• TeddE@lemmy.world
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      Have you met the French? There’s a bunch of English sex words brought in from French! Most notably is ménage à trois, for a threesome. The smoking a cigarette after sex cliché is pretty French too.

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          My understanding is that ménage à trois says the three are ‘living together’ with the sex being implied via innuendo, whereas plan à trois is more directly about the sex act itself.

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          I have no idea what is correct French, but the first phrase is the one that is used in English, I have never heard the second