But in private, that fundamental need plays out in more prurient, even sinister ways.
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Victorian-era Europe and America tended to be a bit more prurient about sex.
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Do the explicit videos contained within the research-backed OMGYes really make it more prurient than the myriad sex tip apps littering the iOS store?
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There are far more prurient stories I could share, and far larger, physical, violations, but these smaller anecdotes also keep swimming back up to the surface.
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The viewers keep tweeting about Kit Harington's butt, the actors are pretending to vomit, and we here at Refinery29 are upset that the sex scene wasn't more prurient.
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The more prurient will be happy to hear that this cave comes furnished not only with a star of Mr. Everett's wattage but also with comely naked young things, of both sexes.
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Her sexuality is a source of both the danger and the power, and in the hands of a more prurient director — Harmony Korine or Larry Clark, say — "American Honey" might have been a leering cautionary tale.
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Travis View, a researcher and podcaster who studies the QAnon movement, said The Epoch Times has sanitized the conspiracy theory by pushing Spygate, which drops the wildest and more prurient details of QAnon while retaining its conspiratorial elements.
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Only part of that survives the translation, and the producers have been forced to lop off roughly 15 minutes and soften the more prurient edges (rest easy, Susan Sarandon, your "Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me" remains the standard).
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Furthermore, we strive to release titles that have a numerous positive points beyond the more prurient elements, so while, yes, it's disappointing that a game may have been altered, the title should offer a lot to the player even with that material altered.
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But in broad thematic terms, it's a strong reminder that efforts to see America's past through rose-colored lenses often require ignoring plenty of blemishes, as well as how enterprising if unsavory types have always found a way to monetize society's more prurient appetites.
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Whallen moved to Louisville in the 1870s and became the manager of a vaudeville theater, The Metropolitan. He opened the Buckingham Theater in 1880, a Burlesque, on Jefferson between Third and Fourth Street. Although he tried a few legitimate theater ventures, his wealth came from more prurient interests, and he never had a respectable reputation in Louisville. He came to own several theatres in other cities, including two in Brooklyn, and produced the lavish show, The South Before the War, one of the most successful shows of its era.
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