Is Swearing Good For You?

[via the Feast of Fools multi-award-winning podcast. LifeLuber Jim Pickett swore up a shite storm with these crazy boys last week... Click here to go right to the flippin' show.]

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Corn sarn it! Like it or hate it, cursing may actually be good for you.

A recent study by a British University on 100 British and American people found that cursing actually can serve to relieve stress and allow groups of people to vent frustration and build stronger relationships, if done wisely. If not, you just sound like Alec Baldwin talking to his daughter on the phone, you little pig!

Professor Yehuda Baruch from the University of East Anglia who oversaw the study said: “Managers need to understand how their staff feel about swearing. The challenge is to master the art of knowing when to turn a blind eye.”

Fabulous! Podcasts, free of FCC regulations, may actually provide some health benefits to them by encouraging you to express yourself freely and openly.

On today’s show we exercise that right by talking to one of fabulous local friends, Jim Pickett, director of Advocacy for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, the Midwest’s largest AIDS advocacy group. Jim used to perform at the live shows back in the day (1999) and now works full time working to teach, preach and inform people about the pending issues that people living with HIV/AIDS face today.

Like P-Diddy says, “we all have AIDS.” If one of us has it it, everyone has it. So you owe it to yourself to get tested and find out more about this life threatening disease.

On the show with Owen Keehnan two weeks ago we were talking about “bareback” porn where the actors purposely do not use condoms. I made the comparison to other types of risky behavior that Hollywood used to portray often but doesn’t anymore and offered the perspective that perhaps one day the American porn industry won’t be making as much of this type of porn because audiences wont identify with it as much as they do today. One of our lovely listeners, Curtis pointed out that I might be wrong in making the comparison between smoking in film and condomless sex in film. He feels that perhaps the motivations are these types of behaviors is different. We ask Jim his thoughts on these subjexcts and invite you the listener to tell us what do you think?

Being diagnosed with HIV doesn’t mean the end of your life in any way. But it does mean you are now living with a disease, and you need to take good care of yourself. Understandably, there is a difficulty that people face when they are involved in relationships where both participants do not have the same HIV status or as we like to say are engaged in “sero discordant relationships.” Say it with us a folks, “sero discordant relationships.” Well, I have to tell you if Chris Evans told me he was deeply in love with me and was HIV positive, we’d still manage to make it work, but having been in mixed HIV status relationship in the past myself, I know it’s not easy...

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