Body language
alan (fieldmouse) says: i have recently found the german word for nipples is equivalently "breast-wart".
alan (fieldmouse) says: says a lot about germans
Any Germans out there are welcome to verify.
I'd like to spearhead a campaign to expunge the stigmatic approach society has towards your crotch.
Incidentally, for a species that can come up with words like "coruscate", "mellifluous", "diaphanous" and "chimera", naming our sexual organs with clunky and chewy words like "penis" and "vagina" must, quite frankly, be some kind of joke.
And "crotch"? "Groin"? How do they expect us to overcome taboo with words that sound like that? There are few words more inherently ugly than "groin", I must say.
Oh, the taboo of genitalia. Taboo should be liquor, so I could drink it and throw it all back up and see it float around in the toilet, before flushing it gleefully away into oblivion.
But moreover! Not only is genitalia perverted into obsceneties ("dickhead", as the least vulgar example I can think of), but - observe the way it is bastardized into asininity by parents who can't bring themselves to teach their children what their sexual organs are called. Forget delinquency, crime, murder, Enron-scaled fraud: just utter "penis" in some households, and the horror shall manifest!
If you don't regard "peepee" or "tookus" or "cooch" as verbal products of penile and vaginal bastardization, then may any/all gods have mercy on you and your terrorized genitals.
All the same, taboo aside and down the toilet, I can't quite believe I'm asking this, but if you were a parent, what would you teach your child to call their (I hate this one) AREA?
I wonder if the words are ugly because of taboo, or whether the taboo is compounded by the ugliness.
And the conclusion is: waltzing down the street hollering "I'm singing in the rain" would be fine, but waltzing down the street hollering "I'm crotching at my groin" will most probably get you locked up. Thank you.