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This particular foible may have been initiated by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), who had been a preacher before concentrating on being an important literary man.
The question remains: is this simply a human foible, or have we as a culture grown ever more fond of sanitizing and sweeping under the carpet?
Unfortunately, this is hardly just a foible of youth; rather, it seems endemic to cultures that have shied away from the abattoir and the baseness of human behavior.