It’s absolutely fine to write “sex” in full on Mumsnet.

[CurlewKate]

Just that.

It's fine to write fuck as well.

It is the 'one with the swearing' after all. I can't bear people using the words, but not spelling them. Who exactly are you offending or protecting?

Was coming to say the same things as MrsTerryPratchett!

Also cunt.

Appreciate some people don't like the word, but sometimes there is no better word to describe certain people.

People using asterisks in swear words so you get random sections of bold is so annoying to read as well.

It’s also fine to call a cunt a cunt if you need to.

Yes. I won’t use the c word in any circumstances, but people are free to use it on here if they want to.

Also “rape”.

I think some of it is conditioning from other social media. A lot of people seem to type in the way people speak on social media based on what they think affects the algorithm. So grape instead of rape. Unalive instead of dead, sewer slide instead of suicide, schmex instead of sex, pdf is read if peadophile, etc.

I have dyslexica, dyscalculia and rheumatoid arthritis. It takes a lot of effort to not lose my place when typing, takes me long enough to type normally without having to work out which mart of my phone keyboard has the hashtag and symbols, and then also having to count random symbols to make sure I’ve got the right amount of characters for the swear word I want.

I’ll just call a cunt a cunt.

Yeah I always find it amusing that anyone would think the word 'sex' too controversial and uncouth to be typed out in full.

I like that we can swear on here. There are too many cunts being described on here for it to be reasonable for the word to have to be edited!

There's a lot of this on Instagram. I'm not an expert but I think it's related to monetisation on social media platforms.

But only on the sex topic. Only perverts (men) want to have sex or talk about it.

In my experience people can and do say what the fuck they like.

Hear hear. Something terribly twee about asterisks. I like to see profanities in full too. Especially cunt.

Sorry? Oh god, you’re not one of this bizarre new crop of “You’re all misandrists” posters, are you?

No I was taking the piss. I've never seen a post about sex on here where the OP wasn't accused of being man or a pervert.

But for the love of god DON’T use the P word!!

Instant deletion of post.

Sex
Fuck
Cunt
Dead
Rape

Are all good, but one mention of a specific child's footwear and BANG! Post deleted ;)

I don’t think that’s quite right. 😳. I’m neither and I like sex. 😂