Is it acceptable to publish profantiy?

Answer 1

Apparently, since it's done all the time. I personally try to avoid it. Two examples: I stopped my subscription to The New Yorker due to their use of profanity; I wrote and told them so. On a question in Yahoo! Answers this morning, a young mother used profanity (with asterisks, as seems the way to slip it by) and I used part of my response to chastise her for it. Profanity is a sure sign of ignorance; it is very popular among the vocabulary challenged.

Answer 2

If a journalist is quoting an interviewee, it is perfectly acceptable, however the appropriateness for the readership must be taken into consideration.

An author of fiction may choose to use profanity as part of the characters' dialogues. That too is acceptable. However, it is not acceptable as part of the narrative.

Answer 3

Only if it's essential to convey the point of the artistic medium. Meaning "Saving Private Ryan" is okay to have curses in it because that's what it was really like during the wars. Other than that, it's just profanity

Answer 4

First Ammendent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech