1. Surely, they feel, youthful vigour should outgun out-of-date prudery.

2. I am convinced that Victorian prudery was much to blame for this, and modern treatment might have much ameliorated it.

3. For those raised in the prudery of puritanism or the celibacy-conscious preoccupations of Catholicism this ran against the grain.

4. A woman of artifice and prudery.

5. Prudery is a demi-virtue and a demi-vice.

6. Joe wondered whether their prudery would ruin things, or add even more hilarity.

7. In some cultures it is not prudery that leads them to discourage men from looking at pornography.

8. Unfortunately, because of prudery and general historical ignorance, these epidemiological basics had been widely forgotten when AIDS made its appearance in the 1980's.

9. The paper was called: Crudity, Prudery, And Treachery: Translating Sex in the Song of Songs.

10. Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

11. A single incident suggests a great deal about Hennepinhis prudery, his belligerence, his sensitivity.

12. Some feminists even claim that pornography can empower women by loosening them from the shackles of social prudery and restrictions.

13. The'Eastern'Mark Twain can be delicate to the point of prudery.

14. It's 24-year-old Guo Jingming, a pop idol whose cross-dressing[], image-obsessed persona has made him a sensation in a country where the Communist dictatorship advocates prudery and heterosexuality.

15. We think of it as a time of buttoned-up prudery and repression — and it was — but loosen the corset of 1860s England and out spills the kink.

16. Despite the dramatic title, Mr. Pyles is not sure the change in meaning was intentional or even about prudery.