Words similar to prurience

Example sentences for: prurience

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It is not clear whether this is an example of prudery or of prurience, which has been exemplified by such new-editor innovations as the magazine's long excerpt from The Story of O and a cover featuring a man's crotch.
Today's palaver palette offers Frank Rich excoriating Beltway pundits, Gene McCarthy arguing that special prosecutors are inherently anti-democratic, Maureen Dowd mitigating the presidential prurience with a sexual ineptness defense and an Alabama reporter's discussing what a nice scandal break folks down his way got by being clobbered by Hurricane Georges.