it is observed if cultural variation is possible in metaphors that refer to a domain, which is a taboo itself: Sexual Desire. In order to do so, a corpus of conceptual metaphors and metaphoric expressions is collected from three romantic novels by Corín Tellado, one of the most famous Spanish author in this genre. This corpus will allow us to see whether English and Spanish metaphors coincide and if they are used with the same frequency in both languages. Furthermore the structure of each conceptual domain will be taken into account, showing which metaphors are valid for each part of the domain. (43)