num_pages: 368
description: What flower takes its name from the human testicle? Is your husband rantallion? Does your wife wear a merkin? What's a wittol, and why were they once drummed out of town while sitting backwards on a horse? Is sacofricosis a crime, a disease or an hors d'oeuvre? Morton roams through centuries of etymological lore to answer these and many other questions.
language: English
title: Dirty Words: The Story of Sex Talk
titlecomplete: Dirty Words: The Story of Sex Talk
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Atlantic