This is worth repeating now and then.

Paraphrasing Kurt Vonnegut, the treachery and hypocrisy of predators lost its way in the language of reproduction and excretion long before the Victorian era banished  it forever.

Vulgar - that's to say common - expression was condemned, along with opposition to the rotten behaviour it described, and assholes got a free ride.

Cute trick, if you were a king or a cleric. Sorry if you're offended but welcome to the real world of liars, thieves and Selectmen.

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