FUCK REDUX: The True Story about "The Immortalization of Fuck"

This Fuck is for you… and you… and especially for you…

Let me share with you the colorful and entertaining history of the word “Fuck” according to John Franklin—that would be me, a descendant of Benjamin Franklin. Yes, that Ben Franklin.

I explain how my 1972 filing for copyright protection was the first time the Library of Congress granted a copyright for an essay with the word "fuck" in the title. Throughout the 1970s and into the early ‘80s, “The Immortalization of Fuck” was one of the most popular X-rated essays.

My profiting from legally selling fucks was the direct result of a gentlemen’s wager tossed out by a colleague as a unique, creative marketing challenge. My masterful solution came with the recalled quote by Ben Franklin, “Of two things you can be certain; death and taxes.” Frankly Ben overlooked the ongoing certainty of folks’ eternal interest in fucks and fucking—as connecting fuckers and fuckees merrily makes the world go around.

In addition to explaining the ramifications of the wager, the Fuck Redux ebook includes several humorous spinoff stories revolving around this interesting and versatile word—like successfully overcoming problems sending a Western Union telegram to a mainstream publisher, and the nasty phone call from my father upon his discovery of the F-word essay. And then there was the brazen foxy cowgirl who boldly asked me for a fuck.

The ebook second edition is approximately 16,000 words all about the fabulous word “Fuck” for a mere three bucks to download it—which is befitting because the original essays with 305 words sold for three bucks, or two fucks for five bucks. Indeed, a great deal in any decade!!!

Thanks for your fucking consideration of my shameless ebook pitch for, FUCK REDUX: The True Story about “The Immortalization of Fuck,” available for instant downloading and your reading enjoyment from the Amazon Kindle and the B&N Nook ebookstores.

Enjoy often… John

TABLE OF CONTENTS

An Introduction of sorts
As if FUCK really needs a fucking introduction!!!

Chapter 1
The Creative Challenge
The fucking incentive was to win a wager.

Chapter 2
Ben Franklin’s Farting Essay
Perhaps Ben’s most popular but least publicized essay.

Chapter 3
“The Immortalization of Fuck” Essay
The bet winning 305 word essay all about the word Fuck.

Chapter 4
My Father’s Phone Call
The shocking revelation that I indeed wrote the essay.

Chapter 5
The Whole Sex Catalogue
Almost an infringement of my fucking copyright on “Fuck.”

Chapter 6
George Carlin’s Favorite Word
By George ‘twas a inspiration for George!!!

Chapter 7
The Profane that Inflames
“Hate” is an obscene word that does harm to humankind.

Chapter 8
Fuck Preceded the Acronym FUCK
FUCK ain’t no fucking acronym—it’s a whole word!!!

Chapter 9
Fuck the Censors
Oh the shame of protecting us from ourselves.

Chapter 10
A Fuckless Speech about Fuck
Some would say this was an impossible feat to pull off.

Chapter 11
The Foxy Cowgirl Wanted a Fuck
The want of a Fuck put me in harm’s way.

Chapter 12
Enjoying being Physical
Society’s shameful gravity screwed the fun out of fucking.

Chapter 13
Knowledge is Power
Enjoying fucking was lost in the quest for enlightenment.

Chapter 14
“What the fuck… ???”
Fighting fucks up fucking and kills it dead.

Chapter 15
“Unfucking”
Amending when mending ways can be done.

Chapter 16
Nasty Fucking Indulgences
The original get-out-of-jail-free card—prepaid sinning.

Chapter 17
Sex Wars
Such an abusive waste of human potential.

Chapter 18
Making Love Making
Love graces fucking with meaning—so to speak.

Chapter 19
Controlling the Fire
Changing blissful fucking to blessed fucking.

Chapter 20
Erotica—Pornography—Romance
The blissfully good, the nasty bad, and the well scripted!!!

Chapter 21
Go the F * * K to Sleep
Over a million orders for this adult bedtime storybook.

Chapter 22
Fuck through the Millenniums
The regenerated growth of the basic freedoms.