I don't think I know a single person that actually uses the word "nips" to denote female anatomy. I wonder if the NIPS renaming debate goes back to a misunderstanding, where women assume that men secretly use that word to talk about them, and men assume that other, bad men do?
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There are lots of disgusting/suggestive/salacious etc. words I rarely hear but know what they conjure and therefore wouldn't choose as a conference name. Frequency of use has nothing to do with it. Who cares how often it appears on a trend graph?
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It does not seem to be significant enough to not name very innocent candy with the same word, and it also did not impair the conference in the past 30 years. I wonder if the thing that is going on is a sudden awakening of society, or a sudden psychosis.
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The most frequent contexts in which the word appears in written English seem innocuous (and poetic?).
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(Didn't do any forking paths, but I probably should have pre-committed that I'd post this if usage were generally vulgar.)
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