I so agree. It's not like the equivalents aren't the very first words delighted little boys try to figure out how to spell--and then move right on, if no one makes a fuss. It's the adult fuss that fixates attention on things, not the things themselves.
Some of these fussbudgets are forgetting that until relatively recently in human history, when most of us became city dwellers, people were kids in rural environments, and anyone who saw the village ox or horses or sheep or other domestic animals had few illusions about the many uses of body parts.
PS Scrotum is a funny word! I remember all those years ago, when my then-nine year old brother (he's pushing fifty now) used to use "scrotumacious" as his favorite adjective.
When I was elementaryt school age in the UK we used SCROTTY to describe anything unpleasant...I guess it was a combo of SCROTUM and another favorite: GROTTY.
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Some of these fussbudgets are forgetting that until relatively recently in human history, when most of us became city dwellers, people were kids in rural environments, and anyone who saw the village ox or horses or sheep or other domestic animals had few illusions about the many uses of body parts.
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