“It?”

September 11

Growing up, “sex” was always referred to as “it”. Now, you could examine the similarities of these two words and depending upon how you look at it they may be quite similar. In society and now even more than ever, sex has been a very popular issue, subject, conversation, thought, commercial, and so on. With all these things in mind sex could very logically be referred to as “it”. “it” is usually everything: a cat , a microwave, a baseball, a shoe, a flower, or me and you. We are all “it” and “it” is also “sex”. I know, very confusing and very complex, I really don’t even think I understand “it”. But anyhow, “it” is a euphemism for sex. It is usually so much easier to say “it” than to say “sex”. This is probably because “it” is so discrete and has a number of connotations. Sex is viewed in society as such a blunt and sometimes vulgar word. In conclusion, instead of saying “Hey that commercial was all about sex”, which would be said with much difficulty, you would use a euphemism to say in a hushed tone, “Hey that commercial was all about ‘it’ “.

 

• In this assignment we were supposed to write about euphemisms.

• I really liked this journal because I found it humorous. I never had given much thought about the euphemism of “sex”; however, the more I thought about it, “sex” actually had a euphemism. I found this funny because this euphemism illustrates how immature our society really is.

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