Word: prudishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kept seeing a phantom light over his bed) and timid to the point of paranoia (he refused any food sent to him as a gift for fear that it was poisoned), he was a compulsive gambler. It was his only vice. His sex life should certainly have appealed to prudish Ruskin, for it did not exist: he shunned women in the fear that they might be witches. But gambling debts led him to churn out hack paintings, with predictable results for his reputation...
...aware of the problem: White House sources say the issue has been raised repeatedly in recent years. Before the Geneva summit in November 1985, the senior White House staff received a National Security Council briefing on the Soviet Union's techniques for electronic surveillance and, for what is a prudish culture, its blatant use of sexual entrapment. The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board has issued at least three reports on the subject and personally briefed Reagan last spring on the vulnerability of the Moscow embassy. But all these initiatives died, White House aides contend, amid bureaucratic sluggishness and even...
...object of greedy curiosity. On the other hand, one may consider this book, 1980s-style, as an advance for the lot of women. We must reason that since Marylyn Monroe's body long ago entered the public domain, an enlightened feminist, such as Steinem, should hardly be prudish about reaping profit (monetary or literary) therein. It stands to reason that if men can gang-rape a woman, women can also gang-rape a woman--it's a free country...
...midst of an all-out campaign to promote condoms. By this week 66 million newspapers and magazines will have carried a drawing of a man and woman with the tag line "Trust is good; condoms are better." The Bonn government is planning explicit TV ads as well. A prudish concern about offending conservative sensibilities, says Dr. Hartmut Meyer of the federal Health Ministry, is now "too dangerous...
Almost all feminists are troubled by pornography. By its very nature it tends to degrade women and treat them as sexual playthings for men. The problem: how to take an effective stance without seeming prudish or giving comfort to the antifeminist right. Gloria Steinem has tried to promote a distinction between pornography, which should be opposed, and erotica, healthy sexual materials marked by mutuality and respect, presumably the kind of material men should be interested in, but usually aren't. Some feminists see porn as repellent but harmless masturbatory material for shut-ins, or as an expression of anxiety...