You're not gonna like the piece I'm about to publish then, RC. It's got a good dose of profanity in it. As Matt Damon once said, "People from Boston use the [F word] as a bridge between thoughts." There was a study done in 2015 that said well-educated people who use profanity have more verbal fluency than their counterparts, that the use of profanity (not at an extreme level, obviously) is a sign of creativity, social intelligence, and that cursing improves pain tolerance. Make what you will of the study. But I am of the believe that a well-placed curse word in writing (for a mature audience), as long as it's done sparingly, can be very impactful. Of course, I get your position. My mother is the same way. She loves comedy but is very turned off by curse words and therefore will only listen to clean comedy acts such as Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan. To each his own, most certainly.