F*CK

     I somewhat pride myself on not using certain words in my daily vocabulary. Words that would have had my mouth washed out with soup when I was younger. Words that would get a switching. Words not said around my grandmother.

When a pre-teen, used these words to express what I couldn’t understand and usually found they didn’t help. Like smoking cigarettes, using profanatory didn’t make me cool.

Now with social media, some of these words, like the N-word or the G•O•D word or any word to get a shock treatment for a phrase you can’t explain, is being readily used in comments and now in news cast. Like the flashing lights and the loud music, when someone says one of these words to get the attention of the viewer or the reader. You can tell what is acceptable by how many blips there are.

 

      F*ck is an English-language profanity which often refers to the act of sexual intercourse, but is also commonly used as an intensifier or to convey disdain. While its origin is obscure, it is usually considered to be first attested to around 1475. An early 16th century of Germanic origin (compare Swedish dialect focka and Dutch dialect fokkelen ) this F*CK was invented. In modern usage, the term f*ck and its derivatives (such as f*cker and f*cking) are used as a noun, a verb, an adjective, an interjection or an adverb. There are many common phrases that employ the word as well as compounds that incorporate it, such as mother*cker and f*ck off.

The Oxford English Dictionary states that the ultimate etymology is uncertain, but that the word is "probably cognate" with a number of Germanic words with meanings involving striking, rubbing and having sex or is derivative of the Old French word that meant 'to have sex'.

 

Other terms for the F*CK word would be sexual intercourse, sex, lovemaking, making love, sex act, act of love, sexual relations, intimate relations, intimacy, coupling, mating, going to bed with someone, sleeping with someone, nookie, bonking, rumpy pumpy, a bit of the other, how's your father, pata-pata, coitus, coition, copulation, fornication, carnal knowledge, (sexual) congress, commerce, screwing or shagging to name a few.

One of the mysteries of this word, is how romantic or intimate interpretations are used. Even in the sensual movies, couples are ‘hooking up’ or ‘sleeping together’ rather than the truth that they will be doing the horizonal hooky pokey reserved for pornography. Whether this is a one-time physical exercise or a life changing love making affair with a future of making a family together, doesn’t explain why they just meet and say, “You wanna F*CK?”

 

No one questioned what was going on behind closed bedroom doors, but without this process, you wouldn’t be here. The church didn’t want to talk about the begetting part of the Bible or whether Mary was old enough to get her period when she was impregnated. School was forbidden to discuss doing it in Biology, leaving it for the family to describe how the stork brought the babies. Some women were shunned for showing a baby bump out of wedlock while the married women gathered with parties and celebrations for the bringing of another life.

 

Then the F-word was used when hitting your thumb with a hammer or running your car into a wall without putting on the safety break or just trying to figure out what you can’t understand (WTF). It is just one of those words to use as an exclamation when the mental questioning cannot explain what is needed to say. So, they are called ‘curse’ words.

I’m sure there are lots of other words created by the next generation using body parts and evacuation functions that are necessary but disgusting.  Flush now.

 

As our culture changes, each generation must decide what thoughts and words are unacceptable in polite circles. If music must have a disclaimer of explicit language and movies must have an age rating, then what is measured as politically correct may include the F-word.

I don’t plan on using any of these words or phrases and it offends me when hearing public figures (including men and women of the cloth waving an ancient book of teachings and parables) throwing them out to keep the attention of an audience.