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Posted on 01/16/2026 10:42:47 PM PST by Olog-hai
You stub your toe on the bedpost. Before your brain even registers the pain, a word explodes from your mouth — sharp, loud and oddly satisfying. Far from being a simple slip in manners, swearing is a reflex rooted deep in the structure of the human body, drawing on networks in the brain and autonomic nervous system that evolved to help us survive pain and shock.
Research shows that a well-placed expletive can dull pain, regulate the heart and help the body recover from stress. The occasional outburst, it seems, isn’t a moral failure — it’s a protective reflex wired into us.
The impulse to swear begins far below the level of conscious speech. Most everyday language originates in the cerebral cortex, where ideas are shaped into words. Swearing, however, lights up a much older network — the limbic system, which governs emotion, memory and survival responses. […]
Recent research shows that swearing can actually change how much pain people can handle. A 2024 review looked at studies on swearing’s pain-reducing effects and found consistent evidence that people who repeated taboo words could keep their hands in icy water significantly longer than those who repeated neutral words.
Another 2024 report found that swearing can also increase physical strength during certain tasks, further supporting the idea that the body’s response is real rather than merely psychological. …
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“But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.”“Research shows” that we have to throw off all of the moral standards we were taught, because “research”. Good old EUSSR attacking the core of society again.
— Colossians 3:8
Well, I’ll be a...
$#^ of a $%^&!@# #$%&@..... this $@&*!^#% article has got to #$%^&*@ be the biggest @#$%^& pile of horse@#$% I’ve ever #$%^@#* read in the entire $%^#@!& history of FR. \;^)
Totally agree. Couldn’t have said it better.
I don’t smoke, drink or cuss, but I know I left my !@#$&(%#- cigarettes at the bar last night.
Sometimes Dadgummit don’t encompass WTF. IMO.
Then black women should be living forever!
🦬💩!!!
Research also shows that cursing a blue streak also helps me cope with my school’s football team screwing up and losing.
I the research is accurate then I’ll live forever.
My late, dear mom-in-law lived a very long and happy life.
And in all the decades I knew her, I never heard a swear word pass her lips.
That’s the spirit!
Actually this could be a handy link to save!
😊😎
If it was a “ it’s a protective reflex wired into us. “ it would have prevented the accident.
This so called study has been performed years ago. And when “older portion of the brain” is referred to,it destroys any credibility of the article. God did not create part of the brain before another part.
Thread killer bump!
🤔😎
well I am healthy as a horse then.
Profound! 😁😆
My mom was so proud that after one of Dad’s verbal abusive attacks she said, “I don’t give a damn!” That probably is the only time she ever swore.
I’ll tell that to my mother the next time she hollers at me cuz of a bad word.
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