Obscenities and euphemisms go as far back as language does. Only a small fraction of all human writing through the ages has been preserved to the present day, most of it not obscene, but cursing can be reasonably assumed to have been prevalent regardless of time, place, language, or culture.

In the case of the English language, the first known recorded instance of the word "fuck" was in county court records from Chester, England, dated 8th December 1310: "A man called 'Roger Fuckbythenavele' was exacted for the first time [the process preliminary to outlawry]."
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