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A History of the C-Word

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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The Negative Connotations of Pussy

We are short of words that have any kind of precise meaning and they're not overburdened with by the hideously negative connotations or you know yeah like undercarriage and lady garden lady garden I mean for God's sake it's true. If we're actually embarrassed to say this stuff then you can't talk about it then you can’t communicate it and then we are in real trouble aren't we? The NHS had this absolutely terrible campaign to encourage young women to get cervical cancer screening where they used an image of three cats a hairless one a short head and a long head and they use the word pussy. It just seems mad that just really seemed to be crazy

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