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How did our culture get mired in this puritanical paradox?
I have been told that is an old-fashioned, puritanical attitude.
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.
She's right, for example, that sex education now is a bad compromise between puritanical shame and a cold, clinical detachment.
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.