Cuss Control: The Complete Book on How to Curb Your Cursing, by James O’Connor, will be published in March. According to the Colorado Springs Gazette, O’Connor is “often invited to speak at school assemblies and to conduct workshops for corporations,” and believes “less cursing is the key to a less stressful world.”

In the book’s review of the history of cursing, O’Connor claims that swear words weren’t even allowed into books in the U.S. until 1950. The 1960s and ’70s saw the use of foul language in movies and “gradually the practice seeped into TV through cable channels and then so-called pioneering dramas like NYPD Blue, which began to push the envelope on sex and language as the mainstream became more comfortable with the taboo words,” reports the Gazette. The book should be mandatory reading for writers of prime time series.

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