Word: prudishly
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Professor Wrangham weighed in on his feelings about contemporary sexual mores and the troubled life of Alfred Kinsey. For Wrangham, “America nowadays is more prudish in more ways than it was 20 years ago with AIDS...
...Paris. Since its November release Eiffel has drawn more than 2.2 million viewers eager to see teen idols dealing with sexuality, peer pressure and other coming-of-age themes-little of which were allowed in the world's most populous Muslim nation's film industry until the fall of prudish President Suharto...
...show challenges the outdated double standard that has allowed men to be promiscuous but has expected young women to remain sexually passive and prudish. But to achieve this, the female characters employ the same commitment-shy, sexually impersonal behavior that men have been traditionally criticized for displaying. Due to their aversion to intimacy, they tend to consider the men in their lives as disposable as their latest fashion trends. Samantha’s brazen avocation of the “zipless screw” and Carrie’s insensitive decision to put a passionate fling above a serious relationship...
...that it understands their partying, respects their desire to drink and above all, will not be disheartened—or draconian—when students continue to party hard, because they will. Instead, the committee should ensure that student health is jeopardized neither by state law nor by a prudish disdain for student habits. The pursuit of drunkenness, like it or not, is here to stay. But health crises that lead to tragedies like Scott Kruger’s, the MIT first-year who drank himself to death in 1997, can be avoided through the committee’s care...
...once again, these are not considerations that most politicians and prudish public health missionaries have taken because this ban is not really about helping bar employees but about enforcing a way of life. A certain group of people, whether they be Starbucks swilling gym-junkie yuppies or the spiritual heirs of 1920s Prohibitionists, would like to see smoking banished from their gated kingdom. Their hand has been tipped by the most notorious of their lot, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has repeatedly called smokers “stupid” and “crazy...