It seems readers may have only one thing on their mind - sex. No matter what we write, someone is going to take it the wrong way. OK, we should give readers a choice - that way they can find a word that suits them. Eh, maybe not. They may be so hot and bothered when they reach the end of that sentence that we will have to dump a pail of water on them to cool them off.
Some people just take everything the wrong way.
Which comments on the antecedent. The columnist, James Kilpatrick, used to write a weekly newspaper column, The Writer's Art . On the other hand, compared to his refined writing, he might call my work ugly. To be compared with got.