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Sex and Euphemism
- Abstract
In the beginning was the Word. There followed, at an undetermined but (one assumes) decent interval, private, harsh, and dirty words. Invention here being the mother of necessity, the need for euphemism arose.
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Joseph Epstein is a regular contributor to COMMENTARY.
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