Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language

174 Forbidden Words
seen through a handful of examples that to speak of sex or bodily effluvia,
self-censoring human beings use figurative language and/or verbal play in
generating X-phemisms, many of which show remarkable inventiveness of
either figure or form; and some are indubitably playful. In such ways do
taboos drive the renewal of language.