Recently a paper was published demonstrating that volunteers were able to withstand pain for longer when they cursed versus when they said a non-sense word.
What is clear,” Stephens told Reuters, “is that swearing elicits both an emotional response and a physical one, too. This response could shed light on why the age-old practice of cursing developed, and still is in existence today.
Maybe we should try this here at home. Can I withstand a paddling better when cursing than when not? Hey, middle of a heat wave, all the windows are shut. What better time to be loud than when all the windows are closed.