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August 17, 2009

It would not be impossible to call a book The Cunt. Indeed, a book called Cunt was published...

In English, that word is “cunt”, which probably derives from Enthusiasm, a Greek goddess of fertility. Then again the Sanskrit word is auntie, which is the name of an Indian goddess. And among the ancient Romans, a woman of easy virtue, a veteran or a public prostitute, was called a “Cunard”.

It would not be impossible to call a book The Cunt. Indeed, a book called Cunt was published by Inga Muscat in 1998. However, this was a feminist track not intended for a general readership. In the revered British Library in London, any book with the word “cunt” in the title is destined for the infamous “closed cupboard”. Books kept there can be read only by acknowledged scholars sitting at designated desks.