question: Why are curse words censored?
comment: Curse words are censored in order to make the show more appealing to a wider audience, which in turn makes these shows more appealing for advertising. Some people find curse words to be upsetting or they don’t want their kids hearing them. As for how curse words came about I’m not sure how they originated.
passages: In the 1945 war film "A Walk in the Sun", the screenplay substitutes "loving" for "fucking" (the universal American soldier's descriptor).
  
  In "A Christmas Story", the character Ralphie is punished by his parents for saying "Oh, fuck," although the offensive word is replaced with "fudge" in the film. The narrator, an adult version of Ralphie (voiced by Jean Shepherd), explains that "I didn't say fudge. I said THE word...the queen mother of dirty words: the F-dash-dash-dash word."
  
  In the 1984 film "Johnny Dangerously", the character Roman Maronie is known for butchering the English language, especially English vulgarities:
   Section::::Legality.:United States.
   In December 2017, it emerged that the Trump administration had potentially banned the use of certain words by the Centers for Disease Control in its written budget proposal for FY2018. The Director of the CDC, Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, refuted this in a statement saying, "I want to assure you there are no banned words at CDC. We will continue to talk about all our important public health programs."
  
  Section::::Medium.
  
  Section::::Medium.:Art.
   Euphemisms can also used to downplay the gravity of large-scale injustices, war crimes, or other events that warrant a pattern of avoidance in official statements or documents. For instance, one reason for the comparative scarcity of written evidence documenting the exterminations at Auschwitz, relative to their sheer number, is "directives for the extermination process obscured in bureaucratic euphemisms".
  
  Section::::Avoiding non-linguistic taboos.:Religion.
   Section::::Background.
   BULLET::::- In the workplace
   There is one notable exception to the general censorship. "Crap" has been used by the natives of Erfworld, both before and after Parson is summoned there. Only Jillian Zamussels' use of the word has been other than literal, though the earliest use by Lady Firebaugh could have been taken as both a literal observation and a curse word. Artist Jamie Noguchi has stated that he does not believe the word "crap" to be profanity.
   Fairman discusses the efforts of conservatives in the United States to censor the word from common parlance in the country, and says these acts are opposed to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Fairman warns against a tendency toward self-censorship. He explains that those who choose to silence themselves tacitly encourage a process by which speech is forbidden through the legal process. He argues that this passivity has an impact of increasing the taboo nature of the word.
   In Brazil, the Penal Code does not contain any penalties for profanity in public in a direct manner. However, direct offenses against one can be considered a crime against honor, with a penalty of imprisonment of one to three months or a fine. The analysis of the offense is considered "subjective", depending on the context of the discussion and the relationship between the parts.
  
  Section::::Legality.:Canada.
   Censorship came to America with the "Mayflower" "when the governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts, William Bradford learned [in 1629] that Thomas Morton of Merrymount, in addition to his other misdeed, had 'composed sundry rhymes and verses, some tending to lasciviousness' the only solution was to send a military expedition to break up Morton's high-living."
   In Tom Hanks's web series "Electric City", the use of profanity has been censored by the word "expletive". "[Expletive deleted]" entered public discourse after its notorious use in censoring transcripts of the Watergate tapes.
  
  In Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series, the curses of the scientist Ebling Mis have all been replaced with the word "unprintable". In fact, there is only one case of his curses being referred to as such, leading some readers to mistakenly assume that the euphemism is Ebling's, rather than Asimov's. The same word has also been used in his short story "Flies".
   BULLET::::- "Gone with the Wind", a 1939 film based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell includes the line "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn". This has been wrongly asserted to be among the first uses of profanity in a major American film. In fact, films produced in America prior to 1935 occasionally used strong language and gestures.
  
  BULLET::::- "Seven Dirty Words" is a 1972 comedy monologue by George Carlin in which he named the seven words that, he said, must never be used in a television broadcast.
   The term "profane" originates from classical Latin "profanus", literally "before (outside) the temple". It carried the meaning of either "desecrating what is holy" or "with a secular purpose" as early as the 1450s. Profanity represented secular indifference to religion or religious figures, while blasphemy was a more offensive attack on religion and religious figures, considered sinful, and a direct violation of The Ten Commandments. Moreover, many Bible verses speak against swearing.
   Section::::Reception.
   Section::::Minced oaths.
  
  Minced oaths are euphemistic expressions made by altering or clipping profane words and expressions to make them less objectionable. Although minced oaths are often acceptable in situations where profanity is not (including the radio), some people still consider them profanity. In 1941, a judge threatened a lawyer with contempt of court for using the word "darn"..
  
  Section::::Impact on society.
   Profanity refers to language that is generally considered to be strongly impolite, rude, or offensive. Profanity may often serve an exclamation function, although typically it is used to insult another person. Thus, as a form of verbal violence, it is often considered taboo in polite company and subject to censoring (either by speakers themselves, or by some authority). 
   Because of its increasing usage in the public forum, in 2005 the word was included for the first time as one of three vulgarities in The Canadian Press's "Canadian Press Caps and Spelling" guide. Journalists were advised to refrain from censoring the word but use it sparingly and only when its inclusion was essential to the story.
  
  Section::::Etymology.
   The history of curse words and profanity was part of spoken words in medieval era. The word "fuck" was used in English in the fifteenth century, though the usage in earlier times of 13th century was not with abusive intent. The word "shit" is the oldest of words in use with early references found in German and Scandinavia languages.
  
  Section::::Research.
   Section::::Research.:Types by purpose.
  
  According to Steven Pinker, there are five possible functions of swearing:
  
  BULLET::::- Abusive swearing, intended to offend, intimidate or otherwise cause emotional or psychological harm
  
  BULLET::::- Cathartic swearing, used in response to pain or misfortune
  
  BULLET::::- Dysphemistic swearing, used to convey that the speaker thinks negatively of the subject matter, and to make the listener do the same
  
  BULLET::::- Emphatic swearing, intended to draw additional attention to what is considered to be worth paying attention to
   In the Nickelodeon children's show "iCarly", characters often use the term "chizz" as a general purpose expletive, most often used in place of 'shit'.  "iCarly" is notorious for its thinly veiled adult humor.  Likewise, in the spinoff "Sam & Cat", the term "wazz" is used in place of 'piss'.
  
  Characters in the series "The Good Place" find themselves in an afterlife where they are incapable of using profanity. When they intend to curse, the word instead comes out as a benign minced oath such as "fork" for "fuck", "shirt" for "shit", or "bench" for "bitch".
   One of the more infamous TV edits is that of John McClane's iconic line from "Die Hard", "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker" is changed to "Yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falcon".
  
  The TV edit of the film "The Usual Suspects", instead of having the police lineup say, "Give me the keys, you fucking cocksucker", they say "Give me the keys, you fairy godmother".
   Changing social customs and standards also create new taboos, such as bans on slavery; extension of the pedophilia taboo to ephebophilia; prohibitions on alcohol, tobacco, or psychopharmaceutical consumption (particularly among pregnant women); and the employment of politically correct euphemismsat times quite unsuccessfullyto mitigate various alleged forms of discrimination.
   Religious curses generally; depending on the listener, location, and their culture, among other things; include the words damn, God, and hell, while words such as fuck, shit, and bitch are generally seen as non-religious curses in the western world.
  
  Section::::Language.:Profanity.
  
  Profanity are words that are considered hateful or contemptuous, especially in regard to religion. 
   Curse words, or cursing, have been recognized by religious organizations as being able to cause actual mental and physical harm. More recently such words have separated themselves from their religious meanings, and it is doubtful that those who use curse words imagine the words will bring actual mental or physical harm. Both parties are aware that the cursing is simply an expression, and the ones receiving the curse words or phrase are aware they are being targeted.
   "Library Journal" described the book as a sincere analysis of "fuck" and its history of censorship. The review characterized the book as of a higher quality than "The Compleat Motherfucker: A History of the Mother of all Dirty Words" (2009) by Jim Dawson. Ian Crouch of "The New Yorker" praised the cover design for the book. Crouch observed that the word "Fuck" was shown partially obscured by correction fluid but was still clearly evident in full. He concluded this was an appropriate image for a book on free speech and word taboo.
  
raw_presuppositions: Curse words shouldn't be censored.
raw_corrections: We don't want kids to hear them so they are censored. 