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How did our culture get mired in this puritanical paradox?
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.
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.
It's the most jittery of periods, both exhibitionistic and paranoid, and David Berkowitz--the self-proclaimed Son of Sam--emerges from the ocean of decadence like a toxic monster, a puritanical avenger.
I have been told that is an old-fashioned, puritanical attitude.