I swear...this is the truth!!!

Why do people feel the need to swear?

I understand the fact that in an event of surprise, a lot of anger or sheer disgust a word or two may be uttered from the mouth. Or someone may have the habbit, just like "um" or "uhh", to say something foul. Leaving aside the purpose of an exclamatory audible, swear words have shifted into greetings, adjectives, adverbs and nouns or can also be seen as attractive incentives for promoting a certain expression!

"Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his rap to sell a record, well I do. So *&^# him and (*&# you too!" - Eminem

However, this is because somewhere, sometime, someone else did the same thing. Now, trying to trace it back, who, where and when came up with this alternative "fill in the line"-er?
Why is it enjoyed by so many people? Why does one get addicted to it so much? Just as nerds love to read, girls love gossip, drinkers love the booze and pretty people want to get prettier, what do you call someone who is connected to swear words in such an analogy?
One rendition could be the natural tendancy of humans to do something they're told NOT to do.

I don't want to be hypocrytical, so I will clarify firstly that yes, I do swear, cuss, badmouth...perhaps also agree to the fact that I do it more often than i realise my frequency! However, neither am I so much into swearing that such thoughts have started coming to my mind making me feel bad about it!

I was searching for my keys the other day, after reaching in my bag, the usual spot where they lie and not reaching the keys instantly, there was a timeframe of a fraction of a second where I just opened up a cuss-can, and in the next fraction my fingers reached the keys. At the instant I felt the need to take back that partial word which i was about to spit out. It was after that which the thought was raised in my mind as to why this happens?



Upon listening to many people over some time, and even myself sometimes. Each phrase is heavily injected with the dirtymouth syrup, and for what purpose? Although I'm a frequent member of the S and F club, I don't know why i joined, or when I joined.

If you are in this as well, try to give it a thought.
If I am not shocked, surprised, disgusted or insulting someone, then why did I just swear??
And if this thought comes to your mind just when you're about to swear, take note of the immense stream of thought that you'll travel into just on this one little question!!! (If you like to think on things, that is!)
Perhaps the accumulation of such concern may one day begin a search for the root of this fucking problem!!