prurience

• Yet the power of Darger's art doesn't lie in prurience, or even in the voyeuristic sense of looking upon the work of someone who, almost certainly, would have been frightened and angered by our attention. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
• It gave me a hopeful notion of the said taste, certainly; and often and often I groaned in spirit over the temper of my own class, which not only submitted to, but demanded such one-sided bigotry, prurience, and ferocity, from those who set up as its guides and teachers. —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
• Mentally—prurience is one of life's cheapest pleasures—I compared her to the clientele of the Paradise Dance Hall. —  EQMM,January2006
• He also despised himself for the prurience that had persuaded him to come to this breakfast, then he shuddered as the door from the Press Yard opened. —  Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell
• That amazing mixture of sententious moralities, of prurience, and of mawkish sentiment, became the rage of the Town. —  Henry Fielding: A Memoir

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