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Is tits considered a borderline profanity or an absolute one? What about rump?

I would say that "tits" is non-borderline and "rump" is borderline.

Shirley Ann Riddern Labzentis wrote: ↑03 Jan 2024, 16:52 I would say that "tits" is non-borderline and "rump" is borderline.

Thank you so much. I thought the same but did not know for sure. You really helped me out here .

I still get confused between borderline and non borderline profanities. I found while reviewing words like tits, bullshit, pain in the ass, bang (implying sexual activity)

I think that the profanity list should be updated as I noticed that it doesn't include a lot of the everyday slang that writers use. Maybe I'll compile a list and send it to admin and see what they say.

Thanks for your answer ,I think you're absolutely right , and if you work on something like the list you mentioned–it would be appreciated especially by the non-native speakers who review books.

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I would say that “rump” isn’t profanity at all. On the official guide, it says that “butt” isn’t profanity. I don’t think “rump” is any worse than saying “butt.”

This may be helpful. I just copied and pasted it from the guidelines regarding profanity:

"With all that said, if there is a word that you do not know whether to mark as (1) profanity, versus (2) not profanity, versus (3) borderline profanity, then email a verbatim quote of the full sentence containing the word to ProfanityQuestion@OnlineBookClub.org and we will give you an official answer."
I asked them about a word last week, and they gave me a definite answer.