The closest I have ever encountered to people being actually bothered by swearing is people who are bothered by children swearing. Teachers that are shocked th

The closest I have ever encountered to people being actually bothered by swearing is people who are bothered by children swearing. Teachers that are shocked that children casually use profanity in daily conversations between each other, and the like. Even then though, they aren't actually bothered by the word, but rather by the notion of a child using it. I would be disciplined as a child for saying that something was stupid or dumb, but it's not like those words bothered my parents. As an adult, when I talk to them I casually use profanity in a variety of cases, and so do they. Of course if I used profanity directed at them in an insulting manner, they would be upset (as would most people), but that is a reaction to an insult, not the words that were used for the insult.