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 mojo333 rated 11 months ago- Sex has high stakes, including exploitation, disease, illegitimacy, incest, jealousy, spousal abuse, cuckoldry, desertion, feuding, child abuse, and rape. These hazards have been around for a long time and have left their mark on our customs and our emotions. Thoughts about sex are likely to be frau...
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- stumblz7 rated 2 months ago
- Watch your language!
From the page: "When it comes to political speech, we are living in a free-speech utopia. Late-night comedians can say rude things about their nation's leaders that, in previous centuries, would have led to their tongues being cut out or worse. Yet, when it comes to certain words for copulation and excretion, we still allow the might of the government to bear down on what people can say in public."
- Svanhvit rated 11 months ago
- From the page: "The Clean Airwaves Act assumed that fucking is a participial adjective. But this is not correct. With a true adjective like lazy, you can alternate between Drown the lazy cat and Drown the cat which is lazy. But Drown the fucking cat is certainly not interchangeable with Drown the cat which is fucking."
- Mopster rated 5 months ago
- Steve Pinker on the significance of swearing.
- beatlebuddha rated 10 months ago
- A Fucking brilliant article about "the history, psychology, and neurobiology of swearing."
- megatrout rated 7 months ago
- What the fuck? Indeed!
- msiegel rated 8 months ago
- we've got a lot more pressing matters to attend than keeping each other from saying a few silly words and phrases, don't you think?
- kahuey rated 9 months ago
- F****ing brilliant, that's just what I was about to say...
- joycefricken rated 11 months ago
- Well, ain't that the truth!
Before I caved under the pressure and had my name legally changed to "Fricken", my employee badge used to read... Joyce F***en.
Free society, my ass!
- rush2112 rated 10 months ago
- Fantastic.
- LyraBell rated 11 months ago
- Long but worth reading. A well thought out analysis of why we swear and why we care about it.
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