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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.
As a portrait of the artist, it's puritanical crap.
I have been told that is an old-fashioned, puritanical attitude.
She has a puritanical sensibility.
So, unless I have missed a range of expressions, the conclusion one can draw from the above is that the language we use to describe the initial attempts to establish sexual relations is either puritanical, or hostile, or frivolous, or ambiguous, hardly the range one would expect in an open, sexually healthy, egalitarian society.