Swearing linked to availability of fucking?

[ErosWired]

This article is fascinating:

[think before following links] https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/mapping-the-united-swears-of-america/

It’s a linguistic study of the distribution of the use of swear words in the United States. Check this out->

 

Note the distinct negative register of the use of fuck in Kentucky and Tennessee. Note also the distinct difficulty in actually finding a fuck in those places. I’m not saying it’s a direct correlation, but it’s interesting.

If you look at the many other maps in the article, however, a pattern emerges - there are some places in the country where sex-related explicit terms are strongly not prevalent at all, across the board. Again, Kentucky is one of those. I can’t help thinking that these maps of linguistic use are at the same time maps of repressive cultural values.

Take a look, see what you think,