euphemism
When an offensive, harsh or blunt expression is replaced with a mild, indirect or vague one.
Visual euphemisms exist, too, such as the one used for Akiyama Mio's accidental pantyshot in the K-On! anime (a stripped bowl of rice) or when swastika or the hammer and sickle are replaced with more innocuous symbols to avoid offending the audience and/or so the work won't run afoul of laws banning the public display of either symbols.
An orthographic euphemism is spelling a word deliberately wrong (e.g. "porn" becomes "pr0n", "n0rp" or "prawn") to circumvent censorship algorithms on the usenet, websites, social media apps, etc.
Examples
- post #453643 (sex is a "home-run")
- post #215070 (semen is "aura")
- post #6598431 ("sex" is misspelled as "segs")
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The following tags are aliased to this tag: sexual_euphemism (learn more).
