Raunch Reviews is a series about profanity. Not real profanity, but speculative swearing. Authors often try to incorporate original, innovative forms of profanity into our own fantastical works as a way to expand the worlds we build. Sometimes we’re successful. Often we’re not. In this series, I examine the faux-profanity from various works of sci-fi and fantasy, judge their effectiveness, and rate them on an unscientific and purely subjective scale. Below you’ll find previous reviews in the order they were reviewed.

The Stormlight Archives
“Storm it/Storms/Storming”

The Bas-Lag Cycle
“Jabber”

Battlestar Galactica
“Frak”

Harry Potter
“Mudblood”

A Song of Ice and Fire
“Seven Hells”

Mork & Mindy/Starsiege: Tribes
“Shazbot”

Dragon Age
“Andreste’s Flaming Knickers”

Malazan Book of the Fallen
“Hood’s [Body Part]”

Battlestar Galactica (1978)
“Felgercarb”
Have a suggestion for Raunch Reviews? It can be any made-up slang word from a book, television show, or movie. You can email me directly with your recommendation or leave a comment below. I’ll need to spend time with the property before I’ll feel confident reviewing it, so give me a little time. I have a lot of books to read.
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