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Attitude towards sex

שו”תCategory: generalAttitude towards sex
asked 6 years ago

Why do people curse you, “Taz…”? Apparently it’s not a curse? People use the same thing and its opposite, saying “A broken car” or “A bomb car”… I don’t understand.
The same thing about Ben Zu.. they say “Yehchit Ben Zu” as a curse, sometimes the other way around, “You are excellent Ben Zu.”
Sorry, the question is not appropriate for the site. It seems to me to be an academic topic.

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מיכי Staff answered 6 years ago

It seems to me that this belongs in the field of psychology and the study of slang.

שי זילברשטיין replied 6 years ago

It seems to me that using sex as a curse is actually an experience of humiliation towards the person to whom the word is directed. Sex is a gross thing and evokes negative connotations, similar to other curses that mention feces or bodily secretions or unsympathetic animals that when a person calls another person by, the intention is to humiliate him.

נחום replied 6 years ago

You didn't answer why it's sometimes used as praise.

שי זילברשטיין replied 6 years ago

Sometimes there is also a motif of power in it. Rudeness is violent, so sometimes it is said as an expression of appreciation.

There is a psychoanalytic interpretation that believes that it is the result of hidden envy, so the person does not say “Well done” but uses ”humor” to hide the envy or hatred. As Freud said about the sentence “I want to eat that child” as a violent expression that comes from the unconscious part that wants to attack the child. But apparently it is individual and cannot be said in general except for each person and their mental path.

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