Question Arising from Recent Fanfic

[moon_custafer]

Do a lot of people, or at least a lot of fanfic writers/readers, consider humming particularly sexy, or something? There seems to be a convention of men humming seductively as they kiss somebody, or gaze into another’s eyes, or just pause in the conversation.

Maybe it’s not literal humming, maybe it means the character is saying “hmm,” or making some inarticulate sound that can’t be accurately conveyed as a grunt or a sigh?

Comments

Humming along

[palain-7.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's not supposed to be an oral humming but a passionate vibration of the whole chest - although, in my experience, that comes out as more of a purr than a hum.

Re: Humming along

[moon_custafer]

A day or so after I posted this, it occurred to me that if I’d mentally substituted “murmured” for “hummed,” I’d have had no problems with any of the examples. Of course I’m now unsure what a murmur sounds like in speech terms, but at least it’s an accepted description.