Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
Two entirely different words for two entirely different things, both of them bad but one many times worse than the other.
I would question the basis of the assertion that the f-word is uniformly negative. (Crude, yes, but that's not the same thing as bad.) Your earlier breakdown of f-word v. sex v. love-making seems subjective, aesthetic and personal in nature. Such definitions have real power to an individual, but they aren't a basis for etymological understanding or usage in general. Really, that's my main point of disagreement.