You are all very dirty minded :: nods :: I will not hear of such... blasphemous things :: covers his ears :: I'm French (well, French Canadian outside of Quebec, so close enough) and didn't even know of the metaphor. Now I know. And also feel quite dirty minded. A good shower and scrubbing to the blood ought to clean me.
Note that the article also states that "the term 'la petite mort' or 'the small death' [...] can also be used when some undesired thing has happened to a person and has affected them so much that 'a part of them dies inside" which is more of what I was going for.
