Word: prurient
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...Many a prurient and self-righteous U. S. racing pilot cried: "No wonder the A. A. A. socked him with a spanner! No Roumanian wop-frog who's livin' with a red-headed Jewess in Paris while his morganatic wife sues him for 10 million francs and his real wife is Princess Helen of Greece, should ought to be allowed in an American garage. I'll say his name is 'Morry Turp'! Moral Turpitude is right...
Among the noses without the glass door of the courtroom, "Sex Viri" was whispered often and with lewd import. To the prurient not even a Latin numeral is pure. The "Six Men" of Cambridge were wronged. Meanwhile the five judges at London decided that the "Sex Viri" had wronged Dr. Haldane. They sustained his appeal and rendered a verdict which is expected to create the legal precedent that the private life of a university man shall be considered as of no relation to his scholastic position...
...explanation of the great vogue of these periodicals is simple enough. The relaxation and reaction from prurient Victorian prudery has extended to the masses. The post-war restlessness completed the swing and it was accentuated by returning soldiers who had come into touch with French pornographic writing. Formerly, sex in literature was more or less restricted to intellectuals. Save for an occasional surreptitious exception the literature of the multitudes was as chaste as an Horatio Alger Jr. or a Mary Jane Holmes could make it. Who outside the intelligentsia read Beardsley, Beaudelaise, or could understand the more esoteric work...
...must help us. You must gently steer the blessed-fool reading public away from puffery and quackery and prurient prudery. You must stand for good English. Not for me, you understand. I am settled, fixed and determined in my way, forward I hope, but not adrift. But I love the venturers who are seeking something real and better...
Puffery and quackery and prurient prudery...