I do wonder how much of this is the seeming aversion to context that a subset of Americans seem to have. The meaning of words varies by context, that's like, a normal thing in English. If I said in a meeting that I'd been "pissing about the office whilst waiting for John to be done in his other meeting", that doesn't mean I'd been urinating on the carpets!

Edit: another funny piss example - if I'd spent my holiday learning to jetski should I avoid telling colleagues how I've discovered I enjoy watersports?

A gimp is a sex thing in one context but that's clearly not the context one would be discussing in terms of software, so why does it matter?