":::What's curious to me is that Wikipedia is like that microcosm's negative image. American speech has lost many of its taboos on language, and everyday gatherings of mixed sex and class, will utter several of the FCC's ""seven dirty words.""  Corporate boardrooms will rebound with ""shit"" and ""damn"" and ""ass.""  Impolite, gendered anatomical terms remain taboo (""tits,"" ""cunt,"" ""pussy,"" ""cock,"" but not ""dick"" or ""balls""), with ""cunt"" being the most taboo word in American English.  On the other hand, as every teen of both sexes gazes upon and downloads images of the most violent and ridiculous carnal behavior, our culture grows more reactionary about nudity. Famously, Wikipedia is populated by teenagers.  They are being ridden by the demons of their hormones, as are the young adults and the transgendereds, etc.  They act like a negative image of America.  They say, ""(hee hee) We should have really, really lots of penis pictures"" (the ultimate visual taboo), but commonplace ""shit"" (and now ""crap"") is alarming.  ""Taboo creates fetish,"" the man said, and Wikipedia illustrates that its users' interest in fetish lays atop a highly offended sensibility.     
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