Who is Camille Aumont Carnel?
Be careful, harsh words in sight. It is because Camille Aumont Carnel, “cantor of positive sexuality” according to Le Figaro“feminist sex influencer” for Release, visiting Montreal this week for the launch of his book, is not close to a squirt, cock or ass. The founder of the Instagram account @jemenbatsleclito, with nearly 1 million subscribers on her various social networks, cited among the 30 most influential personalities under 30 in France according to the magazine Forbes (2022), has been uninhibiting female sexuality for several years now. Basically, the twenty-something author, influencer and entrepreneur started writing short, meaningful sentences about female sexuality (toys, smells, orgasms, noises) “so that people recognize each other and for a laugh,” sums up -she. “But despite myself, it became educational. Despite myself, I realized that the youngest used this account to understand. » After publishing a book for teenagers last year (#Adosexoat Albin Michel), here it is again with this particular dictionary, also Joyful manifesto of sexualities.
A desire to make people think
If some still see her as “the girl from Instagram who makes punches”, this publication at the invitation of Robert (in a brand new collection Saying is doing) offers him a more “institutional” platform. “We don’t question Robert,” she knows. Camille Aumont Carnel is also on a mission: “I have this desire to make people think, question this or that expression […], highlight how problematic they are, and propose new ones that don’t insult anyone. » The periods, the foreplay, the impotence, she quotes in the book, co-written with the sociolinguist Noémie Larignier, had you already thought about all the sexist clichés and other expected and implied behaviors involved? “We point to the so-called power of an individual, linked to his erection! We don’t even realize it anymore and we use it every day! » The range of expressions to describe the female gender also says a lot. ” A hole ? Pardon ? No. […] This is a complete misunderstanding of anatomy. » Besides, she adds, “where are the adjectives of size (to speak of the female sex)? » Hence the idea of proposing new expressions, with a view to “changing mentalities”, one little word at a time, she says. No, we do not “get” raped (the expression, grammatically correct, in fact implies a form of responsibility), but we “are” raped. From “irregular” (because there is nothing more irregular than periods), to the “G zone” (this is far from being a point), including “orgasmic aphonia” ( this joyful moment without a voice) or, why not (forgive the English, we are speaking with a French woman, after all!), the “big clit energy” (feminine counterpart of big dick energy), he has no shortage of inspired ideas.
The particularity of the French language
She was 6 years old when she was taught that “the masculine prevails over the feminine”, protests our verbomotor author, denouncing this “institutionalized sexism” and all that “this generates in terms of schema and authorization of action”. A very French “non-inclusiveness”, it should be noted: English, neutral by default, is de facto more inclusive, while Spanish has a much “denser” register, with swear words and colloquialisms. joyfully diverse. “Hence my desire to tackle the French language in a more egalitarian relationship,” she says. For “nothing to worry about” for example, Camille Aumont Carnel suggests substituting “nothing to worry about”. Vulgar, you say? “I don’t think it’s vulgar to not give a damn. It’s a level of language. […]. But even if it is vulgar, we too must have a place in this vulgarity. » Why, exactly? “Because vulgarity is one of the first spaces of anger, and I refuse that it is only a masculine form,” says the author. Otherwise: do we have to be gentle? Uh no ! »
A revolutionary proposal
She makes no secret of it: to put an end to this “classic 5,000-year-old dynamic of power and domination”, the author and feminist proposes a sort of “linguistic sexual revolution”. Exit: losing your virginity, being vaginal or clitoral, a good blow or even fucking like a God. Finally, put an end to this dictatorship of performance, among other things. “You have the right to allow yourself to invent words,” she sums up. Better: “you have the right to allow yourself to do whatever comes to mind: go out without a bra, wear white when you have your period, sleep on the first night, consider a non-exclusive couple. […] This is a book that tells you: your sexuality says nothing about you…” As long as the words used to talk about it are inclusive and above all non-discriminatory…
The words of Q – Joyful manifesto of sexualities
Saying is doing, Le Robert
393 pages