Pfah, name me a single child capable of reading who hasn't already heard the F-word used many times before, and knows full-well that it's a "grown-up" word.
Children are far more adaptable than people give them credit for. By age 6 they pretty much know at least half the full range of profanities commonly used in society, and by age 3 they learned to know not to use such words in ear-shot of authority figures when they innocently repeated such words where their parents could hear them. Our daughter learned the F-word from merely being in society at age 3, and it was at that age that we explained to her that it was not a nice word for little people to repeat.
If we want to bring sex and children into the debate, then ponder why is sexual nudity treated with such "shock and horror" when children see it every single day when they take their own clothes off, yet images of extreme violence are far harder to shield children from, and in my experience as a father, it is far more difficult to explain to a young child about extreme violence, than it is to explain something as obvious to most children that people have bodies much like they do.
I know my children well enough that if I had to choose between exposing them to nudity, as opposed to images of the casualties of US-led wars in foreign countries, I'd feel a lot more comfortable with the nudity as children pretty much think little of it.
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