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When it was used, it was used, as Ashley Montagu said, "sotto voce , like a smuggler cautiously making his way across a forbidden frontier."
The anthropologist Ashley Montagu, whose Anatomy of Swearing , published in 1967, is the definitive modern take on the subject, saw profanity as a safety valve rather than a stimulant, a verbal substitute for physical aggression.
When someone swears, Montagu wrote, "potentially noxious energy is converted into a form that renders it comparatively innocuous."