Prurience

As we might expect, prurience is to the fore; the report is quite graphic in its descriptions, so please exercise caution because it may be triggering ❋ Unknown (2008)

Fox News Porn is a collection of raunchy outtakes from the Fox "News" Network, where hypocritical prigs like Bill O'Reilly revel in prurience while condemning it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

David Aaronovitch: Our prurience is a disgrace, not the porn films ❋ Unknown (2009)

Besides this being a showing up of the critics' own prurience which is really just an ingrown Puritanism it's also a display of their literal-mindedness. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But it often leads to a kind of prurience as unpleasant as the obsession with sex of those who have never had sexual experience. ❋ Bergonzi, Bernard (1964)

Zanuck characterized the early-'30s move toward prurience as a crusade of its own. ❋ Bruce Bennett (2011)

Though it may seem far-fetched this sunny Saturday morning, future historians could judge that the wives and girlfriends, so long the objects of prurience and mockery, were indirectly the catalyst of a significant realignment. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Labels: electronic media (benefits and necessity of switching off), journalism (prurience), television (intolerability of) ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's as if Olds has seen prurience, child molestation, and incest in the phenomenal world, and now can't wait to reduce it to an archeology of fantasy and fetish in her poetry, so that the threat of things going haywire in the cozy domestic realm is defused, for us and her. ❋ Anis Shivani (2011)

The expression on Rajbir's face, what Amrita can see through his beard, is one of gleeful prurience—Rajbir knows that after the number these women are his to do with as he pleases—Rajbir pleases much—he elongates the O in snOwing and blOwing to an uncomfortable degree and Amrita shivers in the dusty snow. ❋ Erik Wennermark (2011)

The Mail, with its suburban, curtain-twitching prurience, is in some respects worse than Murdoch's tabloids, which are at least fairly honest about their mission to titillate. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And so by making these assertions, they drag in the cold specters of prurience and judgment and demand that we view these unarguably beautiful things – playful joy being derived from an act of nurture, the determination of two hearts to be joined in committed love – through a chilly hateful fog. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Labels: electronic media (benefits and necessity of switching off), journalism (prurience), television (intolerability of) 1 comments: tristan said ... well done! mine went to the scrap yard in 1995 ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was indeed "tabloid gold" designed to appeal to prurience, and it did entail a significant intrusion on the claimant's private life. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A decade ago, Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, two grandees of American journalism, warned of a crisis: The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal had revealed a news media publishing at "warp speed," discarding probity for prurience and embracing a non-stop news cycle of aggression, allegation and assertion where once facts were checked and sources confirmed before ministering scandal to the public. ❋ Trevor Butterworth (2009)