Profanity abounds, but does anyone else give a f---?

I’m not a prude and I’ve been known to utter "bad words" on occasion, but it seems as though whatever barriers once existed to profanity in polite society have died a quiet death.

New York Times bestselling author Michael Levin runs www.MichaelLevinWrites.com, a book ghostwriting firm.

I’m not a prude and I’ve been known to utter "bad words" on occasion, but it seems as though whatever barriers once existed to profanity in polite society have died a quiet death. 

I first saw the four-letter word for excrement in print in a community newspaper around 1968, when I was 10, long before pooper scooping became the law. The writer was complaining about dog feces left on the sidewalks, but he sure didn’t write "feces."