When it's the government trying to cleanse your language, though, you should worry. Words are ideas. If the government controls the words we use, it can control what we think. To protect this liberty, we must first understand why the law's treatment of 'fuck' puts that freedom at risk. This book examines the law surrounding the word and reveals both inconsistencies in its treatment and tension with other identifiable legal rights that the law simply doesn't answer. This book provides the framework to understand these uncertainties. It also explains why attempts to curtail the use of 'fuck' through law are doomed to fail. Fundamentally, it persists because it is taboo; not in spite of it.