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Amazing events were enacted in the minds of readers, conjured by these suggestive qualifiers: virgins dreamt of knights-at-arms on white chargers; dirty old men elaborated prurient extravagances.
It is the prurient prosecutor who imposed his Puritanical moralism on a sexually liberated if somewhat confused woman--a man who held her against her will, denied her the right to call her lawyer, harassed her mother and brother, flagrantly violated her constitutional rights.
"They rented two rooms, but occupied just one--and hardly ever left it," smirks the Enquirer . While Keeping Tabs was particularly fond of the Enquirer headline announcing that Cameron Diaz "Likes Loud Sex & Hates Matt Dillon," she was duly impressed that the Globe 's prurient interests managed to extend even to the great beyond.
"Once the members of the judiciary committee have examined the text [of the Starr report], in all its shocking and prurient detail," Evans-Pritchard wrote, "they will acknowledge that the President is a borderline sociopath who must be removed at once."
A terrible sense of public relations, I certainly agree with you there, but blaming the Clinton spin machine for that insanely prurient report is something of a stretch.