Given these assumptions, the principal objection to the present laws is that they are an anachronism, a last refuge of Victorian prudery and superstition. The authors of a recent study of American ...

When I was a youngster, all the progressive people were saying, “Why all this prudery? Let us treat sex just as we treat all our other impulses.” I was simple-minded enough to believe they ...

Our generation has rightly put a premium on forthrightness as a kind of revolt against Victorian prudery. But the large question of good taste enters here. One of the ugliest words to be found in ...

Tales such as this also helped disguise the facts of life at a time of prudery, especially in Victorian England. The myth of storks bringing babies is probably rooted in the birds’ migration and ...

Many of them passing easily. This is not a coincidence. Nor is retro prudery a hot new trend. Woman in frumpy clothes looking in window at chastity belt: Stylin! Narrator: Polls consistently show that ...

When their intellectual outlook is narrow, they fall into all sorts of holy excesses, fanaticisms or theopathic absorption, self-torment, prudery, scrupulosity, gullibility, and morbid inability ...

But beyond these issues, Lieberman, like many conservatives, practiced a vaunted morality that amounted to little more than ...

plays off nicely against the film's gently comedic portrayal of English repression and prudery. While George enjoys the company of his open-minded father (Denholm Elliot) in Florence, Lucy yearns ...

Indeed, it was not till late Victorian prudery won the ascendancy that bookmakers ceased to shout the odds in front of the Tavern at Lord's: gambling had always been an important part of the game ...

The reason for this isn't really clear: it could be the supposed catholic prudery or the moral policy of the Polish People's Republic. Kazimierz Michałowski's Akropol (Acropolis) is a harbinger of a ...