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When my son was in elementary another kid kicked him between the legs and so my son went in and told the teacher that this kid kicked him in the penis. My son's teacher got upset with my son and told him he should not use "those kind of words" and never did address the kid that kicked my son. When my son came home that day and told me about it I went straight back over to the school to catch the teacher before she left for the day. I asked her what SHE would have said & she said "privates or something" would be fine. WHATEVER! I told her that I had taught my son the proper names of his body and that there is nothing to be ashamed of and that I expected her to apologize to my son for "correcting" him for using the proper term. Then I expected her to apologize for not punishing the kid that kicked him in the PENIS followed by corrective action to the other kid. She did everything I told her I expected of her but I am sure it wasn't what she wanted to do.
My telling of this story was not intended to highjack the thread but to show another example of how the proper use of body parts gets thrown out of wack by closed minded, uptight people.
Yes, I agree with the fact that the author could have had the bite occurr somewhere else and been just as effective. However, for whatever his reasoning to choose the scrotum, at least he used the proper term!
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