These stay within us though, they just stay unseen, and become denser by the day, eventually revealing themselves as all tumours must, in addiction, anger, pimples, hives, hair-loss, profanity. So, are we better off with the milder of them, like profanity? Swear words are almost always of a sexual nature and society has always been sheepish about sexWhy is there such an aversion to ‘bad’ words in society? Communication gets a zing with swear words, sentences acquire a vibrancy, an urgency of emotion. Maybe if we achieved some sort of equilibrium in our attitude towards sex and didn’t feel embarrassed about how many times I’ve used the word ‘sex’ in this paragraph, we might also consider the case for profanity.

Source: Hindustan Times April 14, 2018 17:15 UTC