It’s more good news on the scientific front for the front row stalwarts this week. Only a few days ago we discovered that us rugged chaps are the true sex gods of sport an now we find that swearing can actually make us tougher!
According to this article in the Daily Telegraph scientists at Keele University have discovered that a fruity outburst helps the potty mouth player withstand pain for longer.
Once again it’s all down to evolution and in this case it is believed that swearing has evolved to raise the aggression levels and thus reduce the feeling of pain. Dr Richard Stephens states:
"Increased aggression has been shown to reduce people’s sensitivity to pain, so it could be swearing is helping this process."
However be warned, while a foul mouth tirade may help when you’re being driven nose first into the muck by another collapsed scrum it is still not an acceptable form of communication between, say, a coach and his players.
In this case it is put down to "catastrophism", where there the drama-queen inside everyone takes over (a bit like footballers really) so let’s hope that last seasons outburst was down to a certain coach stubbing their toe!
The study does not state if a four lettered outburst will reduce the pain of defeat, but Raging Raven reckons it does!
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