Word: pruriently
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...just tried reading the misty message of the Supreme Court and has ruled that Candy, the 1964 novel, is not obscene. The Pennsylvania court noted that Candy was not "utterly without redeeming social importance." Nor did it think that the book's dominant theme necessarily appealed to a prurient interest. Its most interesting finding was that having been ordered by the Supreme Court to judge the book in the light of contemporary community standards, it was impressed by the fact that the book was a bestseller. Its conclusion, therefore, seemed to be that anything that sells obviously does...
...easy to label Corman a not-too-effective purveyor of hippie culture, then dismiss him. But the fact is, he's pimping for the hippies and their prurient elders. The hippies can look at Corman's motorcyclists as social outcasts who never get a chance, who always have to keep moving. They can honor Hell's Angels as champions of freedom. The elders can point to the Angels' intolerance toward anybody outside the gang, their destructiveness, their eager brutality; they won't live and let live...
...author's solution to sexual crime is a simple one: lock up all the dirty books, and allow only the "qualified" to read them. Says she: "I am inclined to think that it is less good to make things easy for the prurient than to make him work a little harder for his gratification...
...terms of Section 28, Sanders is probably right. As long as the record is not blatantly prurient, the blunt words and sexual allusions have no bearing on its legal status. In a 1962 decision which vindicated Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled: "It was not relevant that the book at many places was repulsive, vulgar, or grossly offensive in use of four-letter words and in detailed and coarse statement of sexual episodes...
Also much more sex and nudity. But in the new films, sex is rarely prurient. If it is sometimes startlingly explicit, it is nevertheless unself-conscious and often functional to the plot?or what plot there is. It is also unstereotyped. People make love on the couch (Georgy Girl), in cars (Alfie), and in a susurrous sea of blue backdrop paper (Blow-Up). And the girl hardly ever waits any more to be asked; she communicates sex like a banner headline...