How do you pull off cursing in your writing?
Mark Manson used the F-Bomb 103 times in Chapter 1 alone.
It's not just about quantity; check out the oscillation of profanity:
It starts slow. The first "fuck" doesn't come until page 3, and it's a lonely fuck, an "iso-fuck" (the only fuck on the page).
But several times, Mark breaks through with a proper "clusterfuck," sometimes including 14 fucks on a single page (almost every other line).
In addition to quantity, there are multiple tenses of fuck (known formally as a polyptoton). We see the word so often, in so many different formats, that we experience "semantic satiation." It sheds it's taboo, becomes re-contextualized, and starts to feel like a normal word.
Takeaway: There's a subtle art to cursing. Don't curse in ways that are cliche and lazy. Don't curse for the sake of cursing. It's a tool for surprise, humor, and release. Whether you use it once per essay, once per page, or every other line, be intentional.