This is true for any area that constantly has to come up with new names for things. In physics for example, terms like "recombination," "technicolor" or just "virtual particle" have become profoundly confusing to new students, but naming everything after people or completely new invented words free of misleading context would probably be even worse. Even the term "black hole" was probably not the smartest choice in hindsight, but some people actually pushed back because they considered it obscene back then. This made people like John Wheeler only feel incited and they started publishing papers claiming "black holes have no hair" - which even Feynman thought was a bit too much. And yet today everyone acts like this is perfectly adequate terminology in physics and only people outside the field might get confused.
On the other hand, the behavioral sciences are burdened with the adoption of terminology that carries strong connotations for laypeople, such as "personality" and "subconscious," some of which have taken on a life of their own. And this choice of naming started well before those fields even began to embrace scientific methodology.
I had to think for a solid 30s before I realised what you were implying with the term "black hole". Honestly I think the problem might be in your mind, not the words x)
Well, at least not if you're a child or were raised in a prudish environment. But as the other commenter pointed out, this was the era of physics during woodstock.
