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arero I have few words I hold back on except with strangers or prudes  A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw Jenny
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Words don't bother me much unless the intent is mean spirited
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Words fall in and out of fashion, don't they? I remember being surprised at the first use I remember in 1965 of "fuck" on British tv, followed a few years later by "cunt". I've unapologetically stolen the following little treasure from Wikipedia as it illustrates how sensitivities and word use have changed over centuries: "...the once common English street name Gropecunt Lane, whose etymology is a historical use of the street by prostitutes to ply their trade. During the Middle Ages the word cunt may often have been considered merely vulgar, having been in common use in its anatomical sense since at least the 13th century. Its steady disappearance from the English vernacular may have been the result of a gradual cleaning-up of the name; Gropecunt Lane in 13th century Wells became Grope Lane, and then in the 19th century, Grove Lane. In the city of York, Grapcunt Lane (grāp being the Old English word for "grope") was renamed Grope Lane and is now called Grape Lane."
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