Words similar to prurience

Example sentences for: prurience

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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.
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.