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...obvious pandering to the prurient prudery of the American movie-going public, the brazen commercialization of a morbid interest in social disease and sex delinquency, found in a long line of "For Adults Only" pictures, from "Is Your Daughter Safe" of years ago, to the current "Road to Ruin," is a revolting commentary on the rule of King Dollar. The advertising of such films is calculated to make the adolescent-minded public believe that fornication and other assorted lecheries are shown in all their nakedness on the screen, gotten past the censors by a thin veneer of hypocritical "educational" advice...
...baiting Butler's prudery over our "disgusting system of commercialized breeding"-is prurient-minded Butler "disgusted" with our selective breeding of bulls to make better meat, and cows to give better milk? And does he think Luther Burbank was "disgusting" in his selective mating to make lovelier flowers, better vegetables, a more beautiful world...
...plot is typical of Lawrence: a struggle between prurient prudishness and primitive purity. Yvette is the younger of two daughters of an English parson. Her mother had run away with another man, is no longer mentioned. Yvette's grandmother has taken her daughter-in-law's place in the household. "She was one of those physically vulgar, clever old bodies who had got her own way all her life by buttering the weaknesses of her men-folk." Yvette hates her grandmother, is discontented with her parochial life, the parochial young men who court her. One day she happens...
...Through its 529 pages prurient persons are searching feverishly for an allusion to the Count's effeminate practices, cause of the matchruptcy. Shrewd, the Button sales department led them in as deep as possible last week with this brand new blurb...
Young Sinners reveals Raymond Guion as a young libertine who regains his wind and his principles in the Adirondacks. Playwright Elmer Harris has made a bid for the prurient trade with a sex lecture more graphic than graceful...