Using the Partridge Dictionary of Slang, a list of terms for the male and female genitals and for coitus was compiled and compared with a list of dream symbols that represent the genitals and coitus. The lists were sorted into categories such as references to shape, the likening of the genital to a tool, etc. The author suggests that slang is forbidden because words are the intermediary between fantasy and fulfilment; hence words are incipient actions. He does not discuss the possibility that putting an idea into words can make it unnecessary to act it out. He asks a question that deserves further elaboration: why should a dreamer deceive himself during sleep with the same symbols which he employs during waking life?