Nudity, Is It Sexist In This Forum?

[bennyboy]

ETA: according to http://www.snopes.com
"The word shit entered the modern English language via having been derived from the Old English nouns scite and the Middle Low German schite, both meaning "dung," and the Old English noun scitte, meaning "diarrhea." Our most treasured cuss word has been with us a long time, showing up in written works both as a noun and as a verb as far back as the 14th century."

If you read Shakespeare, you'll see quite a lot of dirty language. And he's Shakespeare.

It's pretty clear that a lot of these body-related swear words come from the English Victorian mindset-- shame about the weakness and filth of the human body in a general sense. It makes sense given the dawn of the industrial age and the sense that machines, if well-designed, could be "perfect," along with the budding of biological science, which showed how obvious it was that humans are "just" animals, wallowing in the muck with the rest of them. Not encouraging for a Christian culture that wants to keep believing that man was created in the image of an all-perfect God.

Asians, on the other hand, are OBSESSED with poop. Several Asian countries have poop-related museums, poop-themed restaurants, poop-themed animation children's-show characters, etc. I think that's because they never really went through that Victorian mindset.