Jamie Smith

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The second place English profanity comes from is language relating to sex and sexual acts. This includes the acts themselves (fuck, for instance), sex organs involved in those acts (pussy and cock), people who perform those acts (cocksucker and motherfucker), and artifacts and effluvia related to those acts (spooge, dildo, and so on). So the second prong of our profanity principle is sex.
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
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