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A pious Muslim, puritanical in both clothes and personal tastes, he banished music from the court and burned the portraits of princes as breaches of the Islamic taboo on graven images.
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.
I have been told that is an old-fashioned, puritanical attitude.
His childhood on his family's sylvan 3,500 acre estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., was one of almost unimaginable privilege, yet from the beginning he felt compelled to flatter, cajole, and even engage in abject self-criticism if that's what it took to get his way, particularly with his puritanical and disapproving father.
Or, put differently, one's views of sexual harassment are inevitably intertwined with one's views of “healthy sexuality,” and, as others have pointed out, the current debate has been framed by the largely puritanical segment of the women's movement.