Prudery

From this professional and social high point, the swift collapse of Lawrence's reputation after his death in 1830, partly as the result of Victorian prudery, is an interesting matter of social history as much as art history. ❋ Richard Holmes (2010)

Recent studies in India, for example, where sexual prudery is the norm, show that very possibly a majority of girls are sexually molested, often by family members such as cousins, uncles, fathers and brothers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But the Serbs are not only peasants in prudery, they are artists and have some knowledge of handicrafts, so they saw that it was natural for a man cutting out the shape of a man to cut out the true shape of a man; they felt, therefore, no Puritan hatred of the statue, and their peasant thrift told them that it would be wicked waste to throw away a statue well carved in expensive material by an acknowledged master. ❋ Unknown (1969)

He speaks of these matters in the down right way of old times without any appearance of prudery, which is very different from our fastidious treatment of these subjects. ❋ 1872-1939 (1903)

[58] In one of its civilized developments, this ritualized modesty becomes prudery, which is defined by Forel (_Die Sexuelle Frage_, Fifth ed., p. 125) as "codified sexual morality." ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

Dismiss it as "prudery" or call it bullshit if you want, I don't really care. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

"I cannot affect," she says, "a prudery which is not natural to me." ❋ William Cleaver Wilkinson (N/A)

Certainly this accounts for much that is called "prudery" in women, whose repressed and starved instincts revenge themselves in a morbid (mental) preoccupation with the details of vice. ❋ Unknown (1916)

1. That was part of the irony of using the word "prudery". ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

"prudery" began: the great lords yielded on this as on Free Trade. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Next, I pictured a roof tile production line: heavy clay slabs awaiting "fashioning," French skirts hiked up even higher, prudery pitched out the door ... together with those hampersome skirts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But we must cling to out-dated Puritanical prudery at all cost … ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's not about prudery, it's about having enough power to say no. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Repiggies will eventually have to choose whether they value liberty over prudery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is not prudery to believe that there is an adult duty to try to manage information on behalf of the children in one's care. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In Bob Sutton's terrific book, "The No A****** Rule" written that way not out of prudery but to avoid spamblockers, he points to a study that showed that people in meetings where everyone stood took 34 percent less time to make an assigned decision, with decisions that were just as good as those made by groups who were sitting down. ❋ Gretchen Rubin (2011)