prudish

• “Hilarious Ad About Dirty, Dirty Money (kinda NSFW) (WARNING: Not meant for kids, or for adult viewing while in prudish work environments).”

  Boing Boing

• “BLOOM: Yes, he is called prudish for considering it a crime for a 43 - year-old man to have sex with a 13-year-old girl.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2009

• “He was religious and prudish, which is one of the main reasons why the novels of his era do not feature any sex.”

  December 2004

• “Bernarda had arrived in Barcelona shortly after the war, fleeing from poverty and from a father who on a good day would beat her up and tell her she was stupid, ugly, and a slut, and on a bad one would corner her in the pigsty, drunk, and fondle her until she sobbed with terror - at which point he'd let her go, calling her prudish and stuck up, like her mother.”

  The Shadow of the Wind

• “(I put the perverse in quotations because I fear to be called prudish by Freudians.)”

  The Foundations of Personality

• “And, most definitely, there is the looking glass trained on an era always described as prudish and restrained -- a welcome revelation that Victorian values may have plagued society at large, but couldn't entirely penetrate life behind closed doors. the controversy Kinsey's work is plagued with.”

  Cinematical

• “Or has everyone become so intoxicated by the current cultural Kool-Aid that we have to fear the stigma of being labeled "prudish," or "uncool," if we question whether our girls and boys should grow up thinking that violent sexual exploitation and domination of women is the 21st century norm?”

  The Huffington Post: What's Next From Lady Gaga, a Snuff Film?

• “The sociology of "prudish" behavior within families is too lengthy for this post.”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “I know that by the rest of the world's standards we are 'prudish' when it comes to sexuality.”

  Sex on TV Equals Teens in Bed

• “Feminist author Germaine Greer declared the show "prudish," while a columnist for The Observer waxed lyrical over the traditional household duties it celebrates, like the "mournful, almost Shakespearean dragging of the vacuum cleaner around, as if waltzing with a dead body.”

  Newsweek: TELEVISION: SEX AND THE SUBURBS

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