This is especially true for the communication between different age groups. As a result of all this, discussions often lead nowhere, misunderstandings abound, and communication breaks down. At the same time, many formerly silent sexual minorities are speaking out, trying to free themselves from negative semantic labels or to give them a new, positive meaning. Furthermore, there is now a growing army of sexologists who are busy coining new words and expressions every day, and who are confusing not only the general public, but also each other with their various cabalistic and neo-archaic professional jargons. As we have seen in this book, the current standard terms for sex organs and sexual behavior are often pretentious, difficult to pronounce, imprecise, and misleading, while the simpler, more graphic slang expressions are considered 'dirty' and cannot be used in polite conversation. In our society it is not always easy to talk about sex.
You'd better be known for your hypocrite ways The Angles and Saxons, those bawdy old birds,īut cherish the use of the weaseling phrase Oh perish the use of the four-letter words
