get fat coalesce out of cream. Lots of agitation where you are able to notice when the butter is building up. This was known as making the butter "come" and there's a fun (when read with today's meaning) nursery rhyme from the 17th century urging the butter to come.
That's not all. How it became to be sexual has to do with the time of its first attributed usage. Milk maids were the playboy bunnies of their day owing to the fact that their professor came to represent the feminine worker who also like to have a good time. Point is, they were sexualized. Imagine a young man in 1650 needing a word for the thing he just discovered. There he has in mind, a milkmaid, focusing with great effort to get the butter to come.
Anybody who knows words have any thoughts on this?
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