What is so nasty about the word "F**K"?

Question

How did this word come about? Who invented it? Who used it first? Why is it so disgusting that the TV media have to bleep it. After all it's only a word. Why not bleep other words that sounds the same like fake, fook? Or why not bleep other words with same meaning like sexual intercourse? What is so nasty about "f**k"? I don't get it.

Consider the following:
Can I have sex with you?
Can I f**k you?
They mean the same thing do they not? And yet people are offended by the 2nd question.

Answer 1

I thought I'd cut and paste here from an online etymology source.
besides I wanted to see how many words Yahoo would censor here!!! :-)


****
a difficult word to trace, in part because it was taboo to the editors of the original OED when the "F" volume was compiled, 1893-97. Written form only attested from early 16c. OED 2nd edition cites 1503, in the form fukkit; earliest appearance of current spelling is 1535 -- "Bischops ... may **** thair fill and be vnmaryit" [Sir David Lyndesay, "Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits"], but presumably it is a much more ancient word than that, simply one that wasn't likely to be written in the kind of texts that have survived from O.E. and M.E. Buck cites proper name John le ****** from 1278. The word apparently is hinted at in a scurrilous 15c. poem, titled "Flen flyys," written in bastard L. and M.E. The relevant line reads:
Non sunt in celi
quia fuccant uuiuys of heli
"They [the monks] are not in heaven because they **** the wives of Ely." Fuccant is pseudo-L., and in the original it is written in cipher. The earliest examples of the word otherwise are from Scottish, which suggests a Scandinavian origin, perhaps from a word akin to Norw. dial. fukka "copulate," or Swedish dial. focka "copulate, strike, push," and fock "penis." Another theory traces it to M.E. fkye, fike "move restlessly, fidget," which also meant "dally, flirt," and probably is from a general North Sea Gmc. word, cf. M.Du. fokken, Ger. ficken "****," earlier "make quick movements to and fro, flick," still earlier "itch, scratch;" the vulgar sense attested from 16c. This would parallel in sense the usual M.E. slang term for "have sexual intercourse," swive, from O.E. swifan "to move lightly over, sweep" (see swivel). Chronology and phonology rule out Shipley's attempt to derive it from M.E. firk "to press hard, beat." As a noun, it dates from 1680. French foutre and Italian fottere look like the Eng. word but are unrelated, derived rather from L. futuere, which is perhaps from PIE base *bhau(t)- "knock, strike off," extended via a figurative use "from the sexual application of violent action" [Shipley; cf. the sexual slang use of bang, etc.]. Popular and Internet derivations from acronyms (and the "pluck yew" fable) are merely ingenious trifling. The O.E. word was hæman, from ham "dwelling, home," with a sense of "take home, co-habit." **** was outlawed in print in England (by the Obscene Publications Act, 1857) and the U.S. (by the Comstock Act, 1873). The word may have been shunned in print, but it continued in conversation, especially among soldiers during WWI.
"It became so common that an effective way for the soldier to express this emotion was to omit this word. Thus if a sergeant said, 'Get your ----ing rifles!' it was understood as a matter of routine. But if he said 'Get your rifles!' there was an immediate implication of urgency and danger." [John Brophy, "Songs and Slang of the British Soldier: 1914-1918," pub. 1930]
The legal barriers broke down in the 20th century, with the "Ulysses" decision (U.S., 1933) and "Lady Chatterley's Lover" (U.S., 1959; U.K., 1960). Johnson excluded the word, and **** wasn't in a single English language dictionary from 1795 to 1965. "The Penguin Dictionary" broke the taboo in the latter year. Houghton Mifflin followed, in 1969, with "The American Heritage Dictionary," but it also published a "Clean Green" edition without the word, to assure itself access to the lucrative public high school market. The abbreviation F (or eff) probably began as euphemistic, but by 1943 it was being used as a cuss word, too. In 1948, the publishers of "The Naked and the Dead" persuaded Norman Mailer to use the euphemism fug instead. When Mailer later was introduced to Dorothy Parker, she greeted him with, "So you're the man who can't spell '****' " [The quip sometimes is attributed to Tallulah Bankhead]. Hemingway used muck in "For whom the Bell Tolls" (1940). The major breakthrough in publication was James Jones' "From Here to Eternity" (1950), with 50 ***** (down from 258 in the original manuscript). Egyptian legal agreements from the 23rd Dynasty (749-21 B.C.E.) frequently include the phrase, "If you do not obey this decree, may a donkey copulate with you!" [Reinhold Aman, "Maledicta," Summer 1977]. Intensive form mother-****** suggested from 1928; ************* is from 1933. ****-all "nothing" first recorded 1960. Verbal phrase **** up "to ruin, spoil, destroy" first attested c.1916. A widespread group of Slavic words (cf. Pol. pierdolić) can mean both "fornicate" and "make a mistake." Flying **** originally meant "have sex on horseback" and is first attested c.1800 in broadside ballad "New Feats of Horsemanship." For the unkillable urban legend that this word is an acronym of some sort (a fiction traceable on the Internet to 1995 but probably predating that) see here, and also here.
nookie
"sexual activity," 1928, perhaps from Du. neuken "to ****."
frig
"to move about restlessly," c.1460, perhaps a variant of frisk (q.v.). As a euphemism for "to ****" or "to masturbate" it dates from 1598.
fidget (n.)
1674, as the fidget "uneasiness," later the fidgets, from a 16c. v. fidge "move restlessly," from M.E. fiken "to fidget, hasten," from O.N. fikjask "to desire eagerly" (cf. Ger. ficken "to move about briskly;" see ****). The v. fidget is first attested 1672 (implied in fidgetting).
footle
"to trifle," 1892, from dial. footer "to trifle," footy "mean, paltry" (1752), probably from Fr. se foutre "to care nothing," from O.Fr. foutre "to ****," from L. futuere, originally "to strike, thrust" (cf. confute). But O.E.D. derives the Eng. dial. words from foughty (1600), from Du. vochtig or Dan. fugtig "damp, musty;" related to fog.

Answer 2

The only thing about the "F" word that makes it bad is the way it is spoken and used in sentence. I really don't know how it came into existence but it is used in many way. Like so,
1. Do you want to f**k?
2. In-f**king-credible!
3. You sick f**k!
4. That is f**king stupid.
This word is really flexible and be used in a variety of ways, you can add it to almost any sentence or word you want. It shows many emotions like pain, pleasure and hate. That's all I know.

Answer 3

The English invented it when they would battle the French during the Middle Ages. The English would use their Longbow to shoot their arrows at the French. Of course the strongest finger to use to pull the bow back was the middle finger. So the English used to say "F#*k the French".

Answer 4

Nothing is really offensive in of itself! People choose to be offended by things. They arbitrarily set so called standards, then decide how they are going to react when those standards are exceeded. And then, oddly enough, they say things like, " That MAKES me angry!"
The word "Fu*k" doesn't bother me at all, because I choose not to be bothered by it!

Answer 5

Ity is the raw graphicness of the word, the last taboo