The Death of Profanity

There has been a trend for years for more and more profanity to enter casual conversation. When I was a teenager, I remember hearing profanity only very occasionally. When you did hear it, it caught your attention. Profanity is almost used as punctuation and an all-around adjective these days. My question is: what do we now use as profanity? What do we use as an emphasis? I suspect that profanity has ceased to be very useful any more in its traditional sense. It no longer serves as an indicator of strong emotion or a disturbance.

Pity.