The F-Word

If it is your serious intent to insult someone, why would you want to wish them with one of life's principle pleasures?
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John the Barman An interesting quote from D H Lawrence 'Lady Chatterley's Lover':

That's why I don't like to start thinking about you actually. It only tortures me, and does you no good. I don't want you to be away from me. But if I start fretting it wastes something. Patience, always patience. This is my fortieth winter. And I can't help all the winters that have been. But this winter I'll stick to my little Pentecost flame, and have some peace. And I won't let the breath of people blow it out. I believe in a higher mystery, that doesn't let even the crocus be blown out. And if you're in Scotland and I'm in the Midlands, and I can't put my arms round you, and wrap my legs round you, yet I've got something of you. My soul softly Naps in the little Pentecost flame with you, like the peace of f-cking. We f-cked a flame into being. Even the flowers are f-cked into being between the sun and the earth. But it's a delicate thing, and takes patience and the long pause.

So I love chastity now, because it is the peace that comes of f-cking. I love being chaste now. I love it as snowdrops love the snow. I love this chastity, which is the pause of peace of our f-cking, between us now like a snowdrop of forked white fire. And when the real spring comes, when the drawing together comes, then we can f-ck the little flame brilliant and yellow, brilliant. But not now, not yet! Now is the time to be chaste, it is so good to be chaste, like a river of cool water in my soul. I love the chastity now that it flows between us. It is like fresh water and rain. How can men want wearisomely to philander. What a misery to be like Don Juan, and impotent ever to f-ck oneself into peace, and the little flame alight, impotent and unable to be chaste in the cool between-whiles, as by a river.

Well, so many words, because I can't touch you. If I could sleep with my arms round you, the ink could stay in the bottle. We could be chaste together just as we can f-ck together. But we have to be separate for a while, and I suppose it is really the wiser way. If only one were sure.
 9/28/2006
John the Barman I live in Scotland and 'f-ckin' is just part of the f-ckin conversation rather like, like, f-ckin punctuation. It's f-ckin meaningless.

I do think the way it's commonly used betrays a deep disrespect for women and the sexual act.
D. H. Laurence uses it in a way that enriches life.
'F-ck' and 'f-cking' are good words in the right context, better than 'the sexual act'		 9/28/2006
LeTravis Lyons The "F" word is a word that i find to be very irrelevant. It shows that we have such regressive mindsets that we get offended by simple words. This goes back to the quote that many young chldren were taught. It goes as follows: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt them." If one is offended by such words then it shows them flawful themselves. I know that it wanders slightly away from the topic at hand, but it can be closely linked to it. 6/12/2006
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