Word: prude
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tortured frustration without being able to keep pace with an older woman. This relationship and Dave’s reaction to it, pose the pertinent modern question: do men need to serve as the providers in order to feel relationship fulfillment? Not to sound like an Amish prude, but Rafi and Dave’s sex life takes up too much screen time. While Thurman and Greenberg do have fabulous on-screen chemistry, watching their sexcapades all the flipping time gets old really quickly. Most of Rafi and Dave’s relationship screen time is spent having sex, walking...
...second youngest son, Archie—Class of 1917—was every roommate’s worst nightmare. “[At Harvard] he was a prude and a snitch, notorious for turning in students who enlivened their quarters with strong drink and sportive women,” O’Toole writes...
...feminist travel memoir Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures, edited by Jennifer Leo. Indicative of the tone of the collection, titles for the writers’ narratives range from the angsty feminist “Pissed off in Nepal” to the sexually naive “Prude in Patpong.” One woman told of downing tequila shots until dawn with dreadlocked Aboriginals in the Outback while others recount less unconventional tales of European vacations and camping trips. Writer Lori Mayfield discusses diarrhea on safari, while Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth instructs readers on the ideal disposal...
...people’s being flattened in Wal-Mart parking lots to Increase Mather, Will’s indictment of Puritanism is hardly unique. In section and dining hall discussions, “Puritan” may be understood as shorthand for “obsolete, sexually repressed, joyless prude.” It is one of Harvard’s milder ironies that vilifying Puritans has become something of a pastime at the College that was once a cradle of the Puritan orthodoxy. In October, on this very page, for instance, Joe P. Flood quoted Ambrose Bierce?...
...don’t want to seem like some prude who hates or fears sex and the female body. I think it is important to encourage alternative expressions of female empowerment. Wearing a bikini can be liberating. But the same can be said about donning a veil...