In the Meat Pit, "She feels the tip push past her esophagus and slide down the slimy wet confines of her throat..."
Somebody doesn't understand anatomy, eh?
TLDR: The esophagus is downstream from the throat. I think if one can't be bothered to verify the terms with an
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, use colloquialisms, not defined anatomical terms. If you feel the need to use precise anatomical descriptions in your porn writing, many of us love it. It helps paint a more vivid mental picture, but it has to be at least somewhat accurate imo.
The geek part:
The esophagus is the foot-long tube that ends at the stomach and originates at the pharynx in the neck. The pharynx is the passage that connects the nasal sinuses and mouth with the esophagus and trachea. "Throat" refers to the passage through the neck, so always the pharynx, often the trachea (windpipe), and rarely the upper couple inches of the esophagus. Regardless of the definitions of" throat" used, the throat always lies superior (above) the majority of the esophagus, so by the time a dick encounters the esophagus, it's already in or through the throat.
To "push past her esophagus", the tip would literally be in her stomach getting gastric juices on it: digested. The two actions in the sentence are joined with an "and", which doesn't require chronological order, but it
is implied and is certainly the standard in writing action and sex scenes. "And" is understood to mean "then" in this situation. The only way for a dick to "push past her esophagus [then] slide down ... her throat" would be to initiate penetration from the stomach end of these organs and legitimately be over 13 inches, but the scene would have to be one of the game overs.
The obvious answer is the writer likely meant "uvula" instead of "esophagus". Maybe he meant "epiglottis", but then you're talking about some weird trachea-fuck situation, and again by the time a dick encounters the epiglottis, it's already in the throat. Or maybe a quick search for synonyms of "throat" yielded "esophagus"? But that doesn't make sense: you wouldn't write "push past her [throat] and slide down... her throat", right? I'm sure this sentence was written about 6-7 years ago and there's zero hope for it to be fixed, but bah! If anyone reading this is an erotica writer or will be someday, please either write anatomy in the ballpark of correctly or just use crude terms.
The concludes my stream-of-consciousness editorial rant, you will now be returned to your regularly scheduled thread comments.