Exactly. One day, when I was a kid, I said something "sucked." I don't even remember where I learned that expression, but I'd been using it for a while before my dad finally heard and completely lost his shit, all red in the face and scary-angry, telling me that I was not allowed to use vulgar, sexual language like that, ever again.
But here's the thing: I had absolutely ZERO idea that "sucking" had any sexual connotation at all. I was a child. To me, sucking was what you did to a lollipop. Sucking is what a vacuum cleaner does. I had no clue that there was any "sexual" use for the word... until that day.
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u/sunsetgal24 Jan 02 '25
And it's not like a 5 year old has the context to understand what any of those words mean.