":::Then it's high time it wasn't considered ""highly controversial"". It's just another word after all, and words can only have the power you give them. I'm rather fed up with all the middle-American prudishness around here, and I will kick against whenever I feel like it. I'm reminded about some objections to the use of the word slut in a quoted translation in an article I worked on recently. Fucking ridiculous.    

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