Profanity in Novels

There was a time when just about every novel I read had profanity; some of them had quite a bit of it. So when I wrote the first draft of Choices, I set out to write like the authors whose books I read at that time, and used profanity. And I used a lot of it. After all, there are a lot of teens who use bad language, I told myself. And the novels I read were selling pretty good, so assuming there were a whole lot of readers out there who wanted profanity in the books they bought, that's what I tr